In een interview met ShockTillYouDrop heeft de Australische acteur Joel Edgerton wat meer informatie losgelaten over The Thing, de aankomende prequel op John Carpenters gelijknamige scifi-thriller uit 1982. Edgerton zegt onder meer het volgende:
"Well, it's a prequel and definitely the Norwegian base is modeled on the base you see in the Carpenter film," he told us. "Being a prequel you'll see a lot of tie-ins as to how the base comes to be the way it is in the Carpenter film, being so destroyed, and that evidence you see in the Carpenter film, We'll get a glimpse into that. It's great because you have a bunch of people behind making itEric Newman and Marc (Abraham), the producers at Strike (Entertainment), those guys and Matthijs the director, they have such respect for the original film that they're not trying to do a remake, they're just trying to pay homage to the original and also do the right thing with what I think is a real cool way in to doing that, and revisiting the material."
Het volledige interview kan je hier nalezen.
The Thing prequel uit de startblokken
Geen remake, maar een eerbetoon aan het origineel.