Here is the first trailer for the upcoming prequel to the class 1980's film The Thing . The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead ( Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) and Joel Edgerton (Warrior) in the lead roles. It is a prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film of the same name. Matthijs's film will take place right before the first film, with the original Norwegian crew that discovered the alien, joined by Americans whose presence was unmentioned in the original film. Watch the trailer after the Jump... Video: 'The Thing' Movie Trailer Taking place three days before the events of the John Carpenter film, Paleontologist Kate Lloyd ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead ) and her two assistants Davida Morris ( Davetta Sherwood ) and Adam Goodman ( Eric Christian Olsen ) join a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a crashed extraterrestrial spaceship buried in the ice of Antarctica. They discover a creature that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. When an experime