Universal has just debuted the first trailer for The Thing as well as sent over the six new images you can view in the slideshow above or in our gallery right here along with one additional image and the poster for the flick.
The film is being described as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name, which itself was based on John W. Campbell, Jr.’s short story and the 1951 film produced by Howard Hawks of a shape-shifting alien that terrorizes a team of scientists in Antarctica. This prequel story takes place at an Antarctica research site where an alien spacecraft is found. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen and Trond Espen Seim and is directed by first time feature helmer Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
You can check out the trailer directly below as well as a more in-depth synopsis. The film is set to hit theaters on October 14.
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 an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
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 an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the alien 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).
