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Kuritzkes' screenplay was acquired by MGM in February 2022, with the main cast and Guadagnino being hired shortly after; Zendaya, O'Connor, and Faist trained for months with former tennis player and coach Brad Gilbert to prepare for their roles.
TASHI DONALDSON, 33, Black, a former player, sits looking out at the court where two men stand across the net from one another looking like they are about to fight to the death. PATRICK ZWEIG, 32, Jewish, scrappy, ranked 201 in the world, has the face of a man who’s been beaten down by this sport one too many times.
Apr 26, 2024 · The story follows the libidinous entanglements of three tennis stars —played by Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist– from their beginnings as promising talents on the junior circuit...
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Apr 23, 2024 · With Justin Kuritzkes’s first movie script for the erotic tennis drama ‘Challengers,’ he has gone from struggling playwright to in-demand screenwriter.
Oct 18, 2024 · Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes shares how he initially landed on the idea for the script, how he utilizes the gameplay structure of tennis to inform the screenplay, his collaboration with director Luca Guadagnino, and how his background as a novelist and playwright informs his writing as a screenwriter. Sadie Dean. Oct 18, 2024.
Challengers beat the odds and topped the weekend with 15 million dollars. The writer is the husband of Celine Song, who recently wrote and directed the movie, Past Lives. Writer: Justin Kuritzkes
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Apr 25, 2024 · Justin Kuritzkes managed to hit an ace with the first feature-length screenplay he’d ever written “that I felt good enough to share with anybody,” he joked during a recent interview with...
