boulifb a écrit:
Les scénaristes sont-ils en manque d'idées ces dernières années?
Remake sur remake...
Je ne sais pas si c'est une remarque très pertinente ici, étant donné que c'est d'un prequel qu'il est question ici et que
The Thing était déjà un remake.
Je copie le trailer, posté par Nemrod :
Ce que je lis sur Wikipedia me rassure un peu :
Citer:
After creating the Dawn of the Dead remake, producers Marc Abraham and Eric Newman began to look through the Universal Studios library to find new properties to work on. Upon finding John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, the two convinced Universal to create a prequel instead of a remake, as they found remaking Carpenter's film would be like "paint(ing) a mustache on the Mona Lisa"[16] Eric Newman explained; "I'd be the first to say no one should ever try to do Jaws again and I certainly wouldn't want to see anyone remake The Exorcist... And we really felt the same way about The Thing. It's a great film. But once we realized there was a new story to tell, with the same characters and the same world, but from a very different point of view, we took it as a challenge. It's the story about the guys who are just ghosts in Carpenter's movie - they're already dead. But having Universal give us a chance to tell their story was irresistible."[17]
In early 2009, Variety reported the launch of a project to film a prequel—possibly following MacReady's brother during the events leading up to the opening moments of the 1982 film—with Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. as director and Ronald D. Moore as writer.[18][19] Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. became involved in the project when his first planned feature film, a zombie movie taking place in Las Vegas written and produced by Zack Snyder called Army of the Dead, was cancelled by the studio three months before production began. Needing to start all over again, he asked his agent to see if there was a The Thing project in development, since Alien and The Thing are his favourite movies.[20] As fan of Carpenter's film, he was interested in the project because, being European himself, he had always wondered what happened at the Norwegian camp.[3] In March 2009, Moore described his script as a "companion piece" to Carpenter's film and "not a remake."[21] "We're telling the story of the Norwegian camp that found the Thing before the Kurt Russell group did," he said.[21] Eric Heisserer was later hired to do a complete rewrite of Moore's script.[22] Heisserer explained that in writing the script, it was necessary for him to research all the information that was revealed about the Norwegian camp from the first film, down to the smallest details, so that it could be incorporated into the prequel in order to create a consistent backstory.[15] The decision was made to name the film the same title as the first film, because the producers felt adding a "colon title" such as Exorcist II: The Heretic had felt less reverential.[3]
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. explained that he created the film not to simply be a horror movie, but to also focus largely on the human drama with the interaction between characters, as the first film had.[23]The director felt that horror movies worked better when time was spent to explore the characters' emotional journeys, allowing the audience to care about them.[24] Mary Elizabeth Winstead insisted that the film would not feature any romantic or sexual elements with her character, as it would be inappropriate considering the tone of the film.[25] Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje said that the film would try to recreate the feeling of paranoia and distrust that the first film had, where the characters can't tell who has been infected by the alien.[26] The filmmakers drew additional inspiration for the film from the original novel Who Goes There?, in making the characters in the film educated scientists as opposed to "blue collar" workers.[3] However, the filmmakers drew no influence from the events of the The Thing video game.[3] The director also drew additional inspiration from the film Alien in creating the film, particularly in regard to casting a female lead,[23] and in the way the alien creatures are filmed by not showing too much of them.[20] Matthijs van Heijningen also cited the films of director Roman Polanski as influence, such as his work on Rosemary's Baby.[24]Actual Norwegian actors were cast in the film to play the Norwegian characters,[3] and the director allowed the actors to improvise elements different to what was scripted when they felt it was appropriate, such as a scene where the characters sing a Norwegian folk song.[27][24][25] Many scenes involving characters speaking Norwegian will be subtitled,[28] and the language barrier between them and the English speaking characters is exploited to add to the film's feeling of paranoia.[29] Director Matthijs van Heijningen said that the film will show the alien creature in its “pure form”, as it was discovered in its ship by the Norwegians; however, it is not revealed whether this is the creature's original form or the form of another creature it had assimilated.[5] John Carpenter wished to have a cameo appearance in the film, but scheduling conflicts prevented this.[3]
Au passage, il y a une très chouette nouvelle qui raconte les évènements du premier film du point de vue du monstre :
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