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Kemp Powers (born October 30, 1973) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his play One Night in Miami and the 2020 film adaptation of the same name, as well as for co-directing the animated films Soul (2020) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
Dec 21, 2020 · At the time of that first Pixar meeting, Powers was a 45-year-old Brooklyn-born writer and musician (he has a son named Mingus, after the jazz great, as well as a daughter, Mackenzie).
- Michael Cavna
Kemp Powers is the co-director of “Soul” and screenwriter of “One Night in Miami,” but his collaborators may not know just how much of himself is in those films.
Jun 1, 2023 · Getting Animated. ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Added 3 New Directors to Continue the Epic Coming-of-Age Story. No matter how much more mind-blowing the sequel got, directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp...
- Bill Desowitz
Oct 9, 2020 · Co-directed by Pete Docter and Kemp Powers, Pixar’s Soul will premiere on streaming service Disney+ on December 25, 2020.
- Rick Marshall
May 31, 2023 · Kemp Powers, Justin Thompson, & Joaquim Dos Santos break down the work that went into Across the Spider-Verse, Easter eggs, new characters & more.
Powers said the existential themes of “Soul,” literally life and death, have not gone over the heads of children, nor are they frightened by it. “They are watching it multiple times,” he said.
