Jon M. Chu has recently spilled the beans about Crazy Rich Asians series.
The Wicked director gives a major update on the HBO Max series, which is an adaptation of Kevin Kwan‘s book.
Elaborating on why he thinks it’s hard to do a continuation of the movie, Jon tells Esquire magazine, “It’s a real thing.”
“We have scripts, and we’re waiting to be officially ready to go,” states the 45-year-old.
Now You See Me 2 director points out that it’s hard to do the continuation of the books.
And the reason is “because our characters changed so much in the first movie,” notes Jon.
In The Heights movie-maker believes that Crazy Rich Asians is “so different from the books, actually, even though it feels like it’s the same”.
Therefore, Jon adds, “You couldn’t go one-to-one. But we can use a lot of inspiration from the book to dig out more story from it.”
Earlier, the Warner Bros. TV series launched a development room, led by executive producer and showrunner Adele Lim, who also wrote the movie with Peter Chiarelli.
Interestingly, Jon and Kevin also serve as executive producers on the show.
A source previously told Deadline that the series “will not replace the long-awaited sequel of the 2018 movie, but will be based on the same book series,”.
Meanwhile, the first original movie earned the Gloden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and even broke several box office records at the time of release.
The movie cast include Henry Golding, Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Jeong and others.