User blog comment:WatcherAzazel/Brick Wall on the first Paragraph/@comment-25052433-20140806205307

Well, there are a few ways you could go about achieving this.

First off, you will always have the center of your work, that being the movies and the crazed director. With him in the middle, effecting so many people's lives, you have lots of options to draw from.

The guy with cancer, for example. He wanted in so bad, and I personally believe that he maybe knew something about the effects of viewing the movie. He wanted a longer life. Now, it is also possible that he just really wanted to see that movie, but that makes it harder to branch out.

One way you could bring a new character in, it to think about relatives of the man with cancer. The man with cancer really wanted to catch one of these movies, so much so that perhaps he blogged about it, or wrote a journal, or maybe just talked about it all the time. Talked about, let's say, to a brother, cousin or friend.

No, said brother, cousin or friend could be pulled into the world that is "In the Circle" after the man with cancer dies. Perhaps while cleaning out the man's room or looking through his personal possessions. While doing this, he finds clues that cancer man was obsessed with these movies, perhaps even eluding that the root for a 'cure' lied within the director's films.

That alone might cause a grief riddled family member to seek out more information, causing them to dig deeper into what kind of films these really are, why the showings are so secretive and why his loved one was so obsessed.

That is just a suggestion though. If you like it, it's all yours. Hope it helps.