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| The Thing | |
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| Credits | |
| Title: | The Thing |
| Director: | Matthijs van Heijningen |
| Writers: | Eric Heisserer |
| Producers: | J. Miles Dale; David Foster; Gabrielle Neimand; Lawrence Turman; Marc Abraham; Eric Newman |
| Composer: | Marco Beltrami |
| Cinematography: | Michel Abramowicz |
| Editors: | Julian Clarke |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Universal Pictures Morgan Creek Productions |
| Released: | October 11th, 2011 |
| Rating: | R |
| Running time: | 103 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $38,000,000 [1] |
| Gross: | $16,928,670 (US) [2] $31,505,287 (Worldwide) |
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The Thing is an American feature film of the science fiction subgenre with an emphasis on the body horror film trope. It serves as a prequel to the 1982 film The Thing by director John Carpenter. The movie was directed by Matthijs van Heijningen with a screenplay written by Eric Heisserer. It is based on the short story "Who Goes There" by John W. Campbell. It was produced by Universal Pictures and Morgan Creek Productions and released theatrically in the United States on October 11th, 2011.
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- The tagline for this film is "In a place where there is nothing, they found something".
- The Thing (2011) redirects to this page.
- The Thing is loosely based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by author John W. Campbell, Jr., who had written the story under the pen name Don A. Stuart. It was first printed in the August 1938 edition of Astounding Science Fiction magazine.
- Who Goes There? was first adapted into film in 1951 under the title The Thing from Another World by director Christian Nyby. It was later remade by John Carpenter as The Thing in 1982.
- Production on The Thing began on March 15th, 2010. Principal photography concluded on June 17th, 2010. [3]
- This movie was shot in parts of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Some scenes were filmed in British Columbia, and the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton. Studio shots were filmed at Pinewood Toronto Studios in Port Lands, Toronto. [3]
- At its widest release, The Thing was screened in 2,996 theaters. [2]
- The Thing closed out of theaters on November 17th, 2011. At it had been in release for a total of five weeks (35 days). [2]
- The Thing was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Universal Studios on January 31st, 2012. The Blu-ray included a digital download copy of the film as well feature commentary with director Matthijs van Heijningen and producer Eric Newman. [4]
- There are a total of seventeen credited cast members in this film.
- Actor Jonathan Walker is credited as Jonathan Lloyd Walker in this film.
- The primary setting of this film is Antarctica in the year 1982.
- The Thing went into production on the same day that Green Lantern went into production. Both films are science fiction movies that involve Earth-based heroes and alien life forms. That's pretty much where the similarities cease.
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- ↑ IMDB; The Thing (2011); Box Office details.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Box Office Mojo; The Thing (2011); Total Lifetime Grosses; Domestic Summary.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 IMDB; The Thing (2011); Filming & Production.
- ↑ Amazon.com; The Thing (2011); Blu-ray. Special Features; Product details.
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