Mary Elizabeth Winstead cast in THE THING!

The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog say Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been cast in Universal's prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 horror The Thing, which shoots mid-March in Toronto. She plays Kate Lloyd, one of the movie's leads - a PHD candidate who joins the Norwegian research team in Antarctica after it discovers an alien ship in the ice. Also cast is Joel Edgerton (he was Gawain in King Arthur), who will play the blue collar, money-driven mercenary helicopter pilot Sam Carter, who joins the team when The Thing is released. I have no problem with either casting, and I'm very much a fan of Winstead and I like her work in this genre. The script comes from Ronald D. Moore, and rewritten by Eric Heisserer, and is a prequel to a remake, of a movie based on a short story. Commericals helmer Matthijs Van Heijningen is directing, and I kinda hoped it would be an all Norwegian crew. I too, would have loved to see it made in the Norwegian language, just to add to the intense and creepy factor for the American audience. But of course, Hollywood would never go for subtitles, so that was never gonna happen. Winstead and Carter look to be our entry vehicles into the story, as the majority of the rest of the crew will probably not speak English.