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More Practical Effects Tests Uploaded from ‘The Thing’ 2011
This movie was almost so cool.
Remember when The Thing was remade back in 2011? Okay so it was technically a prequel, but let’s be real here: it was more or less a remake of John Carpenter’s practical effects masterpiece. The film’s biggest flaw? It was loaded with pretty bad CGI, which went against so much of what was great about the ’82 film. Worse yet, practical effects masters studioADI were on set!
The story is by now incredibly well known, but the basic gist is that studioADI whipped up a ton of INCREDIBLE practical effects for The Thing 2011, most of which were completely erased from the film and replaced with terrible CGI; it was such a disaster that studioADI later fan-funded a film called Harbinger Down, which was made as an apology for what happened in 2011.
Over the years, the effects house has released tons of behind the scenes footage showing what almost was, and they’ve just uploaded yet another video today that we wanted to share.
Via the studioADI YouTube channel:
Projects often run concurrently and deadlines overlap so some short fittings or quick bench tests get captured by crew supervisor phones for review. Thanks to ADI’s assistant shop supervisor Garth Winkless, a collection of creature fittings and animatronic tests for THE THING were recently uncovered and we couldn’t wait to share them.
Ugh. What a bummer, huh?
Warner Bros. has already dated prequel film The Conjuring: First Communion for a September 10, 2027 release, and now the upcoming movie’s two stars have been found.
Deadline reports that Garrett Wareing (Ransom Canyon) and Amanda Fix (Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma) will play the young versions of Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: First Communion. The scoop was first reported by Dread Central.
Plot details remain under wraps at this time, but the upcoming prequel movie comes from director Rodrigue Huart, from a script by Richard Naing & Ian Goldberg.
It’s not certain if Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga will be appearing at all, though it seems the film will at least primarily focus on the young versions of their characters.
There are currently nine films in The Conjuring universe — The Conjuring, Annabelle, The Conjuring 2, Annabelle: Creation, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Nun 2, and last year’s The Conjuring: Last Rites. Matt Donato recently ranked every single movie in the hit saga, and you can read that ranking article right here.
A Conjuring Universe television series is allegedly also in the works.
Franchise producer Peter Safran previously said of The Conjuring Universe, “There’s so much more to it that we haven’t dug into. So the truth is, I think there are really exciting ways to go with both film and television, frankly. It would be incredibly satisfying. People have been on this journey with us for a dozen years now. I think they want more.”
Garrett Wareing in “Ransom Canyon”
Amanda Fix in ‘Orphan Black: Echoes’ (2023)
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