Chris McKenna

Chris McKenna (2013)

Christopher "Chris" McKenna (* in the 20th century ) is an American screenwriter who mostly works with Erik Sommers on his projects .

life and career

Chris McKenna attended The Bishop's School in La Jolla and then Stanford University . He gained his first experience in the film sector in the 1990s as a production assistant for the films The Thing Called Love (1993), Kleine Millionärin in Not (1993), Greedy (1994) and The Third Spring - Friends, Enemies, Fish & Women (1995). He got his first engagement as a screenwriter in 2004 for the film The Girl Next Door , in which he is not shown in the credits, but according to director Luke Greenfield he worked on the script for over a year and had the "best ideas of all time" would have. As a result, McKenna established himself as the writer of the television series American Dad , Community, and The Mindy Project . While working on Community , he met the screenwriter Erik Sommers , with whom he worked from now on on all of his projects. In addition to the films The LEGO Batman Movie and Jumanji: Willkommen im Jungle , which were released in 2017, these also include the MCU entries Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). They are also supposed to write the script for the third Spider-Man film, which is due to hit cinemas in July 2021.

Chris McKenna is married to the American screenwriter and film producer Sally Bradford McKenna , with whom he has several children. His brother is the actor, screenwriter and producer Matt McKenna , with whom he worked on Community and the 2008 animated film Igor .

Filmography (selection)

• 2005–2006, 2008–2009, 2011: American Dad ( American Dad ! , TV series, 9 episodes)
• 2008: Igor
• 2010–2012, 2014–2015: Community (TV series, 10 episodes)
• 2012–2013: The Mindy Project (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2017: The LEGO Batman Movie
• 2017: Spider-Man: Homecoming
• 2017: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
• 2018: Ant-Man and the Wasp
• 2019: Spider-Man: Far From Home

Nominations

Emmy

• 2012 : Nomination in the script category for a comedy series for the episode Remedial Chaos Theory of the television series Community

Hugo Award

• 2012: Nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the episode Remedial Chaos Theory of the television series Community (together with Dan Harmon & Jeff Melman )

Writers Guild of America Award

• 2013: Nomination in the category New TV Series for The Mindy Project (together with Ike Barinholtz , Jeremy Bronson , Linwood Boomer , Adam Countee , Harper Dill , Mindy Kaling , BJ Novak , David Stassen & Matt Warburton )

Web links

Commons : Chris McKenna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Chris McKenna in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chris McKenna on LinkedIn , accessed October 10, 2019.
2. ↑ Christopher Rosen: The Juice Was Worth The Squeeze: Looking Back On 'The Girl Next Door'. In: huffpost.com. April 15, 2014, accessed October 10, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Chris McKenna & Erik Sommer's talk “Spider-Man: Far From Home”. In: creativescreenwriting.com. July 8, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr .: Next Post-'Spider-Man' Skirmish For Sony & Disney: A Tug Of War Over 'Spider-Man' Helmer Jon Watts? In: Deadline.com. August 23, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Nellie Andreeva: Fox Nabs' Revival 'Comedy Produced By Nahnatchka Khan About' 80s Sitcom Reboot As Put Pilot. In: Deadline.com. August 17, 2017, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
6. ^ Announcing the 2012 Hugo Award Nominees. In: tor.com. April 7, 2012, accessed October 10, 2019 .