“Crazy Wealthy Asians” will before long come to Broadway, many years soon after creator Kevin Kwan’s bestseller jumped from site to monitor in a watershed minute for Asian illustration in Hollywood.
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures exposed on Wednesday that director Jon M. Chu will helm a phase musical dependent on Kwan’s “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy. The musical also will be based on Warner Bros.’s 2018 film adaptation of the first novel, which Chu directed.
Playwright Leah Nanako Winkler will generate the reserve, which will aspect songs by Helen Park and lyrics by Amanda Inexperienced and Tat Tong. Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures explained a timeline for a “pre-Broadway” engagement will be introduced at a later date.
Even though the “Crazy Prosperous Asians” musical will be Chu’s Broadway debut, he’s no stranger to bringing well-liked stage productions to the screen. In 2021, Chu directed the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning “In the Heights.” Later on that 12 months, he was unveiled as the director for Common Pictures’ “Wicked.”
Chu’s “Wicked,” starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, will be break up into two chapters, with the first installment to premiere in November and the next in 2025. Final yr, Chu was tapped to direct a movie adaptation of “Joseph and the Awesome Technicolor Dreamcoat” for Amazon Studios, Deadline noted.
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures’ press release explained the new “Crazy Rich Asians” musical as “a enjoyable, participating and hilarious glance at what can materialize when young like collides with previous dollars.”
Chu’s 2018 “Crazy Abundant Asians” starred Constance Wu as an Asian American woman struggling to demonstrate herself to her boyfriend’s (Henry Golding) extravagantly rich and very selective liked kinds in Singapore. When it was launched, “Crazy Abundant Asians” was the to start with American-manufactured movie to tout an all-Asian cast since 1993‘s “The Pleasure Luck Club.” The cast also integrated Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Gemma Chan and Nico Santos.
“Crazy Abundant Asians,” with a screenplay co-published by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, dominated the box business office for weeks next its release.
“I bear in mind increasing up as a child and not seeing a large amount of persons on the major monitor, or even guiding the monitor, that seemed like me,” Chu recalled to The Periods in 2018. “So the simple fact that we get to clearly show romantic qualified prospects in a contemporary movie, exhibiting this expertise of an Asian American going out into the planet and getting Asia, that we’re not just just one blob of Asian people today, usually means so much.”
Information of Chu’s upcoming musical comes amid uncertainty for the “Crazy Prosperous Asians” film franchise. In 2022, Deadline noted that an adaptation of Kwan’s sequel “China Rich Girlfriend” was in the operates, but considering the fact that then its status has remained unclear. A representative for Warner Bros. Shots did not immediately supply a lot more details about the project to The Moments.
