There’s no shortage of the best Kurt Russell movies, with some of the best entries on that list including Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China and Tombstone. And then there’s 1982’s The Thing, the John Carpenter-helmed adaptation of John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There? that saw Russell’s R.J. Macready and his cohorts dealing with a shapeshifting alien in Antarctica. More than 40 years after that flick’s release, and while speaking with CinemaBlend, Russell dug into how one of the action sequences in his new show Monarch: Legacy of Monsters reminded him of The Thing.
Russell was one of the first actors to be added to the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters cast, with Apple TV+ subscribers watching him place Lee Shaw in the 2015 storyline, while his son Wyatt plays Lee during the 1950s. Episodes 3 and 4, titled “Secrets and Lies” and “Parallels and Interiors,” saw Lee and his new, young friends in Alaska fleeing from the Frost Vark, which was the “most challenging” Titan to design for the show.
Russell was one of the first actors to be added to the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters cast, with Apple TV+ subscribers watching him place Lee Shaw in the 2015 storyline, while his son Wyatt plays Lee during the 1950s. Episodes 3 and 4, titled “Secrets and Lies” and “Parallels and Interiors,” saw Lee and his new, young friends in Alaska fleeing from the Frost Vark, which was the “most challenging” Titan to design for the show.
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00:00It was reminiscent of when we worked on A Glacier and the Thing, yeah, very much so.
00:05But it was very cold when we worked on The Glacier in Alaska and the Thing,
00:10and it was very warm, actually, on this one.
00:13But it sure did remind me of it, and you had to watch where you walked.
00:16Very difficult. Figured that it would be quite an undertaking.
00:20Ten hours is like doing five movies back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back,
00:23if they're each two hours long.
00:26You don't know exactly what the future is going to be
00:29in terms of the scripts themselves.
00:31And it was, hey, not easy, but the idea is to try to make that invisible.
00:36So we went after it.
00:38If you want to save millions of lives, we can use some help.
00:55THE GLACIER