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Jonathan Murray Chu (born November 2, 1979) [3] is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for directing the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and the musical fantasy Wicked (2024), the former being one of the first films by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent. [4]
What would Crazy Rich Asians have been without Constance Wu? The actress revealed why she almost didn’t take the part of Rachel Chu — and what changed her mind — during an interview on ...
Crazy Rich Asians is celebrating a milestone. On Monday, the hit movie based off of the first book in Kevin Kwan's trilogy debuted, welcoming fans into the opulent world of Rachel Chu (Constance ...
Crazy Rich Asians is a 2018 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jon M. Chu, from a screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, based on the 2013 novel of the same title by Kevin Kwan. The film stars Constance Wu , Henry Golding , Gemma Chan , Lisa Lu , Awkwafina , Ken Jeong , and Michelle Yeoh .
Awkwafina was born in Stony Brook, New York, [4] the only child of Wally Lum, a Chinese American, and Tia Lum, a Korean American. [5] Her father worked in the information technology field, [4] and comes from a family of restaurateurs—her great-grandfather immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, and opened the Cantonese restaurant Lum's in Flushing, Queens, [6] one of the neighborhood's ...
Why Jon M. Chu Says “Crazy Rich Asians” TV Show Was a Good Alternative as Movie Sequel Remains Up in the Air "We developed the movie over and over and over again… but the TV landscape ...
Crazy Rich Asians director John M. Chu says "a lot of questions" remain about the potential for a sequel to the hit 2018 romantic comedy.. In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Chu, 45 ...
The first film of the trilogy opened in 2018 as a popular and profitable success. Elle magazine reported in June 2024 that plans for a Warner Bros production of Crazy Rich Asians 2 are underway, stating that: "Amy Wang, who was the story editor on The Brothers Sun and worked on From Scratch, is writing the sequel script, Deadline reported in 2022."