Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton have joined the cast of Universal’s prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter remake of Howard Hawks’ film, The Thing from Another World… The film was written by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) and Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street remake) and will be directed by Matthijs Van Heijningen.

Production for The Thing is slated to begin March 15th, 2010 in Toronto.

“Winstead will play a Ph.D. candidate who joins a Norwegian research team in Antarctica after it discovers an alien ship in the ice. When a trapped organism is freed and begins a series of attacks, she is forced to team with a blue-collar mercenary helicopter pilot (Edgerton) to stop the rampage.” — This article was plagiarized from Screerant.com

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The Thing Prequel Gets its First Victims

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