Winstead Talks THE THING Prequel & New Poster

This new poster of THE THING comes courtesy of ComingSoon and was taken at the Australian International Movie Convention by Encore.

Empire has some exclusive news about THE THING.

…we’ve relocated footage of our conversation with star Mary Elizabeth Winstead amidst the Scott Pilgrim line-up at this year’s Con (coincidence, we swear!). Click on the video below to watch the actress discuss the much debated issue of introducing a female character to the remote Antarctic setting, who out of herself and co-star Joel Edgerton got to be more like Kurt Russell, and which of them “kicks the most alien ass”.

The reboot/prequel based on John Carpenter’s classic will star Mary Elizabeth Winstead (SCOTT PILGRIM vs THE WORLD, LIVE FREE/DIE HARD) and Joel Edgerton (ANIMAL KINGDOM). Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Dennis Storh. The action takes place in a remote Antarctica outpost, an alien spaceship is discovered far beneath the ice. When a group of ambitious scientists decide to thaw out one of the creatures inside, they’re in for the terrifying fight of their lives.

Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller THE THING, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. THE THING serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, the thriller is produced by Strike Entertainment’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead).

Universal Pictures will unleash THE THING on April 29, 2011.