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Simon Wakelin | March 2012

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With some creative help from fellow directors Spike Jonze and Zack Snyder, Matthijs van Heijningen found himself helming his first feature, The Thing, with Universal Pictures. Here, Simon Wakelin probes the director about living the dream, why character is always king and how he's increasingly drawn to the darkly comic side of life…

The Thing is commercials director Matthijs van Heijningen’s first film, a frozen terrestrial nightmare that works as an effective

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