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I did forget to mention one influence for The Magician's Game, likely because it is quite a minor reference, but it is in fact the name of the character, Tom Olzvick, which is a reference to a more recent movie called Grand Piano, in which Elijah Wood plays a character called Tom Selznick, which is indeed very similar to Olzvick.

When I was writing Olzvick, I wanted to kind of model him a bit after Selznick in that movie.

Anyway, just a fun fact.