TL; DR Version:
Nej, vi ser aldrig sakens "sanna form", om den har en . Direktören för The Thing (1982), John Carpenter, har sagt (i en intervju som jag inte kan tyckas hitta i nuläget) att han inte vet vad saken naturligtvis skulle se ut som , om det hade någon "sann form" till att börja med. Hans producent, Stuart Cohen, har förstärkt Carpenters påstående om att lite eller ingen tanke gavs till Thingens ursprung, men han spekulerade också att det närmaste som de kom för att avslöja Thingens "sanna form" var i den ursprungliga konceptkonsten för Blair-Thing . På grund av tekniska problem, såväl som ekonomiska och tidsbegränsningar, realiserades aldrig denna konceptkonst i den färdiga filmen.
Till skillnad från Carpenter och Cohen gav teamet som ansvarar för 2011-prequel med samma namn stor tanke på Thing's backstory. Skribent Eric Heiserrer, regissör Matthijs Van Heijningen, och specialeffekterna Studio Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc, kom med en förklaring av hur Thing kom att hitta sig på jorden. En utomjordisk ras, som besättningen kallades "Pilot Aliens", flyga genom Galaxy samlar prover av olika främmande arter från olika planeter. De samlade oavsiktligt en sak, som förmodligen gömmer sig för en mer oskyldig art. Vid något tillfälle flydde tingen från sin inneslutningsenhet och fortsatte snabbt att assimilera varannan varelse på rymdskeppet, en efter en. Den sista oassimilerade överlevaren var fartygets faktiska pilot och han bestämde sig för att krascha rymdfarkosten i hopp om att förstöra Thing innan den kunde spridas till andra planeter. Piloten dog i kraschen, men tingen överlevde, klättrade upp från vraket och begravde sig i isen och väntade på någon form av livsform för att hitta den, då kunde den återuppta sin process för att assimilera allt som stod över.
Stuart Cohen, producent av 1982-filmen:
Q: Was there an idea as to the Thing's origins?
A: No, not really. Endless discussions about this with writers before John came on as director, almost none thereafter – for the purposes of this story, it really does not matter – think of the creature as the ultimate distillation of the Howard Hawks [producer of the 1951 version, The Thing From Another World] credo – a character defined by its actions, doing what it has to to survive…
Q: Was the "original" form of the thing ever shown in the film? Were there any bits and pieces that were "thing-original"? Was the "true" form ever planned to make an appearance?
A: The closest thing to a true form would have been the originally envisioned Blair monster, with bits and pieces of its many assimilations (as well as a partial Nauls) – most of this was jettisoned because of time and money.1
- Outpost 31
1 Mestadels oanvända konceptkonst och storyboards för Blair-Thing, som Cohen hävdar är det närmaste vi skulle ha sett på Thingens "sanna form", om det hade gjort det till den färdiga filmen. Konceptkonsten kommer från fansiten Outpost 31 ; De skannade artikelsidorna med storyboards kommer från en speciell fråga om < em> Cinemafantastique ägnat åt filmen.
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Director Matthijs Van Heijningen:
In the "Pilot Version", Kate walks in this room and sees a dead pilot hanging. He was the last pilot alive and Kate sees that he killed himself because his air pipe was cut (basically Colin in space). The back story was that this Alien pilot race collected specimens from different planets and The Thing was one of them, [but it] broke free and killed all the Alien species in the ship (pod room). I proposed to the studio a reshoot of a scene where Kate would wonder around in the ship and sees all the carnage caused by The Thing: an exterminated pilot alien race. The Thing, a specimen captured in a pod, broke free and killed the aliens on the ship. Or they killed each other not knowing who is who. The pilot in the pilot room kills himself and crashed the ship on Earth in the hope to stop The Thing. In the version I intended to shoot, the ship was steered by an Alien race and The Thing was a captive that broke free and killed everybody on board.
In [this] version, the pilot controlled the ship with tubes stuck in his back, operating the ship through those tubes. The pilot kills himself and crashes the ship on purpose, hoping that it would kill the Thing. Of course it doesn’t, it climbs out and freezes itself. So back to Kate. She sees the dead pilot and Sander, now has taken the form of the pilot (he has the genetics because of his spaceship slaughter fest 100.000 years before), has started up the ship. Sander attacks Kate in pilot form and corners Kate, who pulls her last grenade and threatens to blow them both up. That moment Carter runs in and sees what she is doing and blows up the sander Thing just to convince Kate that he is human. (he basically has no choice because he if fries Kate with his flamethrower everybody would blow up). Little complicated but we filmed this.”
(Quoted from the Facebook page of director Matthijs Van Heijningen)
- Thule Station
TomWoodruff,Jr.ochAlecGillis,frånAmalgamatedDynamics-Specialeffectsstudiosomansvararför(mestadelsborttagna)praktiskaeffekterför2011prequel:
Q: Can you tell us about the original scenes that were shot in the Alien ship. How did you feel about these scenes being rewritten and reshot and were you involved in these reshoots?
A: The footage featured the discovery of a fossilized Pilot hanging in repose (which you now see as a big cylinder of fractured lit pixels) and a surprise reveal that another Pilot is alive and has been infected by the Thing. It dislodges from its pilot seat and approaches Kate and Carter rescues her by setting it on fire with his flame-thrower. It's a disappointment to have something that's taken a lot of creative work from a lot of creative people eliminated. It hasn't happened to us a lot but it's part of the business. I was also disappointed to have done a big burn stunt, playing the Pilot, to provide fire elements for an intended CG version and not have it be of use. We designed the Sanders Thing that replaced the Pilot beats, but all of the replacement work happened in post without our involvement.
- Outpost 31
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Sammanställd Dynamics Video of Pilot Thing: