I think there’s an interesting film in there somewhere trying to get out. It’s obvious by the final act that the studio had to step in and fix the mess. There’s quite a lot of footage online of scenes that didn’t make the final film.

This trailer features footage of the Thing jumping out of a stealth bomber to a military base at 2:20. That never happened.

Also, this B Roll footage shows that scenes were filmed with a Fantasticar, that never made the final cut.

I mean, what we got was pretty bad and maybe Trank’s director’s cut was any good either, but I would like to have seen what he was trying for.