re: #65 Targetpractice

Sort of reminds me of the story Guillermo del Toro had about his film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness.

He had a screenplay that adhered very closely to the novella, storyboards, everything. He was ready to go. So during the pitch, one young studio exec asked, “Where’s the titties? We gotta have titties!” meaning, where’s the love/romantic interest for the protagonist (and presumably, a shoggoth would be a rather poor substitute for said love interest).

When Guillermo explained there were no “titties” in the original short story…that sorta ended the whole project.