wearing little
round glasses.
FIRST BOY
(annoyed)
Shit, its the Italian!
He is slightly older than JACQUES but he is taller. ENZO
is with ROBERTO, his younger brother, the only one allowed
to carry his flippers. Five kids are behind him.
ENZO
Well, if it isnt the little
Frenchman! How is the little
Frenchman?
JACQUES
(cool)
Fine!
ENZO pats JACQUES on the shoulder and leaves his hand
there -- a li
wears the uniform of
a guerrilla general, and a black beret. He is still amid running,
shouting techs and officers.
C.U. MAN, pushing slowly in as the battle rages O.S. He lowers the
binoculars. He is forty-five years old. Features severe. The left
side of his face is heavily scarred. A patch covers that eye. An
impressive man, forged in the furnace of a lifetime of war. The name
stitched on the
THE THING
Screenplay by
Bill Lancaster
From the story "Who Goes There"
by Don A. Stuart
SECOND DRAFT
March 4, 1981
CAST
MACREADY 35. Helicopter pilot. Likes chess. Hates
the cold. The pay is good.
GARRY 46. The station manager. Stiff. Ex-army
officer. Wears a handgun.
CHILDS 33. Six-four. Two-fifty. Black. A
mechanic. Can be jolly. But dont mess.
BLAIR 50. Sensitive. Intelligent. Unassuming.
An a
compression
One, two, three, four, five
One, two, three, four, five
One, two, three, four, five
One, two, three, four, five
One, two, three, four, five
One, two, three, four, five
No pulse Been flat
Get someone from surgery down here, pedals
One hundred
Charging!
Clear! No change
Two hundred
Charging! Clear!
Theres nothing to explain Dr. Newman
His Synoptic Cholinesterase is practically non-exist
wear overalls and have bowl haircuts: RAFE and DANNY, 10
years old.
RAFE
Bandits at 2 oclock.
DANNY
Power dive!
They buzz their lips in a flying noise and work the controls,
Rafes bare feet on one pedal, Dannys on the other.
RAFE
Its Germans!
DANNY
Kill the bastards!
Rafe looks at Danny in shock -- then they both laugh and go
right back into their game, manufacturing their own machine
gun and eng