Australian actor Joel Edgerton has signed up to play helicopter pilot Sam Carter in the upcoming prequel to John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”
Edgerton, best known stateside for playing Owen Lars in “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,” told www.moviehole.net “Anyone who is a big fan of the John Carpenter version of “The Thing” knows that it starts on the American base station. But the investigation of where the Thing has come from leads us to know something very bad has happened at the Norwegian base station and the prequel centers itself around there and what happened pre-Kurt Russell”.
“The Thing,” begins filming in Vancouver later this year and is scheduled for a 2011 release, will be directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and will co-star Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“Live Free or Die Hard”).
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The prequel is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr-and also starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“Live Free or Die Hard”), will shoot in Vancouver later this year.
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