{"id":927022,"date":"2026-10-09T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927022\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:06:10","slug":"havana-rose-liu-to-star-in-hiro-murai-fx-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927022\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana Rose Liu To Star In Hiro Murai FX Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s an interesting order: FX<\/a> has set Havana Rose Liu<\/a> to star in a crime drama pilot from Widow\u2019s Bay Emmy winner Hiro Murai<\/a> and famed Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai<\/a> that shoots in Bangkok later this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeveloped from an original story by Wong, the pilot revolves around a petty criminal who inherits a share in a mysterious and powerful corporation. She then vaults into a world of unimaginable wealth but also constant danger from a ruthless elite who sees her as the ultimate threat. It comes from FX Productions and Searchlight Television<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMurai will direct from a script by Charles Yu (Interior Chinatown) and Julia Cho (Turning Red, Elio). Yu, Cho and Murai exec produce alongside Carver Karaszewski, Claudia Shin, Kate Dean, Paul Schwartzman and Wong.<\/p>\n

\n\tLiu has recently scored roles in numerous projects from top directors, including Nicolas Winding Ref (Her Private Hell), Daniel Roher (Tuner), and John Carney (Power Ballad). She broke out in Emma Seligman\u2019s Bottoms, opposite Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri. Upcoming, she has Jesse Eisenberg\u2019s The Debut, which releases December 11 after premiering at Telluride; Jenny Suen\u2019s Peaches, opposite Sophie Thatcher, for Coco Francini and Cate Blanchett\u2019s Dirty Films; and Arkasha Stevenson\u2019s untitled bachelor party horror film for A24. She is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, Brillstein Partners, and Schreck Rose Dapello.<\/p>\n

\n\tThree weeks ago, Murai made history<\/a> by becoming the first Asian director to win the Comedy Directing Emmy for his work on Widow\u2019s Bay, the hit horror comedy series for Apple, which he also exec produces. The Emmy was his third; the show itself scored 14, the most ever won by a comedy series in one year. A longtime fixture at FX, he\u2019s more recently been directing and executive producing their drama miniseries The Marriage Plot from Will Arbery, based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. He is repped by UTA, Untitled, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.<\/p>\n

\n\tWong Kar Wai is the auteur behind such iconic films as Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love. His most recent major projects are the Chinese drama series Blossoms Shanghai and the Oscar-nominated 2013 film The Grandmaster. He\u2019s repped by CAA, Film Agents, Gang Tyre Ramer, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.<\/p>\n

\n\tYu is repped by UTA, Theresa Kang of Blue Marble Management, and Robby Koch and Ken Richman of Hansen Jacobson; Cho by WME and Robby Koch at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s an interesting order: FX has set Havana Rose Liu to star in a crime drama pilot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,2112,208181,318459,318460,318461],"class_list":["post-927022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-fx","tag-havana-rose-liu","tag-hiro-murai","tag-searchlight-television","tag-wong-kar-wai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927022","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=927022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}