The Thing (1951) Movie Script

Screenplay by Charles Lederer Based on a Story by John W. Campbell Jr.

At a distant Arctic research station, a UFO has crashed. The investigating scientists discover that the circular craft has melted its way into the ice, which has frozen up again. While attempting to recover the ship, Captain Patrick Hendry accidentally explodes the vessel, but the pilot -- at least, what seems to be the pilot -- remains frozen in a block of ice. When the ice thaws, it unleashes a powerful, destructive creature that's hell-bent on annihilating everything in its path.

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The Thing (1982) Movie Script

Screenplay by Bill Lancaster Based on a Story by John W. Campbell Jr.

An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over.

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The Thing (2011) - Movie Script

Screenplay by Ronald D. Moore Based on a Story by John W. Campbell Jr.

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd joins 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 experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate join the crew's pilot, Carter, to keep it from killing and imitating them one at a time, using its uncanny ability to mimic any life form it absorbs through digestion, and potentially reaching civilization.

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