R.J. MacReady
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The Thing (1982) was never intended to have a prequel, but The Thing (2011) was always intended to be seen after the earlier movie. To put it another way, The Thing (1982) was never supposed to be a sequel, and The Thing (2011) was never meant to turn the earlier film into a sequel.
Aug 13, 2013 · The original Thing was based upon a book called 'Who Goes There?' by John W. Campbell. Great story, look it up! There are three movie adaptions... The Thing From Another Planet ('59?) The Thing by John Carpenter ('82) And the 2011 Thing. The John Carpenter version is pretty good adaption, considering the novella was written in the late 30's.
Jul 9, 2015 · 29. It is very difficult to say with certainty, which is precisely what Carpenter was going for. He didn't want us to know much about who was infected and when it happened. Certainly, the first Thing we see is the Dog-Thing being chased by the Norwegians in the helicopter. The second Thing we see is the seemingly dead, two-headed monstrosity at ...
Jun 19, 2017 · Keith David, the actor who played Childs, is a regular participant and has consistently and emphatically stated that, as far as he is concerned, Childs was not a Thing at the end of the movie. The links in this paragraph are from Sci-Fi/Horror Q&A panels with either Keith David alone, or most of the cast together, and in all of them, David repeats the same basic account:
Sep 30, 2016 · No, that was merely spite. A computer cannot cheat if it's programmed to follow the rules of the game. The entire subplot of the movie is about Chess or at least strategy. During the beginnging; MacReady pours whiskey into the chess games electronics bank at the beginning in wake of a legitimate defeat.
Oct 5, 2015 · 1 Mostly unused concept art and storyboards for Blair-Thing, which Cohen claims is the closest thing we would have seen to the Thing's "true form", if it had made it into the finished film. The concept art comes from the fansite Outpost 31 ; the scanned article pages with the storyboards are from a special issue of Cinemafantastique devoted to the film.
Sep 10, 2015 · Very true, if you recall the scene in the movie where Kate proves that the Thing cannot imitate non-organic material, and thereby rejects it, hence the tooth fillings on the restroom floor and the fractured bone brace with screws outside the body in the embryonic sac inside the first burned Thing after eating its first victim.
Sep 4, 2015 · The horror sci-fi movie The Thing, directed by John Carpenter and released in 1982, is generally regarded as a very good movie in its genre, having been named the scariest movie of all time by the Boston Globe in 2014. Has anyone involved in the film ever tried to explain its disappointing box office performance?
Nov 10, 2015 · THE THING, having been produced on the cusp of a digital universe, is a resolutely all-analog film, without a frame electronically processed. It is somehow fitting that the computers appearing in the movie are both mock ups, non-functioning props made out of bits and pieces, with the video display portion in both cases shot well after principal photography.
Nov 4, 2015 · Windows: Not a Thing (he is later attacked by Palmer-Thing). Nauls: Not a Thing (he is later attacked by Blair-Thing). MacReady: Not a Thing. Copper: Not a Thing (he is later attacked by Norris-Thing); came up with the idea of a blood test; discovered that the blood had been destroyed. Childs: Almost certainly not a Thing.
