Henry Golding revealed that he had reconnected with several of his collaborators “Crazy Rich Asians” while the successful film, based on the trilogy of author Kevin Kwan, obtains a future on the small screen.
Golding, which played the role of Easy Heartthrob Nick Young in the 2018 film, told the “Today” Show Wednesday that he recently found the Awkwafina and Gemma Chan co-stars on separate occasions, and discussed the series currently in development at Max. “Everyone is excited,” he said.
The actor “Snake Eyes” and “Another Simple Favor” said that he had met Awkwafina “the other evening” and “not too long ago” reconnected with Chan and the co-series “Crazy Rich Asians” Adele Lim in London “to discuss where we are heading”.
“Crazy Rich Asians”, directed by Jon M. Chu and co-written by Lim and Peter Chiarelli, praised an entirely Asian distribution and was a Moment of the watershed For under-represented voices in Hollywood. The film has produced nearly $ 240 million worldwide with a budget of $ 30 million and paved the way for a follow -up of Kwan's second book, “China Rich Girlfriend”.
In 2019, the news announced that the rest of “Crazy Rich Asians” struck an important obstacle while Lim was leaving the project Wage disparity. The status of the second film has not been clear since then, but it seems that Lim will give “rich Asians” another blow. Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of Max and Warner Bros. Pictures, which distributed the first film.
Lim is ready to produce, write and serve as a showrunner on the Warner Bros. television project. Kwan and CHU (via its electricity production banner) will both return as executive producers. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson by Color Force will also be executive products. We don't know exactly where the series will resume, but it will be based on Kwan's books.
The series is at the start of development without any casting case, but Lim is due to the fact that the original actors come back for the show, Times learned. In his interview “Today”, Golding did not confirm if he was officially on board, but said “we have so much track to really share the world” of the franchise “Crazy Rich Asians”.
“I think we are really delighted to show more,” he said.
