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MacReady and Childs' fate at the end of the film has also been subject to many interpretations. One popular interpretation is that Childs is The Thing, and MacReady is aware of this. When the two of them share a drink, MacReady had given Childs one of the bottles of gasoline he was using for Molotov Cocktails as seen earlier in the film.
The effects were designed by Rob Bottin, except for the Thing's dog form, which was designed by Stan Winston. [3] In 2011, a prequel to the 1982 film was released, directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., which was created using computer-generated effects for the Thing in addition to practical effects. However, in the film's production, most of ...
The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms.
Blake continues to pursue the man with the radio, eventually discovering that he is a Thing. Blake kills him, and takes the radio. Moving on, he enters the "Pyron" sub-facility beneath the Norwegian base, learning of a company called Gen-Inc., who have installed a research team under the command of Dr. Sean Faraday ( John Carpenter ).
Who Goes There? is a 1938 science fiction horror novella by American author John W. Campbell, written under the pen name Don A. Stuart.Its story follows a group of people trapped in a scientific outpost in Antarctica infested by shapeshifting monsters able to absorb and perfectly imitate any living being, including humans.
Macready is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Agnes Macready (1855–1935), Australian nurse and journalist; Carol MacReady, English actress; Edward Nevil Macready, (1798–1848), British Army officer; George Macready (1899–1973), American screen actor; Gordon Macready (1891–1956), British Army officer
George Peabody Macready Jr. [1] (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973) [2] was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains. [ 3 ] Early life
He was born in London the son of William Macready the Elder, and actress Christina Ann Birch.Educated at Rugby School where he became headboy, and where now the theatre is named after him, it was his initial intention to go to University of Oxford, but, in 1809, financial problems experienced by his father, the lessee of several provincial theatres, called him to share the responsibilities of ...