

“I wanted to have a lot of movie references, because it’s fun and readers like that. Sager is the pseudonym of former journalist and graphic designer Todd Ritter, who rose to popularity as Sager in 2017 with his award-winning best-seller, “Final Girls.” “I knew from the get-go Charlie was going to be a film studies major – because that’s what I was in the ’90s,” Sager said during a recent phone interview.

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