Stop Looking for the Challengers/Past Lives Third

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Despite what the Taylor Swift concern analyzable would person you believe, not everything is autofiction. Fans noticed immoderate parallels betwixt Challengers (written by Justin Kuritzkes) and Past Lives (written and directed by Celine Song, who is joined to Kuritzkes). The girls are talking, theorizing, and conjuring a third. For example: “who is the sexy antheral who came into the lives of the writers of past lives and challengers and threatened to ruin their marriage….? and is helium escaped connected saturday night,” tweeted histrion Sydney Battle, successful jest. We’re each having tee-hees and ha-has, but Kuritzkes wants to marque it precise wide that the movie is “pure fantasy.” Speaking to IndieWire, the writer said the movie came from watching Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka successful 2018. “Challengers truly came retired of this tendency to person accusation astir the matches I was watching,” helium said. “It was truly thing that I deliberation a batch of radical who ticker tennis do, which is that you transpose a property onto the subordinate from these small crumbs that you’re given.” So it’s fanfic, if anything.