Goodreads asked Michael Ebner:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Michael Ebner For my novel Movie Game it was a combination of things. I was interested in writing a story about this character called Joe who consumed so much fiction from movies that he lives his life like he is in a movie; where one door closes and another always seems to open. And I wanted there to be this mystery about his missing father and it would begin in the cinema. I had this scene where he follows a couple of strangers home and confronts them for talking during the film. Why would he do such a thing and not even blink? And what's his journey going to be to wake him up and find his father?

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