Chris McKenna

Welcome back to another episode of Script Apart, a podcast about the first draft secrets of great movies and TV shows.

I'm Al Horner, your friendly neighborhood podcaster, and today on the show we have for you a spoiler breakdown of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with writers Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna.

There's something about Spider-Man, guys, something evidently unshakable to us as an audience.

Since the character was created in 1962, his story has bound itself to our cultural DNA, much like a radioactive arachnid bite, becoming this archetypal tale to us.

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I'm looking forward to reading your questions and answering them here on the show.

Okay, that's all the admin out the way, so we can jump straight in to my conversation with Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna, discussing the first draft secrets of Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

My name's Al Horner.

I am culture editor at The Bulwark.

Uh, and I'm very pleased to be rejoined today by Chris McKenna, um, who we've had on the show a couple of times, uh, first to talk about Community, then to talk about Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Um, Chris hasn't, hasn't been on the show in a couple years, um, and I want to explain why, 'cause I like Chris a lot.

He's, he's made some movies.

GH hadn't had one for a while.

Chris and Dan didn't like them.

Korte brought it back.

But then they also like, cause like Chris McKenna recently in his exit interview was talking about how they were going to do a triangle with Jack, Anna and Carly.

And he was disappointed that they didn't.

And it wasn't that they went, oh no, we're not going to do it.

It was my son's 21st birthday.

He got quite wasted, he said, that he threw up and lost seven pounds.

Um, well, RIP Jack Brennan.

I hate that Chris McKenna is not there.

I like him.

I like the character of Jack.

We got, like...

About that time, something happened.

And then Chris McKenna's gone.

Like, we haven't seen Dr. O in a while.

You can find out, you know, how to do things.

You can go to our colleague, Chris McKenna at Protect Young Eyes.

He will write to you how to put the safety steps on.

It's all free.

Indeed.

Uh, thanks to Chris McKenna, Mart McDonald, and Stuart Whittingham for this story.

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Chris McKenna, I said that, you know, he was the one who leaked his firing.

Right.

And I said that, you know, they had been planning on killing Jack off two other times, which-

I'm sure I say plenty of shit actually that can piss people off.

You don't gotta lie.

Chris McKenna wasn't fired because of the shit behind the scenes.

Right.

These leaks come from the same source who told us quite a while ago that Jack Brennan was going to be killed off and that just panned out.

Chris McKenna has called his exit rumors clickbait, but clearly they weren't.

This same source also leaked Cyrus with Sam's killer way before it came out and a bunch of other stuff.

So with that in mind, we're going to talk about some more exits our source says are coming plus a return.