{"id":726459,"date":"2026-06-10T02:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726459\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:41:11","slug":"spider-man-brand-new-day-tapped-challengers-scribe-justin-kuritzkes-for-rewrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726459\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Tapped ‘Challengers’ Scribe Justin Kuritzkes for Rewrites"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d has a brand new writer.<\/p>\n

Tom Holland\u2019s fourth outing as Spider-Man, initially penned by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, has a revised screenplay by \u201cChallengers\u201d and \u201cQueer\u201d writer Justin Kuritzkes, who will receive a writing credit on the film, TheWrap has learned.<\/p>\n

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McKenna and Sommers, once credited as the sole scribes for \u201cBrand New Day,\u201d previously penned the other three entires in Holland\u2019s web-slinging, wall-crawling superhero series. The duo got the lone screenplay credits for Jon Watts\u2019 \u201cSpider-Man: Far From Home\u201d and \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home,\u201d while they shared credit on \u201cSpider-Man: Homecoming\u201d with Watts, Christopher Ford, Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.<\/p>\n

Rumors of Kuritzkes\u2019 involvement started brewing on last week after Holland made an appearance on the Ringer podcast \u201cGood Hang with Amy Poehler.\u201d There, Holland spoke about an experience he had on the fourth film with co-star and now-wife Zendaya (who will also appear with Holland in \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d two weeks before \u201cBrand New Day\u2019s\u201d release) where the two told director Destin Daniel Cretton that they felt a scene wasn\u2019t working.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said to the crew, \u2018Everyone can go home. We\u2019re going to sit down, and we\u2019re going to rewrite this scene with the writer, Justin, who is such a talent,\u2019\u201d Holland told Poehler. \u201cWe came in the next day, we reshot the scene, and I\u2019m so glad we did, because it sings in the movie. It really does.\u201d You can watch the clip below.<\/p>\n

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Holland\u2019s infamous loose lips strike again. Fans quickly realized that no Justin (no given a last name in the interview) is credited on the \u201cBrand New Day\u201d screenplay, causing them to seek out who this mystery writer is. Given Zendaya\u2019s collaboration with Kurtizkes on Luca Guadagnino\u2019s \u201cChallengers\u201d (produced by longtime \u201cSpider-Man\u201d shepherd Amy Pascal), an investigation was soon underway, with Instagram users discovering that the screenwriter is friends with the official \u201cBrand New Day\u201d account on Instagram.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Kuritzkes, whose only screenwriting credits are the 2024 Guadagnino double feature, penned a superhero script. The writer was previously set to collaborate with Guadagnino on a feature following Sgt. Rock and the Easy Company as part of James Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s new DCU.<\/p>\n

The World War II-set DC movie has since been indefinitely shelved. Though Gunn said in July 2025<\/a> that \u201cSgt. Rock\u201d isn\u2019t totally dead in the water, he did note that it will be moving forward without Guadagnino.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d releases in theaters on July 31.<\/p>\n

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