{"id":236198,"date":"2025-10-24T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236198\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:38:08","slug":"jon-m-chu-swears-crazy-rich-asians-sequel-tv-show-is-actually-getting-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236198\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon M. Chu swears Crazy Rich Asians sequel TV show is actually getting made"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s only gotten weirder, over the last few years, that Jon M. Chu has never been able to get any traction on a sequel to his 2018 blockbuster hit Crazy Rich Asians<\/a>. After all, Chu\u2019s no longer just \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u00a0director Jon M. Chu\u201d: He\u2019s become something of a full-blown cottage industry, propelled most of all by the success of last year\u2019s Wicked<\/a>, and the expected performance of its sequel next month. This guy is the stud from which Warner Bros. is hanging pretty much all of its holiday hopes, which only makes the multiple fizzled attempts to build on his first big hit feel all the more incongruous.<\/p>\n

But, no more: Chu swears that the previously announced Crazy Rich Asians\u00a0sequel show<\/a> is the real deal, with scripts written, and production ready to go\u2014just as soon as he gets a green light. (God only knows when that\u2019ll be, since he\u2019s also still on the hook to do a lot of other stuff, including directing a Hot Wheels\u00a0move for J.J. Abrams for some unfathomable reason<\/a>.) Chu was making these promises during a recent conversation with Esquire<\/a>, where he swears up and down that there will actually be more\u00a0Crazy Rich Asians\u00a0at some point. \u201cIt\u2019s a real thing. We have scripts, and we\u2019re waiting to be officially ready to go. Our cast will be there.\u201d (Chu does not then specify \u201cour cast,\u201d which feels like it could be a major sticking point for translating the film\u2019s universe into TV.)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chu also talked a bit about the difficulties in adapting Kevin Kwan\u2019s follow-up novel to Crazy Rich Asians,\u00a0China Rich Girlfriend, for the screen: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to do the continuation of the books,\u201d he told Esquire. \u201cBecause our characters changed so much in the first movie. It\u2019s so different [from] the books, actually, even though it feels like it\u2019s the same. So you couldn\u2019t go one-to-one. But we can use a lot of inspiration from the book to dig out more story from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

News of the TV continuation began circulating back in February<\/a>, i.e., right after Chu handed Warner Bros. his latest fresh basket of money.<\/p>\n

A Crazy Rich Asians TV series is now in development<\/a>Crazy Rich Asians is the latest film to get the musical treatment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s only gotten weirder, over the last few years, that Jon M. Chu has never been able to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-236198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}