After years of start and stop and developmentWe can finally get a return to the world of ”Crazy rich Asians. ”
A new series is under development from Warner Bros. Television for Max It will be based on Kevin Kwan’s book series and will get back the 2018 film author Adele glue to serve as a series showrunner, as well as director Job men to executive products.
The series will be an hour’s drama and is only under development at this stage, so it is unclear if it comes from the original movie, which played Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan, will return.
Lim, who was co -author of “Crazy Rich Asians”, is now an EP, writer and showrunner via its production company 100 Tigers, while CHU is an EP via Electric somewhere. Kwan, the author of the three books in the series “Asians”, will also produce. Other EPs include Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson via their Color Force Banner, who was behind the development of the original film, and Naia Cucukov via Lim’s 100 Tigers. SK Global Entertainment will also produce, with Chloe Dan who monitors the project for the company.
Chu and Lim have tried to bring a sequel to the screen for a while to collect $ 239 million around the world for Warner Bros in 2018.
The work runs as late as 2022 at the sequel, with a new author Amy Wang was dropped to adapt the series after LIM left the project in 2019 over a dispute over wage difference Together with co -author Peter Chialli. Warner Bros. was also under development on one “Crazy Rich Asians” Spinoff -Movie Back in 2022 it would have followed the romance of Gemma Chan and Harry Shum Jr.’s characters.
Chu, who is currently riding high with “wicked” and ending work with “wicked: for good” which arrived later this year, processed previous controversy around the movie that he just threw South Asian actors in stereotypical roles As a servant or less background signs, he says he learned a lesson and needed to “pay more attention to it” for future installations of the series.
Lim was the latest writer and producer at Lionsgate -comedy “Joy Ride” from 2023.
Glue is represented by Paradigm and Ginsburg, Daniels, Kallis. Chu is first represented artists; Uta; Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher (GGSSC); and id pr. Kwan is represented by Caa and lawyer Peter Nichols in Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark, Inc. Cucukov is reppled by paradigm and Sean Marks.
