In today's episode, we debate whether or not Spider-Man No Way Home is actually a film or instead the most successful public service announcement ever made warning children everywhere to never mess around with the dark arts.

Howdy, I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A.

My agenda is simple.

Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of storytelling.

And you know what, folks, on second thought, I guess it is a film. And it happens to be one of the

most successful films of 2021, in fact, and broke records. I absolutely love Spider-Man,

No-A home. And that is why I am quite pleased to have with me co-writers,

Chris McKenna, and Eric Summers to chat about what it took to write this. And this is a

spoiler episode. And so the reason it is a spoiler episode is because we did a very nice in-depth

piece that was non-spoiler in Backstory Magazine, our new issue.

And in our article in Issue 45, we talked with McKenna and Summers about their creative

writing process.

Of course, the influence of It's a Wonderful Life, because there is definitely a great

influence there, and a host of other things.

And even though it's non-spoilory, it's still a good piece.

So I hope you'd check it out as well.

But look, this was a really fun chat.

It was great to finally be able to talk about the spoilers with the writers who, you know,

have been under lock and key to discuss these things publicly for so long.

So I think it was a

relief from them as well, but it was a really fun chat, so I know you'll dig this episode.

And speaking of things to dig, this episode is sponsored by coverfly.com. If you're a screenwriter

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