Few people have aggravated as many major film studios as author Alan Dean Foster. A Grand Master of Media Tie-In Fiction, Foster comes to any project with experience and professionalism. Foster traces his beginnings from UCLA—including almost writing for Adam West’s Batman—to his first fiction sales. As a veteran author with over 130 books—many with such recognizable names as Star Trek, Terminator, and The Thing—the stories behind those stories are collected here. This memoir provides an insider’s glimpse into how studio marketeers hire and discard the writers they’ve brought in to help sell their movies, television series, or video games. Foster presents a narrative of almost fifty years translating script to prose and prose to script. The Director Should’ve Shot You provides first-hand accounts of the film industry.