We’ve got our hands on the first pictures of the Thing, the upcoming prequel to john Carpenter’s The Thing:

The Thing Trailer

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The new Thing movie is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen and is starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Lloyd Walker, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The film takes place in Antarctica at a Norwegian base where scientists have stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice…

The Thing will hit theaters on April 29, 2011.
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