[kt103099]

Misleading HN title. The actual title of the article is 'Dismembrance of the Thing’s Past'. Don't know where OP got the 'nearly sabotaged' career part.

[dang]

Ouch, I don't know how we missed that all day. Sorry, everybody.

Submitters: it's against the rules to rewrite titles, except when the original is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "“The Thing” – The film that nearly sabotaged John Carpenter’s career". We changed it to the doc title.)