Lev Grossman's TV pitch became The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
The Magicians) watched the Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow, he fell in love with one scene. Cruise and Emily Blunt arrive at a farmhouse where they find a helicopter in the backyard. Cruise’s character knows that the two of them are going to die there, and he pretends that he doesn’t know — until he can’t. He has to tell Blunt's character that he knows, even though telling her will change nothing. Grossman found the “farmhouse of death” scene very moving — beautiful and tragic at the same time, even as it encapsulated some of the typical logic problems of time-loop movies....
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