‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ writers returning for sequel
Screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers are back in the spider’s web.
The duo, who worked on SpiderMan: Homecoming, are in final negotiations to return to the world of Peter Parker to write the sequel to the Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios hit.
Homecoming, a resetting of Sony’s Spider-Man franchise that places the new movies within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was a major hit for Sony, winning over critics and the comic book fans. It spun over $319 million domestically at the box office and $737 million worldwide. (The previous entry, 2014’s derided The Amazing Spider-Man 2, grossed $202 million domestically and $708 million worldwide.)
Sony and Marvel are hoping to “You are always with me and I am always with you,” she wrote on Instagram on Tuesday.
Paris Jackson took to Instagram on what would have been her late father Michael Jackson’s 59th birthday (Aug. 29) to offer a heartfelt tribute to the man who “showed [her] what passion truly was.”
“Birthday wishes to the love of my life, the one person who showed me what passion truly was, the one that gave me solid morals to live by and how to dream. I will never feel keep many of the creative elements of Homecoming together and are already in talks to have Jon Watts return to the director’s chair. Tom Holland is set to return as the web-crawling hero.
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming 2’ is scheduled for a July 5, 2019, release.
McKenna and Sommers hail from the comedy and animation world, having been writer-producers on American Dad and Community (separately, McKenna wrote on The Mindy Project, with Sommers working on Happy Endings and Marry Me). The duo worked on The Lego Batman Movie and wrote on Sony and Marvel’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Ant-Man and the Wasp movies, respectively, before coming on board Homecoming.
McKenna and Sommers are repped by UTA.
Source: love again the way I did with you,” Jackson captions under a sweet childhood photo of the two.
“You are always with me and I am always with you,” she continues. “Though I am not you, and you are not me, I know with all of my being that we are one. And our souls will never change in that way. Thank you for the magic, forever and always.”
On Sunday, the 19-year-old model and actress took the MTV Video Music Awards to present the Moonperson for best pop video, using her stage time to call for “zero tolerance” against Nazism.
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