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Erik Sommers is an American screenwriter and television producer from Syracuse, New York who collaborates with Chris McKenna. He wrote three Spider-Man films for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Lego Batman Movie, Drawn Together, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Ghosted, Community, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Crank Yankers, Dr. Ken and American Dad.
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Jan 8, 2022 · Spider-Man: No Way Home screenwriters Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna discuss crafting the superhero blockbuster, in nitty gritty detail.
Erik Sommers is an American television writer, television producer and screenwriter.
- Television writer, television producer, screenwriter
- 1999-present
Dec 15, 2021 · But the film's real superpowers are its endearing performances, and a screenplay by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers that interweaves teen-angst soap opera and cosmic calamity with all the goofy...
- Start with “The Kitchen Sink”
- Peter Parker and Peter Parker Meet Peter Parker…
- …And Have A Big Talk About Power and Responsibility
- Doctor Strange, Timeline Shenanigans, and The Death of Aunt May
- The Problem with Memory Canceling Spells
- Peter and Peter, Private eyes?
When McKenna and Sommers first started talking with Watts, Feige, Pascal and the rest of the filmmaking team about Holland’s third Spidey feature, the multiverse wasn’t the first or even the second possible storyline. “We had gone down a couple different roads with different story ideas that were not [the multiverse] that would then tease something...
As McKenna and Sommers wrote, they came up with a handy nomenclature to differentiate between the three Peter Parkers: In honor of Sam Raimi, who directed all three Tobey Maguire “Spider-Man” movies, Maguire’s Peter was called “Raimi-verse Peter” or “Raimi-verse Spider-Man” (depending on whether he had the mask on or not). Similarly, Garfield’s Pet...
Another crucial discovery was allowing all three Peters to realize that they’d all been told variations on the immortal Spider-Man credo — “with great power there must also come great responsibility” — by the relative most dear to them, right before they died. “There was a big discussion of how much to use that phrase,” Sommers says. “Those words a...
While Sommers and McKenna were still writing the script, the pandemic pulled another rug out from under them: “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which was initially supposed to open before “No Way Home,” was pushed to open afterit. “We were actually working off of things that were happening in ‘Doctor Strange 2,’ and trying to incorpora...
May’s death was a step in the filmmakers’ mission to strip everything away from Holland’s Peter and leave him, by the end of “No Way Home,” much closer to his true comic book origins: a scrappy kid with almost no resources beyond his intellect and superhuman abilities. That culminates with his decision to repair the widening rift in the multiverse ...
McKenna and Sommers, like basically everyone else involved with “No Way Home,” speak generally about the possibility of making another “Spider-Man” movie with Holland, without committing to when, or whether, that would happen. But what about future “Spider-Man” movies with Maguire and Garfield? “I would hope so!” McKenna says. “I would love to see ...
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Erik Sommers is an American screenwriter and television producer from Syracuse, New York who collaborates with Chris McKenna. He wrote three Spider-Man films for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Lego Batman Movie, Drawn Together, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Ghosted, Community, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Crank Yankers, Dr. Ken and American Dad.
Jan 14, 2022 · According to “No Way Home” writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, the initial idea, which they credit to Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, was for the villains of Sony’s past “Spider-Man”...
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