The Thing (1982) Storyboards (Copy) Includes 47 pages with storyboards. The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", a parasitic extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms. The group is overcome by paranoia and conflict as they learn that they can no longer trust each other and that any of them could be the Thing. What is a Movie Storyboard? A storyboard is a graphic representation of how a movie unfolds, shot by shot. It consists of a number of squares with illustrations or images representing each shot, with notes about what happens in the scene and what is said in the script during that shot. Will be packaged and shipped with great care.