The prequel (but actually looks like a remake) to 1982’s THE THING is just two weeks away, and Universal Pictures have cranked up the promotional materials. They have officially launched a new website and mobile game to help you get excited for the flick.
The new site simply titled ‘It Will Become You’ allows users to create a 15 second video of themselves, and then add a special effect which will transform them into ‘the Thing’. You can them upload your Scare Video to YouTube, I gave it a shot (sans the YouTube) and it isn’t a bad little number.
The mobile game ‘The Flamethrower’ is available for Apple and Android devices, where ‘users can battle the shape-shifting aliens with flamethrowers in a virtual 360° environment and “infect” themselves using augmented reality app.’ It is free in the marketplaces, sounds interesting, I haven’t been able to give it a crack yet.
Check out ‘It Will Become You’ HERE.
Check out the game for Apple devices HERE, and Android devices HERE.
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.
The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, the thriller is produced by Strike Entertainment’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead).
The cast includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead (below), Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen and Trond Espen Seim. You can see them all in action on October 14th.