RW628 - The Thing Rewatch - The Thing (2011)

 

In this episode of The Thing Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan unthaw some saucers and shifters as they discuss The Thing (2011).

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Due to constant studio interference, director Matthijs van Heijningen had such a negative experience with the film that he claimed to have lost his passion for filmmaking, and retired for nearly a decade. One of the issues was that he had to battle with five or six different studio executives in charge of the project, which made it difficult to make any creative decisions. At one point, production was shut down for a week because Universal wanted the film to be in 3D, and the release was eventually pushed back six months for studio-mandated re-shoots. Although van Heijningen has since made the acclaimed war movie The Forgotten Battle (2020) for Netflix and has also been working on films in Norway, he has since vowed never to work with an American studio again.

The creature effects were filmed primarily with cable-operated animatronic robots on director Matthijs van Heijningen's insistence, since it would improve the performances of the cast if they saw what they had to react to. Computer-generated (CG) images were planned to be added as elements to the animatronics (such as tentacles) if they couldn't be done convincingly. However, due to audience responses from initial test screenings (some reportedly commented that the movie looked too much like an 1980s horror movie), the studio ordered the replacement of most animatronic scenes by full CG models. Creature effects supervisor Alec Gillis would later say that seeing the finished movie gave the special effect team a "post-partum depression.”

According to director Matthijs van Heijningen and screenwriter Eric Heisserer, a different beginning and ending had been originally scripted and partially filmed, which would have shed more light on the Thing's backstory. The prologue would have shown how the alien pilot purposely crashed the ship on Earth, and then committed suicide. Later, an alien in the process of becoming a Thing would exit the ship in order to kill itself by freezing. After the opening, Kate and Sander arrive at the site and enter the unearthed ship, where they find the interior littered with dead aliens, either dismembered, burnt or in a state of transformation. In the central area, they see the last alien pilot hanging, with its throat slit, implying that the alien race piloting the ship was collecting other alien specimens. One such specimen was a Thing, which had broken out of its confinement pod, leading to a massacre among the aliens and other specimens, foreshadowing what would happen at the Norwegian base. This ship's interior scene was later scrapped and moved to the end, however, after early screenings, the studio didn't think the Pilot-Thing was scary enough, and the climax was becoming too complicated, with Kate trying to stop the Sander-Thing as well as discovering the Thing's backstory at the same time. So the backstory was omitted, a new computer-generated Sander-Thing was inserted at the last minute, and a Tetris-like animation was added to the scene where Kate enters the central area to hide the dead alien pilot.

It is mentioned in the DVD commentary that the remains that Kate Lloyd is examining at the beginning of the movie is one of the dog thing props from John Carpenter's The Thing (1982).

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RW627 - Heroes Rewatch S03E18-19 - Exposed Shades

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom play their hand and think of the past generations as they discuss season 3 episodes 18 & 19, Exposed and Shades of Gray.

Chapter Five 'Exposed':

Volume: Four

Written by: Adam Armus & Kay Foster

Directed by: Eric Laneuville

Original airdate: March 2, 2009

 

Synopsis: 

Sandra confronts Claire, with Alex’s presence being discovered, despite Claire’s poor attempts at lying to her. Sandra understands the situation, telling her how she knows more than she and her father realize, revealing how she knows they’re being watched by agents outside. After a brief house search by the agents, Sandra fashions a fake ID for Alex and creates a diversion with Lyle, while Claire and Alex escape out the back into a neighboring pool where they hide underwater. When Claire finds it impossible to breathe underwater, Alex kisses her, giving her some of his oxygen, while the agents leave and continue their search. Claire returns home later and thanks her mother for her help. Sandra tells her she made some popcorn so they can relax and have a movie night but when Claire goes to get it, she is confronted by Eric Doyle, claiming that Rebel sent him to her for help.

Meanwhile, Matt continually paints the picture of him with the bombs, until they get a message from Rebel telling them where they need to go before the agents arrive and catch them. They barely escape but Danko figures out where they are headed based on the paintings left behind. Peter borrows Matt’s powers so they can sneak into the building together easier and they begin searching the records for Daphne, while Matt holds off Danko and the team with his powers. Bennet proves his loyalty to Danko by explaining they can cause a distraction to disrupt Matt’s concentration. As Rebel shows Peter the recordings made of them when they were captured, he starts copying them, while fire alarms start to blare. Matt loses control of his powers as Peter and him try to escape but are confronted by Danko and company. Matt finds himself captured as he tells Peter to escape.  Later, Nathan asks Angela if she knows who Rebel is but she claims she doesn’t. Peter calls Nathan and threatens to release the footage to the world unless Nathan gives up Parkman and Daphne. Nathan agrees to the exchange but when Bennet goes to do the exchange, he tells Peter mentally that that Daphne and Matt aren't there, that it’s been a setup. Danko manages to get a shot off on Peter in the arm, but as he falls over the edge, Nathan swoops in and carries him away. As they talk with Angela, Nathan tries to get Peter to give himself up and let him protect him, but Peter borrows Nathan’s power and flies off alone. Angela tells Nathan that he needs to prepare himself because something is happening and it’s all different now.

Sylar and Luke continue their trip, but Sylar stops short, recognizing an old diner he went to once with his father. He remembers it as being the day when his father sold him to another family and then killed his mother. Luke tries to get him to move on but instead Sylar roughs him up before telling him to leave as he plans to find his father to kill him as revenge.

As the news stations begin releasing the videos Peter stole, Danko decides to setup Matt as a scapegoat, strapping him to a bomb and dropping him off, drugged, in front of the US Capitol, planning to show the world that those with abilities are evil and in turn, knowing he will be asked to hunt them all down. 

Back-issues:

Joshua Rush played young Sylar. He’s has gone onto a few more roles since his time on Heroes, most notably the title role of Waldo in the Peacock series Where’s Waldo, based on the best selling books (young adventurers Waldo and Wenda use their problem-solving skills and the help of an international wizard society to stop a rival globetrotter named Odlulu from using her magic to stir up trouble). Before that, he was in the Disney series Andi Mack (a contemporary coming-of-age story about a girl who's trying to determine where she fits in. When her free-spirited older sister returns with a revelation that changes everything, it sends Andi on an uncharted course of self-discovery), as well as the series the Lion Guard (based on the Lion King, he plays a honey badger named Bunga). He also was a voice in the Puss In Boots animated series, playing Toby the pig.

The female agent, Rachel Mills, is played by Taylor Cole, originally seen in The Recruit. Her first role ever was in a Lori Loughlin led series called Summerland (Bradin, Nikki and Derrick are three kids from an average normal Kansas household. Their whole life is thrown upside-down when their parents are tragically killed in a car accident, also starring Zac Efron). She starred in a series of Hallmark mysteries called The Ruby Herring Mysteries. She was a supporting actor in 11 episodes of the 92 episode series The Originals (a family of power-hungry thousand-year-old vampires looking to take back the city that they built and dominate all those who have done them wrong). She was also a lead in the 2014 raunchy sex comedy Dumbbells (a former basketball star suffering from a knee injury looks to rehab himself at a rundown Los Angeles gym), and also starred in the series The Event, which starred Jason Ritter and Zelijko Ivanek (when a man goes looking for his missing girlfriend, he stumbles upon a government conspiracy that is bigger than the President himself). Most recently, she’s been in some hallmark movies like Long Lost Christmas, Aloha Heart, and Pumpkin Everything,  amongst many others.

Chapter Six 'Shades of Gray':

Volume: Four

Written by: Oliver Grigsby

Directed by: Greg Beeman

Original airdate: March 9, 2009

 

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Eric Doyle begs Claire to help him, that he has changed, that he wants to just bring happiness to people as a puppeteer, and that Rebel told him she would help him but Claire refuses. Doyle Learns of Claire’s free pass, getting angry that she won’t help her own kind, but given the choice of forcing Claire to help him, he backs down, resigning himself to being hunted and living on the street as he sheds a tear and leaves. Claire asks her mother whether she should have helped, reasoning that she should be helping people, and finally deciding to take a job as a cover for helping Rebel instead of having people sent to her house. She passes the interview pretty easily, given she’s a hot girl that wants to work in a comic book store and will naturally bring in customers. After she leaves her shift, she calls her father to ask who she is supposed to be when leading a double life. Given that she isn’t sure what answer she wants, the truth or the nice answer, he can’t advise her. She then gets a message from Rebel that Doyle has been discovered, asking her to help him. Doyle, caught by Rachel Mills, uses his powers to knock her out but is then held up by her partner. Claire shows up in time to knock him out, helping Doyle with a new identity. She asks him if he really has changed, but Doyle merely smiles and walks away. 

Hiro and Ando arrive in town to save Matt Parkman, but find themselves mistaken for babysitters for a small baby that is named Matt Parkman.

Nathan faces off against a suspicious Danko but leaves to attend to Matt down at the Capitol, as policemen surround the area. Nathan talks to Matt, urging him to use his powers to see the truth. Being drugged, his powers are weak, but slowly they come back and he’s able to read the minds of the bomb techs in the area and figure out what wire to pull in order to disarm it. Back at the base however, Danko has ordered his team to detonate the bomb. Unfortunately, Rebel has hacked into their system and shut down the detonation. As they work to get their connection back, Matt finally gets a clear message about the wires and Nathan pulls it just as Danko’s connection is restored. As the bomb fails to blow, Nathan punches out Matt and he’s taken into custody.

Nathan and Danko spar off against each other again, with Nathan firing him, but Danko answers to a higher authority and refuses to back down. He starts playing a clip of Tracy yelling that Nathan is one of them and begins his quest to figure out Nathan’s secrets. Nathan goes to see Tracy, who recently also received a message from Rebel that help was coming. He tells her that she doesn’t have to like him, but he is her last hope. Danko comes in and tries to interrogate her about Nathan, but she refuses to give him up. Danko vents to Bennet who puts him onto Angela Petrelli, hoping to throw him off their scent. Danko does confront her, but she has done her homework and learned of an operation in which he himself was somehow miraculously the only survivor. After hearing her, Danko backs off and leaves. Nathan later gets permission from the president to fire Danko, but Danko comes at him, firing a gun at the window behind Nathan before pushing him out the window. Nathan falls but then uses his ability to stop himself before flying off.

Sylar finally finds his father, Samson, a broken down old man suffering in the final stages of cancer, living in squalor, practicing his taxidermy skills. He welcomes death, which surprises Sylar, and he holds off, learning about his father’s viewpoints on life as he shows him the art of taxidermy. He reveals that he has collected and forgotten many abilities over the years and talks of how they both choose easy targets to attack in their life. He tells Sylar that his life was disappointing because there was no challenge in it, but his tone changes when he sees Sylar can heal, wanting that power for himself so he can have immortality as well. Samson pins his son to the wall with arrows and uses an ability to disorient him and keep his mind clouded. Sylar awakens to see Samson ready to cut him open but Sylar talks with him, until he has become clear enough to use his powers and fights back, pushing the man away from him. Samson tells him to kill him then, but Sylar refuses, leaving him to suffer with his disease alone, taking along the rabbit he learned to stuff. 

When Danko returns home, he sees a stuffed rabbit on his table as Sylar lies in wait in the other room.

Back-issues:

Papa Samson Sylar was played by John Glover (John Soursby Glover Jr.), star of so many movies and series, notably Gremlins 2 where he played entrepreneur Daniel Clamp,

Smallville, Bryce Cummings in Scrooged, and Search for Tomorrow (238 episodes of a soap opera in the early 80’s, playing a mentally disturbed kidnapper who kidnapped Joanne, the lead character). He has some animation work to his name as well, performing as Dyson in Tron: Uprising and The Riddler in Batman The Animated Series and the video games based on that show. He also received Emmy nominations for his guest appearance in series like Frasier, LA Law and Crime & Punishment. In Shazam he played both the young and old versions of Dr. Thaddeus Sivana's stern and abrasive father.

Heroes EU:

Comrades Part 2

Ivan causes problems for Noah & Claude whilst after "The Russian".

Puppet with No Strings

There is no happy ending to Doyle's tale of woe.

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RW626 - The Thing Rewatch - John Carpenter's The Thing

 

In this episode of The Thing Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan are isolated with the boys for the winter as they discuss John Carpenter's The Thing.

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John Carpenter has stated that of all his films, this is his personal favorite. He takes all his failed movies pretty hard, but the film's initial negative reception disappointed him the most. Not only was it a box-office bomb but critics panned its gory effects, tone, and characters.

John Carpenter considers this to be the first of his Apocalypse trilogy. Prince of Darkness (1987) and In the Mouth of Madness (1994) comprise the other two parts of the trilogy.

The casting of MacReady proved to be difficult. Many A-list actors met with Universal and read for the role of MacReady, but nearly everyone turned it down; Nick Nolte, the top choice, immediately rejected the offer, and the role was also turned down by Jeff Bridges, Tom Berenger, Christopher Walken, Scott Glenn, Roy Scheider, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Shepard, Jack Thompson, Tom Atkins, and Don Johnson. Screenwriter Bill Lancaster wrote the script with Harrison Ford or Clint Eastwood in mind for the lead role and both received offers. Fred Ward expressed interest but was passed on by Universal as they wanted a bigger name. Kurt Russell was hired by recommendation from Carpenter.

The film is considered a benchmark in special make-up effects. The effects were created by Rob Bottin, who was only 22 when he started the project.

The British Columbia town of Stewart was chosen as the main location as it is the snowfall capital of North America. The camp was built in July 1981 in anticipation of filming commencing in December. The temperature ranged between 0 degrees Fahrenheit and -15 degrees Fahrenheit during the shoot. It cost the production 75,000 dollars just to keep the cast and crew warm in winter gear. The opening sequence was shot in Alaska over the Juneau ice fields.

To give the illusion of icy Antarctic conditions, interior sets on the Los Angeles sound stages were refrigerated down to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, while it was well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit outside.

The opening title attempts to replicate the appearance of the original Howard Hawks film. To create the effect of the title, an animation cell with "The Thing" written on it was placed behind a smoke-filled fish tank which was covered with a plastic garbage bag. The bag was ignited, creating the effect of the title burning onto the screen.

While discussing the character of MacReady, John Carpenter and Kurt Russell discussed having MacReady be a former Vietnam War helicopter pilot who was involved in some sort of tragedy and since felt disgraced by his service. Because of this, MacReady suffers from PTSD, alcoholism, and severe insomnia. This backstory ultimately did not make it into the finished film, though it explains why MacReady was awake to hear the dogs whining and why he isn't fazed by the grotesque violence. It also adds deeper context to the line "I'm a real light sleeper, Childs."

According to the signpost outside the camp, the Antarctic research team is stationed at the United States National Science Institute Station 4. However, in early drafts of the script, the base was called, "U.S. Outpost 31". When making a recording of events, MacReady, signs off as, "R.J. MacReady, helicopter pilot, U.S. Outpost #31".

The female voice on MacReady's computer was performed (uncredited) by then-wife of John Carpenter, Adrienne Barbeau.

This is the first of John Carpenter's feature films which he did not score himself. The film's original choice of composer was Jerry Goldsmith, but he passed and Ennio Morricone composed a very low-key Carpenter-like score filled with brooding, menacing bass chords. Unused music composed for this film was later used by Ennio Morricone in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight (2015). Ironically, Morricone's Thing score was nominated for a Razzie for worst score, while his score for Hateful Eight won him an Oscar.

Opened the same day as Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). Both movies were met with unfavorable reactions by critics after the premiere and they were beaten by the more positive Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the biggest hit of that year.

John Carpenter's next project was to be Firestarter (1984) but he lost that gig when The Thing (1982) didn't do well at the box office.

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RW625 - Heroes Rewatch S03E16-17 - Building Wars

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom will not stand idly by or hold secrets as they discuss season 3 episodes 16 & 17, Building 26 and Cold Wars.

Chapter Three 'Building 26':

Volume: Four

Written by: Rob Fresco

Directed by: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

Original airdate: February 16, 2009

 

Synopsis: 

As the Bennett have a family breakfast, compete with Lyle, Sandra makes small talk with Claire but Claire is unwilling, leaving her father to question her later about how they have to be careful because they are being watched.  As Bennet leaves her with instructions to start attending community college, Claire gets a text from Rebel, telling her to save a boy named Alex at the local comic book store.

Luke tries to be friends with Sylar, making jokes, but Sylar is impatient with him, given he’s refusing to give Sylar the exact location of his father. Sylar threatens him after Luke tries to lie about the location, but backs off, knowing he’s stuck with the kid for the moment. Stopping at a diner, Luke tells him that Sylar’s father used to take him bird watching, and it triggers a memory for Sylar of being pulled by his father in the same red wagon. They go into the cafe and after Luke uses his powers to play a joke on a man, Sylar tells him the rules he has for using his powers, about not getting emotional, having an objective, and a goal, and not just using them for amusement. Luke decides to give Sylar his father’s address, telling him he hopes that Sylar won’t kill him now that he has the information he needed. Sylar then notices that agents have begun entering the diner and tells Luke they need to go but they are held up by armed agents. Luke makes a distraction, enabling Sylar to use his powers and escape, but leaving Luke behind. As the agents bag and tag Luke and begin to drive away, the vehicle stops suddenly. All communication with their home base is cut off as Sylar emerges from the van, clad in the agent’s uniforms, now bloodied as he has killed them all. He unties Luke, removing the drug feed from him, and escapes. 

Hiro and Ando head to India so Hiro can fulfill his destiny to stop a wedding from happening in order to get his powers back. Ando however sees the bride, Annapoura, as Hiro goes off in search of his destiny. Ando and the bride connect and she sees him and his display of his powers as a sign to not get married. Unfortunately the groom, Deepak, a powerful man in India,  confronts the bride and knocks out Ando, taking him hostage and forcing the marriage to happen. Hiro arrives at the wedding later and demands that it be stopped, calling out Deepak for his crimes and how Annapoura is being forced into it. She admits this to grandfather who just wants her to be happy, but Deepak is enraged. Hiro stands up to him, punching him, as he falls to his knees, calling the wedding off and agreeing to return Ando. Later, Ando and Hiro receive a fax that Annapoura received from Rebel, telling them to go to LA and save Matt Parkman.

Nathan gets a visit from his new boss, Abby Collins, who has come to see exactly what is going on with his operation, shocked to discover that Tracy, someone she knows, is chained and being held by heat lamps, vowing to Nathan that she is shutting the whole thing down, not believing his stories of people with powers. When she returns, Nathan tries to convince her again, but they are interrupted by Tracy who has managed to break her chains and escape. She freezes a man to death but is then tased by Nathan’s operatives as Abby finally understands, and promises Nathan whatever funding he needs. Nathan confronts Danko later, telling him that he knows he fixed things so Tracy could escape, thereby giving Abby the proof she needed to keep the project alive. Danko unsympathetically says sometimes in a war, someone needs to fall on a grenade.

Claire goes to Sam’s Comics and tries to tell Alex to leave, but he doesn’t believe it’s real, just a joke by his friend. Claire cuts her hand and shows him how she can heal before seeing her father enter the shop. Alex, now believing, pushes a rack into Bennet, enabling them both to escape in his car. After driving away, they stop and talk about what they should do next, but Claire’s notices that they’ve been followed, abandoning the car. Bennet checks in with Danko who raises suspicions that Claire was seen in the vicinity. Bennet confronts Claire later but she pushes back against him, returning home. She tells her mom about what happened during their college trip, and how Bennet has returned to his old ways. When he returns home, Sandra admonishes him, and tells him to move out of the house. As he says goodbye to Claire and leaves, we see that Alex is hiding in her room, as Claire begins helping him to get away safely. Bennet heads to a local bar, drowning his sorrows, but soon finds himself woozy and passes out as Parkman, Peter, and Mohinder pick him up, and take him away. 

Back-issues:

Abby was played by Moira Kelly and is best known for her role of Karen in One Tree Hill. She was in various Twin Peaks properties, and 22 episodes of The West Wing. She’s done voice work as Nala in various Lion King movies, animated and live action, and she also appeared in Cannibal: the Musical. Most recently she has been in the series Citadel (global spy agency Citadel has fallen, and its agents' memories were wiped clean. Now the powerful syndicate, Manticore, is rising in the void).

Annapura was played by Amrapali Ambegaokar. She’s mostly a character actress, with some recurring roles as a reporter in Scandal, and an intern on Grey’s Anatomy. 

Anna’s friend Shaila was played by Aarti Mann, best known for playing Raj’s sister, Priya, on The Big Bang Theory. More recently, she was in the series The Recruit (Owen Hendricks, a CIA lawyer becomes involved in massive international conflicts with dangerous parties after an asset tries to expose her relationship to the agency).

Alex was played by Justin Baldoni, best known for his role of Rafael in Jane the Virgin. Previously, he was a recurring character in Everwood (with Treat Williams, a widowed brain surgeon from Manhattan moves his two children to the small mountain town of Everwood, Colorado), amongst a number of other minor roles.

Chapter Four 'Cold Wars':

Volume: Four

Written by: Christopher Zatta and Aron Eli Coleite & Joe Pokaski

Directed by: Seith Mann

Original airdate: February 23, 2009

 

Synopsis: 

Parkman, Peter, and Mohinder begin their journey into Bennet’s mind to find out the details of their opposition, starting back five weeks ago when Bennet met Angela. She gives him a watch as a symbol of the end of the Company, wanting to get her family back together again, but Bennet is unsure of what to do, having only ever done this type of work.

As Matt uses his powers to dig deeper, Mohinder questions his motivation and wonders how far he will go to get the answers they need.

Danko is concerned because Bennet hasn’t checked in as scheduled, while Nathan realizes that Danko has everyone on surveillance, including himself. 

Back in the past, Matt sees Bennet bored with his new home life, and being approached by Nathan, asking him to be a part of his new task force in rounding up people with abilities. Matt gives Peter the address of a secret storage locker Bennet has and he goes to find it. Unfortunately, Danko is monitoring it and finds Peter there, ordering his men in to capture him. Peter uses some of the weapons he finds to blind the agents however, and he flies out quickly, carrying off as many weapons as he can. 

Matt goes back into Bennet’s memories and finds the moment where he meets Danko and discovers that he isn’t really in charge of Nathan’s operation like he thought he would be. The two have a disagreement on whether they should be using people with abilities to help them, with Danjko seeing them only as targets, not as people. Matt then sees Bennet go to Mohinder, asking him for his help because of the danger Danko’s force represents. Mohinder tells him he refused to join him, but Matt attacks him anyway. As they fight, Bennet escapes. They try to track him down in the parking lot but it is Peter who has just returned who recaptures him.

Matt goes back in and finds out where Danko lives when he sees a memory of Bennet going to his apartment, hoping to try and talk with him and come to a compromise with their new methods. Peter goes to the address and holds Danko up, but Danko calls his bluff. Nathan shows up suddenly, shocking Danko, leaving Peter to shoot Danko in the arm, proving he’s serious. Nathan tells him if he kills anyone then he will become the monster they think he is, warning him that his men are closing in on Mohinder and Matt. Peter takes off to get back to his friends. 

As the men search the hotel for Matt and Mohinder, Matt goes into Bennet’s mind with his permission, having told Matt that Daphne is still alive. He does so and sees it is actually the truth, while Mohinder, having gone out to attack the men as a distraction, ends up being captured. The agents finally find Matt and start drugging him, taking him out and into custody, but Peter flies down at the last second and whips him away before they can do anything. 

Mohinder, captured and chained to the floor, is confronted by Nathan, threatening him that if he doesn’t help him, his associates are going to kill Daphne, and then Mohinder as well.

Bennet talks with Danko, telling him he is fully committed now, having lost his family for now. He then talks with Angela, returning her watch, indicating he is still in the game. She tells him he is going to have to make tough choices to prove his loyalty to Danko and company, with Bennet saying he has always been comfortable with morally gray. 

Peter returns to Isaac’s loft where we see Matt in the precognition trance making a number of paintings, specifically of bombs, himself strapped to many of them, and a giant explosion at the White House. 

Heroes EU:

The Swimmer

Some of Alex Woolsley's back-story is revealed.

Comrades Part 1

Noah & Claude meet a retired Ivan whilst hunting "The Russian".

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RW624 - The Thing Rewatch - The Thing From Another World

 

In this episode of The Thing Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan check out the food pyramid for a balanced diet as they discuss The Thing From Another World.

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This film was based on the novella "Who Goes There?" by Don A. Stuart. The credits on this film list the author by his real name, the science fiction editor and writer John W. Campbell, Jr.

It is generally believed that Howard Hawks took over direction from Christian Nyby (his former editor) during production, and it has always been acknowledged by Nyby that Hawks was the guiding hand. However, in an interview, James Arness said that while Hawks spent a lot of time on the set, it was Nyby who actually directed the picture, not Hawks. Filmmaker John Carpenter, who directed the remake The Thing (1982), said in an interview that he asked Hawks that question in 1971; Hawks told him that he only gave Nyby some suggestions. Carpenter noted however that in later life, Hawks started to claim more and more credit for directing the film, and that the completed movie has much more of Hawks' trade marks than Nyby's later work.

John Carpenter has cited Howard Hawks as an inspiration. He included parts of this film in Halloween (1978), mirrored the final line in The Fog (1980), and remade the film as The Thing (1982).

Howard Hawks asked the U.S. Air Force for assistance in making the film. He was refused, because the top brass felt that such cooperation would compromise the U.S. government's official stance that U.F.O.s didn't exist.

Originally, it was intended to make the creature a shapeshifter, as in the novel, but the limited budget forced the filmmakers to drop the idea. Early conceptual sketches depict a very plant-like looking creature, with one of its limbs seemingly undergoing a transformation into a human hand. Close-ups of "The Thing" were removed. It was felt that the make-up could not hold up to close scrutiny. Allegedly, test footage was shot featuring a creature with the earlier alien design (blue-skinned, with three red eyes, a sucker mouth and stringy hair), played by a one-legged man.

According to Make-up Artist Lee Greenway, he took James Arness in his car to the house of Producer and co-Director Howard Hawks to show off the make up for The Thing. After months of frustration, Hawks told Greenway to put a Frankenstein (1931) type of headpiece on Arness. Arness reportedly regarded his role as so embarrassing, that he didn't attend the premiere. 

The famous scene when the crew formed a ring around the flying saucer frozen in the ice, was actually filmed at the RKO Ranch in the San Fernando Valley in one hundred degree weather.

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Our Halloween fun continues with John Carpenter's The Thing.

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