Updated: More talk of Things...

The LA Times talks The Thing remake with Strike Entertainment producing partners Marc Abraham and Eric Newman here. Shooting gets underway this Friday with Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr. behind the camera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton in front of it...

"It's [The Thing] a great film. But once we realized there was a new story to tell, with the same characters and the same world, but from a very different point of view, we took it as a challenge. It's the story about the guys who are just ghosts in Carpenter's movie -- they're already dead. But having Universal give us a chance to tell their story was irresistible."

- Marc Abraham

Update: Shock Till You Drop reports that Norwegian actors Dennis Storhøi (The 13th Warrior), Trond Espen Seim (The Frost), Jørgen Langhelle (Svik), Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise, Kristofer Hivju (Manhunt) and Jo Adrian Haavind have joined the cast of The Thing...

Update: Eric Christian Olsen (Not Another Teen Movie) has also been added to the cast, according to bloody-disgusting.com...

(Thanks to Dread Central, shocktillyoudrop.com and bloody-disgusting.com)