i09 conducted as interview with Eric Heisserer, the author of the upcoming prequel to The Thing. He goes into a lot of detail about the thought process of how the prequel was drafted, putting to rest some rumors about the story's format. First and foremost, there are no flashbacks. The new film will deal directly the Norwegian camp that first encountered the shapeshifting alien creature and won't be bookended by any post-original Thing moments.
Fans of the original will be excited to learn that original 1982 film was analyzed frame by frame and that very specific details -- down to the placement of blood splatters -- was recreated in a way that it will make perfect sense watching both movies in chronological order. A lot of films don't have continuity that great within themselves, let alone prequels that come along thirty years later. An added bonus to the entire piece, Heisserer revealed that the new Thing will avoid non-practical effects whenever possible.
The new prequel will be produced by the Nordic producer-turned-director Matthijs van Heijningen. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton are pegged to star in the film, which is a nice turn of events considering that both actors are relative unknowns. Joel Edgerton certainly looks Northlander enough to play one of the doomed Norwegian scientists who discover the space parasite and fail to kill it before it heads over to Kurt Russell and the American camp.
No release date has been announced yet, but production began last month. Here's to a long-overdue story that should excite any Thing fan!
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