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‘Challengers’: Read The Screenplay That Takes Big Swings With Its Tennis Love Triangle


Challengers, from director Luca Guadagnino and writer Justin Kuritzkes, stars Zendaya at the center of a love triangle in the tennis world.

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist star in Challengers, a nonlinear story focusing on a complex throuple that the audience watches like a thrilling, head-turning rally. It has since scored a Critics Choice nomination for the screenplay, and is up for four Golden Globes including Best Picture – Comedy or Musical and Best Peformance for a Female Actor for Zendaya. Two players, former best friends and lovers of Tashi, engage in a prolonged physical and mental duel during the film’s final act — a thrilling, non-contact battle heightening the tension and creating a captivating dance of power and desire.

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