"THINGS" Heating up on Universal's THE THING Prequel
The promotion machine is finally churning full speed on the Universal prequel to John Carpenter’s 1981 THE THING entitled THE THING…..genius title don’t you THING-K? Universal has released a picture of star Joel Edgerton in action, flame thrower and all! The only thing blatantly missing is Kurt Russell’s caveman beard and luxuriously bodacious head of hair!...













Last year at the Fright Night Festival in Louisville, KY, Rodger Corman was the Guest of Honor. Having attended it in 2007 and again last year, I can say how the show has grown. Last year would be a hard one to top, well just getting AC would make it a lot better than last year, but this year already seems to already be outdoing last year’s show...
We announced just a week ago that Universal's THE THING prequel was in set back mode as the original release date (April 29th, 2011) was taken off the schedule. We were left with a huge question mark as to when the prequel would see the light of day. Today we the answer and the date is an interesting one...
What's the setback you ask? How about possibly not getting released this year. Yeah, pretty big isn't it? The prequel to John Carpenter's cult classic horror film THE THING was all set and ready for an April 29th, 2011 release date... 
With Hollywood's recent love affair for 3D owed in part to the success of the once dying "Final Destination" franchise, it was no surprise when a "Finaller" Destination was announced this past March to obviously be shot in 3D as well...
Making a prequel to John Carpenter's classic 


