The Thing (2011 film)
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| Directed by | Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. |
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| Written by | Eric Heisserer |
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Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell |
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| Music by | Marco Beltrami |
| Cinematography | Michel Abramowicz |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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103 minutes |
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| Language | English Norwegian |
| Budget | $38 million |
| Box office | $27.4 million |
| The Thing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Marco Beltrami | |
| Released | October 11, 2011 |
| Genre | Film score |
| Length | 55:31 |
| Label | Varèse Sarabande |
The Thing (also known as The Thing: The Beginning or The Thing Awakens) is a 2011 science-fiction horror film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and written by Eric Heisserer based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. It is a prequel to the 1982 film of the same name by John Carpenter, which was itself a remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film by Howard Hawks titled The Thing From Another World. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric Christian Olsen. They are part of a team of Norwegian and American scientists who discover an alien buried deep in the ice of Antarctica, realizing too late that it is still alive.
In 1982, an alien spacecraft is discovered beneath the Antarctic ice by a team from a Norwegian research base: Edvard (Trond Espen Seim), Jonas (Kristofer Hivju), Olav (Jan Gunnar Røise), Karl (Carsten Bjørnlund), Juliette (Kim Bubbs), Lars (Jørgen Langhelle), Henrik (Jo Adrian Haavind), Colin (Jonathan Lloyd Walker), and Peder (Stig Henrik Hoff). Columbia University paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is recruited by Dr. Sander Halvorson (Ulrich Thomsen) and his assistant Adam Finch (Eric Christian Olsen) to investigate the discovery.
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