McCullah described their work to BuzzFeed News as 'badass and full of mirth.'
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. '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. Kevin Winter/Getty Images First Time's the Charm
