\u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d will officially be back on screen, with some familiar faces joining for the ride. <\/p>\n
HBO announced on Thursday that it had ordered an original drama series of the same name based on author Kevin Kwan\u2019s book series eight years after director Jon M. Chu\u2019s \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d film adaptation marked a watershed moment<\/a> for Asian representation in Hollywood. The series will see stars Constance Wu and Henry Golding reprise their roles as lovebirds Rachel Chu and Nick Young; Ronny Chieng as Nick\u2019s cousin Eddie Cheng and Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh as the hard-to-please Young family matriarch, Eleanor. <\/p>\n Although not exactly the movie sequel some fans were hoping for, the series will pick up after the events of the 2018 film and will be based on Kwan\u2019s books, HBO announced. Adele Lim, who co-wrote Chu\u2019s 2018 film, will serve as showrunner and will executive produce the series alongside Kwan, Chu and \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d movie producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. <\/p>\n HBO announced its series order just days after parent company Warner Bros. Discovery closed its $111-billion deal with Paramount Skydance.<\/a><\/p>\n The official series order comes more than a year after Golding shared that he and some of his \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d collaborators had reunited to discuss the future of the franchise, including a meeting with Lim. The Times confirmed last year that the series was in early development. <\/a><\/p>\n The \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d series could fill the void left by the onetime promise of a \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d sequel. Prospects of a sequel crumbled in 2019 when the Hollywood Reporter broke news that Lim left the sequel over pay disparity<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d will officially be back on screen, with some familiar faces joining for the ride. HBO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[368664,368665,224530,99398,135291,88,21533,368663,222674,1506,368666,368667,188321,38452,562,2394],"class_list":["post-876141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adele-lim","tag-book-series","tag-chu","tag-constance-wu","tag-crazy-rich-asians","tag-entertainment","tag-film-adaptation","tag-hbo-order","tag-henry-golding","tag-hollywood","tag-kwan","tag-lovebird-rachel-chu","tag-nick-young","tag-sequel","tag-series","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}