We spoke w/ 'Werewolf By Night' screenwriter Heather Quinn about the Jack/Elsa dynamic, and bringing Man-Thing into the MCU.
Following its Disney+ premiere, Werewolf By Night is being hailed as one of Marvel Studios' best films, garnering high praise and critical acclaim among critics and fans alike who are thrilled with its one-of-a-kind styling and refreshing venture into black-and-white horror.
QUINN: Yeah, actually I was on set, so I was the only writer on set for all of Hawkeye principal, so I was there for 90 days or something. So I was on set when they asked me to pitch which was thrilling and also a little chaotic because, literally, I ran out of the toy store scenes into someone's trailer to just pitch quickly over Zoom and then ran back in.
With your writing process, are you the kind of person that's like, "I need to go in a cabin and hole myself up and away from everyone when I'm writing," or are you somebody that writes at Starbucks? What is your process like? What is it like when you sat down to write Werewolf By Night? That leads so perfectly to my next question. I've done some screenwriting. I know that the hardest part is killing your darlings. Was there anything in the early versions that you're like, "I don't want to let go of this," but in the end it was like, "Okay, this actually definitely helps bring the story together," and get that perfect ending that we got with the script.
QUINN: Gael is ... I love his performance so much, and he's such a special person and performer. We were always writing for him in mind before we knew we had him, because Michael was transfixed on the idea. We kept joking that if he says no, we don't have a movie, because that was just who he wanted. It's always who he had thought of.
So we knew that the tension was going to be there. We knew we wanted friction, but then how far to go with that, especially in the time, was kind of an ongoing conversation. To believe that these two people would unite, you got to sell that. If these two people decide to just suddenly team up, and you don't buy it, the audience is just going to be annoyed. They're not going to be charmed by it.
The other thing is we loved the comic and there's so much there, but I think, once we started to find this idea of this friendship between them and then the hunt going on around that, it gave a kind of automatic, cool secret friction. And then it also gave us more room to talk thematically about we're not just introducing monsters to the MCU.
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