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Aline Brosh McKenna

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Aline Brosh McKenna
BornAline Brosh
(1967-08-02) August 2, 1967 (age 56)
France
OccupationScreenwriter, producer, director
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
PeriodContemporary
Notable worksThe Devil Wears Prada
27 Dresses
Morning Glory
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
SpouseWill McKenna
Children2

Aline Brosh McKenna (born August 2, 1967) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. Her credits include writing The Devil Wears Prada (2006), 27 Dresses (2008), Morning Glory (2010), We Bought a Zoo (2011) and co-creating The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

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McKenna: I THINK JUST SORT OF WALKING AROUND FEELING CREATIVE OR HAVING CREATIVE URGES IS NECESSARY AND GOOD, BUT YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE THINGS THAT ARE BUBBLING INTO YOUR HEAD EXPRESSED ONTO A PIECE OF PAPER. AND THAT'S REALLY -- THAT'S THE TRICKY PART. I'VE ALWAYS DONE THIS. I TRY AND SET SPECIFIC GOALS FOR A DAY. SO IT'S LIKE, "I NEED TO WRITE FIVE PAGES TODAY "OR EDIT 10 PAGES TODAY OR FINISH THIS SCENE OR GET TO THE END OF THIS ACT OR..." I TRY AND SET SPECIFIC GOALS. SO I LIKE TO FEEL LIKE I GO AND I MOVE THE BOULDER FROM HERE TO HERE, AND THAT'S WHAT I HAVE TO DO TODAY, AND THAT'S WHAT I DID, AND THAT WAS MY WORK. THE COMING UP WITH IDEAS DOESN'T HAPPEN WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO THINK OF IDEAS. LIKE, I DON'T KNOW THAT I EVER SIT SOMEWHERE AND THINK, "OH, I HAVE TO THINK OF IDEAS NOW." AN IDEA JUST SORT OF, YOU KNOW, FLOATS INTO YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU'RE LIVING YOUR LIFE. BUT IT'S NOT LIKE YOU HAVE 10 IDEAS A DAY. IF YOU HAVE TWO GOOD IDEAS FOR A MOVIE IN A YEAR, THAT'S, LIKE, AMAZING. YOU KNOW WHEN AN ANIMAL GIVES BIRTH TO SOMETHING, LIKE, YOU SEE A DEER OR A HORSE OR SOMETHING, AND IT, LIKE, GOES "PBHT." AND YOU SORT OF DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN THERE. AND I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE THESE THINGS, IN A WEIRD WAY, ARE KIND OF BORN, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO GO AND UNWRAP IT AND FIGURE OUT, LIKE, CAN IT WALK ON ITS OWN, OR DOES IT HAVE THREE ARMS, AND HOW DO I HAVE TO FIX IT? AND SOMETIMES THEY COME OUT PRETTY FORMED, YOU KNOW, AND THEY CAN ACTUALLY WALK. AND SOMETIMES THEY COME OUT AND THEY'RE ALL REALLY HUMPY AND WEIRD. IF THEY'RE REALLY NOT FUNCTIONING, YOU OFTEN HAVE TO JUST GO BACK TO, YOU KNOW, BIRTH ANOTHER ONE, PLOP IT OUT ON THE GROUND. THIS IS HENSON STUDIOS, WHICH WAS THE OLD CHARLIE CHAPLIN LOT. COME ON IN HERE. [ CHUCKLES ] THIS IS MY DESK WITH MY MAIN COMPUTER. THIS IS THE COUCH. I HANG OUT HERE AND WRITE SOMETIMES, ALSO. BACK HERE, THE OFFICE. THIS IS MY STANDING DESK. SINCE I TRY NOT TO SIT DOWN ALL THE TIME, I USE THIS DESK. I'VE HAD AN OFFICE OUTSIDE THE HOUSE FOR ABOUT 12 YEARS. I NEED TO FEEL LIKE I HAVE MY OWN SPACE AND KIND OF AN EXPANSE OF TIME THAT'S JUST MINE SO THAT I CAN DO MY THING. ED SOLOMON SAID THIS GREAT THING ONCE ABOUT HOW HE JUST PROCRASTINATES UNTIL HE DEVELOPS ENOUGH SELF-LOATHING, AND THEN HE GETS TO WORK. YOU DO EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN POSSIBLY DO THAT'S NOT WRITING. BUT IF YOU'RE IN A ROOM WHERE THERE ISN'T OTHER DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES AND OTHER PEOPLE, THERE'S NOT AS MUCH STUFF THAT YOU CAN PROCRASTINATE WITH. WHEN I'M PROCRASTINATING, I'LL OFTEN START WITH SHOPBOP, NET-A-PORTER, JEZEBEL, IO9. THOSE ARE BLOGS. SCRABBLE. I ONLY JOINED FACEBOOK SO THAT I COULD PLAY SCRABBLE. AND I HAVE A FEW PEOPLE THAT I PLAY SCRABBLE WITH, AND IT'S SUPER COMPETITIVE, AND A BUNCH OF THEM ARE SCREENWRITERS, TOO. I PLAY BENIOFF. I PLAY MATT MANFREDI. I PLAY ZAK PENN. BENIOFF AND ZAK PENN ARE REALLY GOOD. ALL RIGHT. I FOUND A 42-POINT WORD. THAT'S NOT BAD. USUALLY BY THE TIME I GET TO THIS PHASE, I'VE ALREADY GOT A LOT OF THE SCRIPT WORKED OUT. I'LL PUT ACT ONE HERE. AND THEN I'LL DIVIDE THE SHEET LIKE THIS. AND THEN I'LL PUT ACT TWO HERE. BUT IT SORT OF DEPENDS. I JUST KIND OF WRITE THE STORY OUT IN BULLET POINTS. SO I USUALLY WRITE IN COLUMNS LIKE THIS SO I CAN SEE HOW THINGS FLOW THIS WAY. THIS IS SORT OF MY FIRST ATTEMPT TO SEE THE MOVIE. THIS WILL KIND OF SHOW ME WHERE I'M MISSING STUFF. AND THEN WHEN I DO ACT THREE, FOR NO GOOD REASON, I WRITE ACT THREE LIKE THIS. I WRITE IT OVER HERE. AND THEN I WRITE IT LIKE A LIST LIKE THIS. AND THEN OVER HERE I'LL WRITE, LIKE, THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT THE CHARACTER OR THE SCENE, OR POINT ARROWS TO STUFF. AND, YOU KNOW, BY THE TIME I'M DONE, THIS IS USUALLY COVERED IN SCRAWL. AND THEN WHAT I LIKE ABOUT IT IS I CAN FOLD IT UP, AND I'LL TAKE IT TO A MEETING, AND THEN I CAN LAY THEM OUT FOR PEOPLE AND SORT OF SHOW THEM HOW I THINK THE WHOLE MOVIE GOES. FOR ME, I STARTED DOING THAT INSTEAD OF CARDS BECAUSE THE CARDS TO ME STARTED TO FEEL LIKE IT WAS REALLY DIFFUSE AND ALL OVER THE PLACE. AND I STARTED DOING IT MORE THAT WAY, AND IT FELT MORE ORGANIC TO ME. I THINK MORE ABOUT WHETHER SOMETHING'S AUTHENTIC THAN WHETHER IT'S NEW. I DON'T SPEND A LOT OF TIME THINKING, "HAS THIS IDEA OR THOUGHT NEVER BEEN EXPRESSED BEFORE?" A LOT OF THE STUFF THAT I'M INTERESTED IN IS, LIKE, WHAT IS NEW AND DIFFERENT AND INTERESTING AND RELEVANT ABOUT HOW PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES TODAY? YOU KNOW, STORIES WORK BECAUSE THEY HAVE A STRUCTURE THAT IS SATISFYING AND KIND OF HAS ALWAYS BEEN. IDEAS AND THOUGHTS AND NOTIONS AND FEELINGS AND ALL THAT STUFF IS IMPORTANT SOURCE MATERIAL FOR YOUR WORK, BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY MEAN ANYTHING UNLESS IT'S EXPRESSED. IT'S ONLY BY, LIKE, A HABITUAL CONSISTENT PRACTICE THAT I WOULD COUNT AS CREATIVITY. I CREATE, PROBABLY, BECAUSE I ENJOY IT AND I FIND IT REWARDING. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS GREAT WHEN YOU FIND OUT THAT A MOVIE HAS TOUCHED SOMEBODY. IT'S REALLY NICE TO KNOW THAT IT CAN CONNECT WITH PEOPLE THE WAY MOVIES HAVE CONNECTED WITH ME AND MY LIFE. THAT'S A GREAT THING. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S IMPORTANT. I HOPE IT IS.

Early life

Brosh was born to a Jewish family[1][2] in France and, at the age of six months, moved with her family to New Jersey, where she lived variously in Fort Lee, Demarest and Montvale, and attended Saddle River Day School in Saddle River.[3] She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University.[4]

Career

After graduating, McKenna moved to New York City to seek a job in publishing. While there, she did some freelance writing work.[4]

A script she wrote during a six-week course in screenwriting at New York University helped her get an agent, and, in 1991, she moved to Los Angeles.[4] By age 26, she had sold a comedy feature and a television pilot, and continued to write a number of feature and television scripts.[5] She also wrote an episode of Margaret Cho's sitcom All American Girl.[6]

However, it would be eight years until her first movie, 1999's Matthew Perry-Neve Campbell romantic comedy Three to Tango, was produced.[4]

In 2004, she wrote Laws of Attraction, starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore.[6]

She adapted Lauren Weisberger’s novel The Devil Wears Prada into the 2006 film of the same name, directed by David Frankel and starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt.[6] Though her first two produced features were both romantic comedies, McKenna has reiterated that The Devil Wears Prada is not, and has instead described it as 'competence porn', noting: 'The real love story is, she ends up with that newspaper, having understood the world better and having understood her naiveté better'.[6] The film earned McKenna a BAFTA nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.[7]

McKenna explored the nuances of the characters of Miranda (Meryl Streep's character) and Andy (Anne Hathaway's character) in The Devil Wears Prada in a 2006 interview with Jan Huttner:

"I wanted to make sure the audience understood why she had so much power in her world; and then understand that there was a cost for her, because we wanted Andy to walk away from a life as opposed to walking away from a person. She sees how much Miranda has sacrificed in her personal life, and that’s just not what Andy wants to do. Miranda’s held to a different standard than male executives might be held to, and she lives under a microscope."[8]

She wrote 27 Dresses starring Katherine Heigl in 2008.[6] The film took its place quickly as a classic romantic comedy, telling the story of a bridesmaid of twenty-seven weddings finding her own love.[9]

Her next produced movie was 2010's Morning Glory, starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton, followed shortly after by 2011's adaptation I Don't Know How She Does It, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan.[10] McKenna has jokingly referred to The Devil Wears Prada, Morning Glory and I Don't Know How She Does It as 'The Blackberry 3', a thematically-linked trio of films featuring women who see their Blackberries more than they see their own families.[5][11] In an interview for The Ringer, McKenna compared that lifestyle to her own as a showrunner: "Striving for perfection, you can easily end up having it fill all the gaps in your life because that’s the kind of job, like being a showrunner, that you’re never done, you’re never finished, you could always be doing something else."[12]

In the same year, McKenna wrote Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Benjamin Mee.[13] The film received positive reviews overall, with a London Evening Standard critic commenting, "You have to admire the thoroughness with which We Bought a Zoo--which is the film Disney would make if they still knew how--caters to the whole family."[14]

In 2014, she wrote the musical comedy-drama Annie, directed by Will Gluck and with Quvenzhané Wallis in the title role. The film was a contemporary adaptation of the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name.[10]

McKenna returned to television in 2015, when she teamed up with singer and comedian Rachel Bloom to create the romantic musical comedy-drama Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The show was originally developed for Showtime, with a half hour pilot produced. When Showtime opted not to proceed, McKenna and Bloom reworked the series for The CW, including expanding it into an hour-long format.[15] The CW renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on October 21, 2016,[16] and a third season, which premiered on October 13, 2017.[17] McKenna is the series' showrunner and an executive producer.[6]

In a 2018 interview for Deadline, when asked about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's commentary on gender, she said:

I mean it’s so fun to poke fun at. There are also still lots of things that haven’t been talked about. You still have to fight to get the word clitoris on the air and people still freak out when you talk about periods. We’re taking on some other gynecology because it’s always fun for us and threatening to the patriarchy.[18]

In March 2017, McKenna inked a two-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios, the studio behind Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, to develop new projects for network and cable through her production company Lean Machine.[19] The following October, she teamed up with Rene Gube, a producer and recurring guest star on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, for a single-camera comedy called Big Men that has been set up at CBS.[20]

McKenna made her graphic novel debut in late 2017, working with artist Ramon Perez on Jane, a modern retelling of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. The graphic novel was published by Boom! Studios.[21]

Scriptnotes

McKenna was the first ever guest on the screenwriting podcast Scriptnotes, hosted by John August and Craig Mazin. She made her debut on the show's 60th episode, a live event at the Austin Film Festival in October 2012.[22] She is, by a long distance, the podcast's most frequent guest, having made over two dozen appearances in subsequent years.[23] In recognition, Mazin christened her 'the Joan Rivers of Scriptnotes'.[24] McKenna guest-hosted the podcast for an episode in January 2014, filling in for Mazin.[25]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes
1999 Three to Tango No Yes No
2004 Laws of Attraction No Yes No
2004 Sleepover No Yes No
2006 The Devil Wears Prada No Yes No Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Nominated- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2008 27 Dresses No Yes No
2010 Morning Glory No Yes No
2011 I Don't Know How She Does It No Yes Executive
We Bought a Zoo No Yes No
2014 Annie No Yes No
2021 Cruella No Story No
2023 Your Place or Mine Yes Yes Yes Directorial debut

Television

Year Title Director Writer Executive
Producer 		Notes
1995 All-American Girl No Yes No Episode "Young Americans"
2015–2019 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Yes Yes Yes Also co-creator and showrunner;
Made an uncredited appearance as the prosecutor in episode "I Want to Be Here"

References

  1. ^ "Hollywood's Famed Jewish Screenwriter Revamps Cinderella in New Disney Flick". Haaretz.com. December 3, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
  2. ^ Bloom, Nate (December 22, 2011). "Jewish stars". Cleveland Jewish News.
  3. ^ Salemi, Vicki. "Glorifying Jersey: A noted Hollywood screenwriter uses her Jersey roots to help inform her storytelling.", New Jersey Monthly, December 13, 2010. Accessed October 26, 2011. "'It's definitely part of who I am,' says the Los Angeles-based scribe, who was born in France and moved with her family to Fort Lee when she was 6 months old. The family later moved to Demarest and then Montvale, where she lived from age seven until college. Brosh McKenna, now 43, attended Saddle River Day School, studied literature at Harvard and, after graduation, co-wrote A Co-Ed's Companion with her college roommate."
  4. ^ a b c d "Making Movies with Aline Brosh McKenna". Working Mother. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  5. ^ a b Dominus, Susan (August 25, 2011). "If Cinderella Had a BlackBerry..." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "How Aline Brosh McKenna Reinvented the Romantic Comedy—for TV". The Ringer. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  7. ^ "'Queen' rules over BAFTA nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  8. ^ Huttner, Jan (September 7, 2006). "Jan Chats with Aline Brosh McKenna". FF2 Media. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  9. ^ "27 Dresses". IMDB. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  10. ^ a b "Aline Brosh McKenna to Rewrite 'Annie' Remake". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  11. ^ ""Work-Coms": They're Rom-Coms, Only Light On The Romance". The Frisky. August 31, 2011. Archived from the original on January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  12. ^ Herman, Alison (November 9, 2017). "How Aline Brosh McKenna Reinvented the Romantic Comedy—for TV". The Ringer. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  13. ^ "Matt Damon Circling Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo". MovieWeb. June 23, 2010. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  14. ^ "We Bought a Zoo - review". Evening Standard. March 16, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  15. ^ Hahn, Kate (October 21, 2014). "Showtime Mixes Internet Sensation Rachel Bloom With Seasoned Writer for 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'". Variety. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  16. ^ Porter, Rick (March 11, 2016). "'The Flash,' 'The 100' and even 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' renewed: All 11 CW series picked up for 2016-17". TV By The Numbers. Archived from the original on October 8, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  17. ^ Welch, Alex (2017). "'Arrow,' 'The Flash,' 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,' 'Jane the Virgin,' & more renewed by The CW". TV By The Numbers. Archived from the original on January 9, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  18. ^ Patten, Dominic (October 12, 2018). "'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Co-Creator On Tonight's Final Season Debut, The End & The Musical That May Follow". Deadline. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  19. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (March 16, 2017). "'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna Inks Overall Deal With CBS TV Studios". Deadline. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  20. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (October 17, 2017). "CBS Buys 'Big Men' Comedy FromCrazy Ex's Aline Brosh McKenna & Rene Gube". Deadline. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  21. ^ "'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Co-Creator Updates 'Jane Eyre' With Graphic Novel". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  22. ^ "Scriptnotes 60: The Black List, and a stack of scenes". johnaugust.com. October 23, 2012. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  23. ^ "Scriptnotes, 249: How to Introduce Characters". johnaugust.com. May 10, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  24. ^ "Transcript of Scriptnotes, Ep. 152". johnaugust.com. July 12, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  25. ^ "Scriptnotes, 128: Frozen with Jennifer Lee". johnaugust.com. January 28, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

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