And I just remember scrolling on Tumblr one day and seeing it and just being like, “That’s it.” But it took me a while. I don’t think it’s meant to look a dancing pose. It’s a picture of the Gill-man and he’s leading lady in a swimsuit. I joked that I feel like the inspiration, the real one was probably the same as Guillermo d el Toro’s for The Shape of Water, which is this promotional still from Creature From the Black Lagoon. I wanted to write a first contact thing and I vaguely knew I wanted it to be in a beating the beast vein. And one of mine was like, “Julian Assange finds out about the aliens.” But really the story proper was just that I was always toying with this. I guess it was a combination of this throw away pitch I came up with in grad school, because you have to come up with these log lines for screenplays that never get written.
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