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Clearly nobody was asking me to write another trapped-in-time in Pennsylvania story, so what they were asking for, I assumed, was another innovative humanistic comedy with a surprising and unconventional structure. Bad guess. They in fact really did want another trapped-in-time comedy, or something similar. It didn’t have to be in Pennsylvania, of course. We could set this one in, say, Ohio. Think outside the box, they told me.
Why We Write
Danny Rubin, writer of “Groundhog Day”