{"id":7135,"date":"2010-02-08T01:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:38:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:38:55","slug":"winstead-and-edgerton-to-battle-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/08\/winstead-and-edgerton-to-battle-the-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Winstead And Edgerton To Battle THE THING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ThingFromAnotherWorldLobbyCard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7137\" title=\"ThingFromAnotherWorldLobbyCard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ThingFromAnotherWorldLobbyCard-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton have been cast as the leads in Universal&#8217;s most recent version of <strong>The Thing<\/strong>. Winstead will play a scientists who journeys to an Antarctic research station after an alien space craft is discovered under the ice. Edgerton will play a helicopter pilot who teams with Winstead to stop the murderous alien who is freed from frozen captivity.<\/p>\n<p>With director Matthijs Van Heijningen in charge, this will be the third time that John W. Campbell Jr.&#8217;s classic novella <em>Who Goes There?<\/em> has been filmed. The first was as 1951 <strong>The Thing From Another World<\/strong>. With credited direction by Christian Nyby, though it is probably that producer Howard Hawks had a strong hand in the process, the movie worked as a thriller and as an allegory for Cold War fears of communism. John Carpenter&#8217;s 1982 remake, with title shortened to just <strong>The Thing<\/strong>, may not have had any political parallels in its screenplay, but it certainly amped up the horror quotient, making it a classic in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Will a third time be a charm as well for this new version? Filming starts on March 15 in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/blogs\/heat-vision\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton have been cast as the leads in Universal&#8217;s most recent version of The Thing. Winstead will play a scientists who journeys to an Antarctic research station after an alien <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/08\/winstead-and-edgerton-to-battle-the-thing\/\" title=\"Winstead And Edgerton To Battle THE THING\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[21,3,2497,2496,8,887,888],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-casting","9":"tag-coming-soon","10":"tag-joel-edgerton","11":"tag-mary-elizabeth-winstead","12":"tag-remake","13":"tag-the-thing","14":"tag-the-thing-from-another-world"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}