Following the news that Max is developing a "Crazy Rich Asians" TV series, Jon M. Chu — who helmed the 2018 blockbuster before his two Wicked movies — gave a taste of what’s to come on the small screen.
“We needed more real estate, that was the reality,” Chu said. “We developed the movie over and over and over again and we’re still working on a version of something that I won’t talk about now, but the TV landscape allowed us to use all the characters.”
It was announced last week that Chu and Adele Lim, the movie's co-writer, were both on board the series, with the latter as showrunner.
Lim previously departed the planned sequel in 2019, revealing to The Hollywood Reporter at the time that she was being offered a fraction of the salary Warner Bros. was offering co-writer Peter Chiarelli, a white man.
Sequel plans for the movie — which starred Michelle Yeoh, Constance Wu and Henry Golding — have been up in the air for years as a result, and Chu still isn’t entirely taking a second film off the table.
“I don’t know if it’s in lieu of a sequel but it felt clear that every character we wanted to explore needed more room and just a movie wasn’t doing it for us,” he added. “We got to bring Adele back into the fold and so we’re starting this now, it’s going to be fun.”
The series will be based on Kevin Kwan’s novels — Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems — following native New Yorker Rachel Chu (played by Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend Nick (Golding) to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore, learning upon arrival that his family is extremely wealthy.
Gemma Chan, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Jimmy O. Yang and Ronny Chieng also appeared in the original movie.
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