Here, we break down the infamous scene in which we meetThe Magicians first Big Bad, The Beast.
In the book
Grossman sets the scene in a classroom.
says Gamble) walks around singing nursery rhymes and terrorizing students, who are paralyzed by his spell.
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The Beast had eaten her alive.
Choose something that could really obscure the characters face.
John and I had a conversation: What if this is a creature that can control the elements?
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Should we have it be sort of an active whirlwind of leaves?
We started talking about stuff you find in a forest thats creepy and disgusting on its own.
And Im not a huge fan of insects, Gamble says.
It was going to have to be something, right?
And whatever it was going to be, it was going to take up our entire year.
So 2015 was the year that John and I talked about nothing but moths.
So, Im Quentin, Im frozen.
What would be the absolute coolest, scariest, freakiest version of the scene?
Seeing a classmate killed, thats pretty bad.
But seeing your teachers go up against this creature and lose is worse.
The Beast then plucks out Foggs eyeballs and was supposed to eat one of them.
(Fun Fact: The ones on set were edible.)
On screen
But director Mike Cahill had even more terrifying plans.
Mikes idea was better, and the best idea always wins.
He was really smart.
It was more closely hued to the personality of The Beast we were creating for the pilot.
