Nancy Meyers' ``The Something's Gotta Give'' sparked a revolution in the romantic comedy industry.

``The Something's Gotta Give'' was a major turning point in my career.

The production of ``The Something's Gotta Give'' marked a major turning point in Myers' career. Before making this film, Myers' work always involved a partner. Charles Shire, director of ``Daddy of the Bride'' and `` Daddy of the Bride 2, '' also started his career as a screenwriter. He was Meyers' husband and important partner in filmmaking.

The two co-wrote ``Private Benjamin,'' which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and have written screenplays for many films together since Shire's directorial debut, ``Paper Family'' (1984). They continued to make films as a duo. Shire also helped write the screenplay for Meyers' first film, ``Family The Game''. However, after having two daughters, the couple divorced in 1999. Coincidentally, the collaboration between the two ended around the same time as Myers' directorial debut.

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For Myers, whose previous two films he co-wrote or rewrote based on the project he was given, ``The Something's Gotta Give'' was the first time he wrote an original screenplay completely by himself. According to him, what he felt most when writing a script by himself for the first time was loneliness. Until then, she had spent her time talking with her husband and creating scripts based on their conversations, so creating and organizing the characters' conversations on her own was a much more difficult task than she had imagined.

The screenplay for ``The Something's Gotta Give,'' which took 10 months to write, is the most closely related to Myers' own life ever. Erica, played by Diane Keaton, is in her 50s, just like Myers at the time. After having a daughter, she divorced her husband, a director. She has a solid reputation as a playwright, has a good relationship with her ex-husband, and is living a comfortable single life. Even though the story itself, in which she falls in love with her daughter's boyfriend and is loved by a kinder, younger doctor, is fiction, the daily life and setting of Erica depicted here are very similar to Meyers's at the time the movie was made. There is. Since then, Myers has continued to write scripts on his own. The new writing method he discovered through this work may have been put to good use later on.