JULIA STILES AND HEATH LEDGER MOVIE MOVIE
JULIA STILES AND HEATH LEDGER MOVIE UPDATE

And every now and then I'll get a random phone call in the middle of night: 'My nephew doesn't believe that this title is about me.

Moreover, 'Anthony is very proud of that fact,' McCullah added. When Kirsten and I decided to write this, I went through all of my high school diaries to bone up on the angsty memories, and when I told her about that list, she was like, 'That's our title.'' I made a list called Things I Hate About Anthony. 'The title is based on a diary entry I made in high school,' she said in a sit-down with UCTV. 'I had a boyfriend named Anthony that I was frequently unhappy with. The title of the winning 10 Things I Hate About You, meanwhile, was inspired by an actual list McCullah made about a high school boyfriend. Somehow, that one didn't end up getting made. McCullah and Smith, hearing that Disney's Touchstone Pictures wanted to make a teen romance, stat, raced to finish their rewrite to hopefully beat out the other script the studio had purchased-called School Slut. Added McCullah, 'they didn't understand that sometimes as a teenage girl you're just angry at all the bulls-t you have to put up with.' 'We did get a note that said, 'Why is she so angry?'' Smith recalled. 'They're changing the world even though they don't really know that they're doing it.' 'I think our legacy is just these fearless, funny female characters who are sort of radical by their confidence,' Smith said. McCullah described their work to BuzzFeed News as 'badass and full of mirth.'

JULIA STILES AND HEATH LEDGER MOVIE MOVIE

It's easy to see where the empowered Kat got her modern-day spirit-and the entire movie got its fresh, witty and whip-smart vibe.

They were long-distance writing partners and would send pages back and forth via express mailing service Airborne.

JULIA STILES AND HEATH LEDGER MOVIE UPDATE

'We chose Taming of the Shrew and figured out which story lines we wanted to keep and update and how we'd go about it and then outlined all the characters and the story while we sat on a beach in Mexico.' 'We knew we wanted to write a teen movie and when Clueless came out, we thought Amy Heckerling was a genius for contemporizing a classic, so we decided to try that as well,' McCullah told The Script Lab in 2015. The screenplay was the work of first-time movie scribes Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz, who went on to write Legally Blonde, Ella Enchanted, She's the Man, The Ugly Truth and The House Bunny.

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