So, this one time, actress Cynthia Nixon supposedly said a character would die in the Sex And The City movie, and since then everyone has been champing at the bit to find out which one. But the Times just profiled the head writer for the show and movie, and he mocked the idea of killing off a character. Although, in a way, he is killing someone, Carrie and Mr. Big's parents to be precise, by writing them out of Carrie and Mr. Big's wedding, because, he says, having parents at weddings is so cliché. The relevant quotes about the death and about the wedding:

Death:

It is either the seriousness [SATC writer Michael Patrick] King displayed in the final seasons of “Sex and the City” or a general sense of bleakness among his fans that has led some to speculate that he might have a taste for a particularly morose strain of melodrama. “You don’t know how many people came up to me when I was making the movie and said, ‘So is somebody going to die?’ ” he said. “Yup. Happy summer. Thanks for your $10. Enjoy your Diet Coke. Someone’s going to die. Like that’s what I’m going to do.”

Wedding:

While the film revolves around Carrie and Big’s wedding, Mr. King was insistent that no mother or father of the bride be shown. “My idea always was that these women were purely creations of New York,” he said. “The prototype of the series is that these are four grown-ups who make a family of one another.”

Also driving Mr. King’s decision was his fear of falling into cliché. “Who was going to play Carrie’s mother? Connie Stevens? It’s such a traditional sitcom limb. It’s the Thanksgiving episode, and there are Wilford Brimley and Elaine Stritch. I never wanted to do anything like that.”

Mr. King: Please rest assured that if you killed off one or, better yet, more than one of the Sex And The City characters, many peoples' Diet Cokes would taste even sweeter and they would no longer feel their $10 was totally wasted.

[Times]

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