Snow, frightened men in beards and a shape-shifting alien. It can only be the trailer for the forthcoming The Thing prequel, which you can see here...
The Thing is being billed as a prequel (or ‘prelude’, to use the words of the movie’s press release) rather than a remake, but there are hints of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece all over Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s take on John W Campbell’s 40s novella, Who Goes There? The sets and cinematography look notably similar, and the murmuring soundtrack sounds remarkably like Ennio Morricone’s work for Carpenter’s earlier film.
And on the subject of music, listen carefully, and you’ll hear what I swear is an excerpt from Norway’s 1980 entry into the Eurovision Song Contest (Sámiid Ædnan by Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta, fact fans). It’s this, I suspect, that causes the shape-shifting alien of the title...
The Thing is being billed as a prequel (or ‘prelude’, to use the words of the movie’s press release) rather than a remake, but there are hints of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece all over Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s take on John W Campbell’s 40s novella, Who Goes There? The sets and cinematography look notably similar, and the murmuring soundtrack sounds remarkably like Ennio Morricone’s work for Carpenter’s earlier film.
And on the subject of music, listen carefully, and you’ll hear what I swear is an excerpt from Norway’s 1980 entry into the Eurovision Song Contest (Sámiid Ædnan by Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta, fact fans). It’s this, I suspect, that causes the shape-shifting alien of the title...
- 7/14/2011
- Den of Geek
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