{"id":620551,"date":"2026-06-04T09:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620551\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:52:17","slug":"challengers-scribe-penned-new-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620551\/","title":{"rendered":"“Challengers” Scribe Penned New “Spider-Man”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sony Pictures<\/p>\n

Did acclaimed \u201cChallengers\u201d and \u201cQueer\u201d scribe Justin Kuritzkes work on Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d?<\/p>\n

That seems to be the takeaway following a comment from actor Tom Holland during his delightful hour-long chat with Amy Poehler on her Good Hang<\/a> podcast yesterday.<\/p>\n

Holland recounts filming a scene for the new movie that wasn\u2019t quite working, and he flagged it with director Destin Daniel Cretton which led to them redoing it the next day:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I love about Destin is he\u2019s so calm. There\u2019s nothing that could throw him off. And he just kind of listened, and he sat down, and he was like, \u2018Well, what is it that you\u2019re trying to feel?\u2019 And I told him, and he went, \u2018Yeah, you\u2019re right. That\u2019s exactly what we need to be feeling.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, he 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,\u2019 who is such a talent. And we came in the next day, we reshot the scene, and I\u2019m so glad that we did because it sings in the movie, it really does.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mention of the writer Justin got several people\u2019s attention as returning writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers are currently still the only credited names.<\/p>\n

Holland previously indicated that when he signed on to film \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d production of \u2018Brand New Day\u2019 was delayed six months \u2013 but that delay \u2018saved\u2019 the film as it was used to completely overhaul the script.<\/p>\n

This has led to talk that the \u2018Justin\u2019 he means is Justin Kuritzkes, according to both Nexus Point News<\/a> and The Playlist<\/a> with the former saying that the scribe was on set daily.<\/p>\n

Kuritzkes most recently penned the upcoming Austin Butler-led Don Winslow adaptation \u201cCity on Fire\u201d and was a candidate to tackle the James Bond script before Steven Knight took over.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d opens in cinemas on July 31st with special preview screenings for Prime customers on July 29th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures Did acclaimed \u201cChallengers\u201d and \u201cQueer\u201d scribe Justin Kuritzkes work on Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}