The Director of This Movie

Why not.

Also add:

-38% on Rottentomatoes
-6.2 on imdb, as of July 2015, although some may speculate that it will continue to decline as time is either good or continues to be unkind to the cgi.
-$38,000,000 budget (not including marketing) and $27,429,670 profit. Many publishers such as Forbes and Business Insider say that a movie must at least be 50% above their budget (including marketing) to earn a profit.
-The scriptwriter who wrote The Thing (2011), his imdb is also telling for the same reason as noted by SuessMeTub above.
-The director also posted on Facebook, after the movie was released, to remember the non-Tetris version, or, in other words, a different version than what was released. This could be interpreted as indicating a production *beep*

I'm just saying what is out there. Interpret what exists how you want.

Unemployed

What has that got to do with anything?

I take every failure hard. The one I took the hardest was The Thing. My career would have been different if that had been a big hit ... The movie was hated. Even by science-fiction fans. They thought that I had betrayed some kind of trust, and the piling on was insane. Even the original movie's director, Christian Nyby, was dissing me.

— John Carpenter in 2008 on the contemporary reception of The Thing

The impact on Carpenter was immediate – he lost the job of directing the 1984 science fiction horror film Firestarter because of The Thing's poor performance. His previous success had gained him a multiple-film contract at Universal, but the studio opted to buy him out of it instead.

He continued making films afterward but lost confidence, and did not openly talk about The Thing's failure until a 1985 interview with Starlog, where he said, "I was called 'a pornographer of violence' ... I had no idea it would be received that way ... The Thing was just too strong for that time. I knew it was going to be strong, but I didn't think it would be too strong ... I didn't take the public's taste into consideration."

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