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The Thing premiered on October 10, 2011, and was released on October 14, 2011. The film was a box-office bomb , grossing only $31.5 million worldwide on a budget of $38 million, and received mixed reviews from critics, with many comparing it unfavorably to the 1982 film.
The film has been described as "ahead of its time", [18] and the "best remake of all time". [6] As such, the titular character has become one the most popular fictional aliens in cinema. The 2011 film also received a negative response, with IGN comparing the film to the Thing itself, calling it "an insidious, defective mimic of the real, er ...
Coyle (Keegan-Michael Key) was a former Marine and the best friend of Baxley, he is with him throughout the entire film and teams up with Baxley alone to take on the Apex Predator. Throughout the film he constantly makes jokes in an attempt to hide the past when he fired upon another vehicle of his own platoon (the only survivor being Baxley).
Robin R. Bottin [1] (born April 1, 1959) is an American special make-up effects creator. Known for his collaborations with directors John Carpenter, Paul Verhoeven and David Fincher, Bottin worked with Carpenter on both The Fog and The Thing, with Verhoeven on RoboCop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct, and with Fincher on Se7en and Fight Club.
In 1996, van Heijningen made his film directing debut with the Dutch short-film thriller Red Rain. [3] In 2011, he directed The Thing, a prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing. [4] Van Heijningen was due to direct Army of the Dead, [5] but the project ended up being directed by Zack Snyder after lingering in development hell for a number of years.
The Things won the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story, [1] and was a finalist for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, [2] the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, [3] and the 2011 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction. [4] The audio version was a finalist for the 2010 Parsec Award for short fiction. [5]
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The Thing (Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.He is a founding member of the Fantastic Four.The Thing was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and he first appeared in The Fantastic Four #1 (cover-dated Nov. 1961).