‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Sequel Sets Amy Wang as New Writer
thewrap.comWang, a Chinese-Australian writer, won a Cannes Lion award in 2018 for her short film “Unnatural” and is currently attached to make her feature film debut as writer-director of an untitled horror film for Paramount.
Her TV credits include as story editor for Netflix’s “Brothers Sun” and director of an upcoming episode of Starz’s “Blindspotting.”Wang will join the team from “Crazy Rich Asians” that includes Jon M.
Chu and original cast members Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh. It is unclear at this point whether Wang’s screenplay will be a direct adaptation of the novel “China Rich Girlfriend,” Kevin Kwan’s sequel to the “Crazy Rich Asians” novel on which the 2018 film is based. “It’s a very complicated process because, visually, sometimes a novel doesn’t make as much sense as it would on the screen in a direct adaptation,” Golding said in a 2020 Digital Spy interview. “So you have to really change it up to make it interesting,”A sequel to “Crazy Rich Asians” was immediately greenlit by Warner Bros.
after the success of the first film, which grossed $174.5 million in North America. As the first American film since “The Joy Luck Club” 25 years prior to feature an Asian cast, writer and director, the film renewed demands in Hollywood for better AAPI representation in films and television.
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