Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. discusses what a potential sequel to 2011's The Thing starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead could have looked like.
, van Heijningen Jr. explained his ideas for a sequel to 2011’s The Thing, which served as a prequel to’s character] would escape and would be picked up at sea and tries to warn the world at an oil platform near the South Pole. The monster would break loose on the the rig. I liked the oil rig mayhem idea.”, A. Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Lennon, and Keith David. While it received negative reviews at the time of its release and only made $19.
A prequel to The Thing arrived 29 years later. Along with Winstead, the film starred Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The movie received mixed reviews from critics at the time of its release and made $31.5 million at the worldwide box office with a budget of $38 million.Reflecting on how audiences reacted to 2011’s The Thing, van Heijningen Jr.
He continued, “I know this is a debated topic, but looking back, we were caught in a cross-zone where animatronics were old-fashioned and the CGI wasn’t good enough. We made the wrong decision to do it in post-production [when it came to] making the monster design in the computer. I regret that now.”Brandon Schreur has been writing about comics, movies, television shows, and all things pop culture for roughly five years.
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