The lengthy call-sheet was announced in March and shooting started in Toronto last month. We assumed casting for Matthijs Van Heijningen's still-untitled prequel to John Carpenter's Howard Hawks remake The Thing was long finished. But just arrived is Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, better known as Lost's Mr Eko.
AA-A (Triple A?) also starred in HBO's Oz, and clearly has a rapport with Stephen Sommers, since he cropped up in both The Mummy Returns and GI Joe. In The Thing, he'll be playing the role of Derek Jameson, cockney tabloid journalist and 80s Radio 2 DJ. Actually we're not sure about that last bit.
Assuming they're all still alive at this point, he'll be joining Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Dennis Storhøi, Trond Espen Seim, Jørgen Langhelle, Kristofer Hivju, Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise, Jo Adrian Haavind, and Eric Christian Olsen at the Arctic base, where a crashed alien ship has been found in the ice. With consequences we saw in 1982. Ronald D Moore and Eric Heisserer wrote the script.
[LOST SPOILER] Let's hope Adewale fares better against The Thing than he did against the Smoke Monster. The release is planned for 2011. Nobody has mentioned 3D yet, so let's keep it that way.