The Thing (2011) is an upcoming action/adventure, science fiction/fantasy, and suspense/horror film, directed by Matthijs Van Heijningen. It is distributed by Universal Pictures which is scheduled to be released on October 14, 2011 in theaters worldwide. The film stars, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Walker II, Kim Bubbs, Eric Christian Olsen, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.

Here, Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) a paleontologist join a Norwegian Scientific Team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship which buried in the ice of Antartica. They discovered a creature which seems to have died a long time ago to a crash eon. When a simple experiment makes the alien frees from a frozen prison, Kate decided to join Carter (Joel Edgerton) a pilot crew.