Two Mary Elizabeth Winstead articles in one day? A mighty lucky boy am I!
On October 14th, the lovely Ms. Winstead leads a band of Antarctic-set scientists in THE THING, from which we have a pair of new clips below. As in the facsimile of the facsimile (post-modernism anyone?), you can’t sense the mounting dead and tension as the group tries to suss who among them is a shape-shifting alien. Hey look, one of those Nordic Vikings is trying to upstage Kurt Russell’s beard!
Also featuring Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen and Trond Espen Seim, the story takes place in:
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when a creature is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads among a group of researchers as they encounter something inhuman that has the ability to turn itself into an exact replica of any living being.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a creature buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the ice eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the thing from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
Enjoy the new clips!