being that Lim had been making her feature debut with the film while Chiarelli had film experience dating back to the 2009 film “The Proposal.

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.īut development plans stalled after a Hollywood Reporter expose revealed that Adele Lim had been paid roughly an eighth of what co-writer Peter Chiarelli had been paid to write “Crazy Rich Asians,” the rationale from Warner Bros. Between its largely positive critical reception and making roughly 238.5 million worldwide off a 30 million budget, Crazy Rich Asians, adapted from the same-named book by Kevin Kwan, went. On its surface, its about the love between Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) and Nick Young (Henry Golding), two very attractive thirty-something NYU. after the success of the first film, which grossed $174.5 million in North America. Crazy Rich Asians is a love story on multiple levels. “So you have to really change it up to make it interesting,”Ī sequel to “Crazy Rich Asians” was immediately greenlit by Warner Bros. “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. Ma10:05am EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Color Force have set up-and-coming Chinese-Australian writer Amy Wang to pen Crazy Rich Asians 2, Deadline can reveal, replacing Peter. Penang’s Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion aka the Blue Mansion features quite prominently, while the coastline of Langkawi and Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur were also key shooting locations. Lena Headey to Make Directorial Debut on Psychological Thriller ‘Violet’ While Singapore is the main setting for most of the Crazy Rich Asians story, much of the filming also took place in neighbouring Malaysia.

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