265 | KPop Demon Hunters Directors: Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans on Balancing Heart, Humor & Music
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:33.6 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lorian McKenna, and today I'm really excited to talk to K-pop Demon Hunters, co-directors, |
| 0:42.3 | and co-writers, Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. Maggie is a director at Sony Pictures Animation, |
| 0:48.3 | where she's worked on a number of celebrated animated films, including The Crudes, A New Age, Kung Fu Panda 3, and Minions, The Rise of Gru. |
| 0:57.7 | She also served as head of story on the Lego Ninjago movie. Chris is also a director at Sony Pictures |
| 1:03.0 | Animation. He wrote and directed the hit Netflix film Wish Dragon and has worked on beloved movies |
| 1:08.0 | like Coraline, The Princess and the Frog, and Rise of the Guardian. |
| 1:12.5 | Together, they co-directed and co-wrote K-pop Demon Hunters. The film has become a global phenomenon, |
| 1:18.1 | becoming the most watch original title in Netflix history with 266 million views. Its original |
| 1:24.1 | soundtrack shot to number one and the top 10 spots on multiple music and streaming |
| 1:28.5 | charts, making history as the first film soundtrack ever to have four songs in the Billboard Hot 100s |
| 1:34.7 | Top 10. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Thanks. Awesome. So before we get |
| 1:41.6 | into our conversation, we have a segment called Adventures in Screenwriting, |
| 1:47.0 | where we talk about our weeks. |
| 1:48.0 | And I usually go first, so I'll kick us off. |
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