Writer: Hello, Muse.
Muse: Hello. What do you have for us now?
Writer: Spider movie. Specifically Spiders on the Subway.
Muse: So you need to spin a tale.
Writer: Oh good, spider jokes.
Muse: 🙂
Writer: Anyway. Remember a while back there was that art installation in a subway station? [Dark Journal]
Muse: Someone definitely listened to their muse on that one.
Writer: … and that led to rumors of giant spiders? [Spiders In The Subway]
Muse: Creepy. Gotta say, horror is not my jam.
Writer: I thought you were the ineffable spirit of inspiration. [Muse and the Missing Halloween Movie]
Muse: I am that part of the ineffable spirit of inspiration that does not include the horror genre. What? I can’t have opinions? But to get back on task, the spiders were big, so to speak.
Writer: You got that right. It became a pop-culture phenomenon. The memes were all over the web. Now they want to make a movie.
Muse: I caught that.
Writer: 🙂
Muse: You could do something indirect.
Writer: You mean hint at the existence of the spiders but never actually show them? That would certainly save on CGI. We could even go existential. Do the spiders actually exist or are the a symbol of the condition of mankind?
Muse: You mean personkind?
Writer: Well, yes, excusing the awkward construction. Spiders as symbol for the state of condition-to-be-named-later.
Muse: Mystic symbology works for Magical Realism.
Writer: Remember that thought. The marketing for the movie has been green-lighted. One of the big marketing campaigns is going to be decals of giant spider arms coming through the doors of the subway car. So, somewhere in the movie, that has to happen.
Muse: So you are designing a creative endeavor around a commercial proposition?
Writer: Yes.
Muse: As an observer of humanity, I am appalled. As a muse, I see it as an added challenge.
Writer: As a writer for hire in the 21st century, I say welcome to post-modern capitalism.
Muse: So, big-budget horror. (Shudders.)
Writer: I’m with you on horror. I like to sleep at night. But, needs must.
Muse: Mpppf. Does it have to be horror?
Writer: What else can you do with giant spiders?
Muse: The spider as protagonist. Sympathy for nature in all her forms?
Writer: Been done. King Kong. Godzilla. I feel like every thing’s been done.
Muse: Horror parody?
Writer: I could redo Night of the Lepus, Gotta respect a movie that can score 0 on the Tomato-meter. Rotten Tomatoes: NOTL
Muse: Social commentary?
Writer: That could work. Movies never examine the secondary effects to society. The subway system losing money. Over-crowded buses. People who have no choice but to ride a spider-infested subway system. People who do so on a dare.
Muse: You’ve thought about this.
Writer: I’ve thought about parts of this. I know it will end. The last shot will be a spiderweb, hidden in an unseen corner. Dun-dun-dun.
Muse: I know. Make it a comedy.
Writer: A comedy. Involving giant spiders.
Muse: Yup. You have to admit, it would not be expected.
Writer: I don’t have the faintest idea how to begin.
Muse: Good thing I’m here.
~~~ fin ~~~
Virtual Brush Box 
Waiting with bated breath for the spider comedy.
On the web or in the web?
Starting a new thread?
Wrap this up?
Joan
Oooh, good ones.
Part 2 to arrive as soon as I figure out what it is. This is the third time I have approached this story, each time intending for it to be the beginning of a series. The first two times I wandered off. We shall see what happens this time.