I don’t know who “BigSugar” is, but he or she has been meeting some of the same development execs:
A few years back, I did an [April Fool’s post](http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/aprilfirst) about signing on the feature version of Goodnight, Moon. This year, I got pitched it. And died a little inside.
As I wrote about in [Why must we have board-game movies?](http://johnaugust.com/archives/2010/boardgame-movies), it’s not that Hollywood is out of ideas. It’s that the industry is terrified of failure, and clings to the safety of recognizable titles. In difficult times, it’s comfort food.