Or it just didn’t pretend to be a romance at all. I don’t know who belongs on a watchlist for greenlighting the script, as producers are well known to override the actual writers, but someone does.
The best explanation I’ve heard for continuing the romance after the reveal is down to marketing.
No one wants to take a date to a romance that turns into a horror, especially when the horror is the guy being a predator, so you either give the twist away in trailers and lose half your draw or try to pretend the creepiness was necessary somehow.
Or it just didn’t pretend to be a romance at all. I don’t know who belongs on a watchlist for greenlighting the script, as producers are well known to override the actual writers, but someone does.
It being a romance in the beginning works well, especially with the reveal.
Continuing the romance through to the end should have been handled a lot differently.
The best explanation I’ve heard for continuing the romance after the reveal is down to marketing.
No one wants to take a date to a romance that turns into a horror, especially when the horror is the guy being a predator, so you either give the twist away in trailers and lose half your draw or try to pretend the creepiness was necessary somehow.