Crazy Rich Asians is an upcoming American romantic comedy drama film based on Kevin Kwan's novel of the same name. Produced by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force, it is being directed by Jon M. Chu. It will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and is set for release on August 17, 2018. The film stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Ronny Chieng, and Michelle Yeoh.
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Premise
Based on the novel by Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians centers on American-born Chinese economics professor Rachel Chu, who accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to become thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous. She discovers that her boyfriend comes from a very wealthy family with a dark past, and that every woman wants him.
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Cast
Main characters
- Constance Wu as Rachel Chu, Nick's longtime girlfriend and Kerry's daughter
- Henry Golding as Nick Young, Rachel's longtime boyfriend and Phillip and Eleanor's son
Nick's family
- Gemma Chan as Astrid Leong-Teo, Nick's cousin, Charlie's ex-fiancé and Michael's wife
- Lisa Lu as Shang Su Yi, Nick's grandmother and the matriarch of the family
- Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Sung-Young, Nick's domineering mother and Phillip's wife.
- Ronny Chieng as Eddie Cheng, Nick's cousin and Fiona's husband
- Victoria Loke as Fiona Tung-Cheng, Eddie's wife from Hong Kong and Nick's cousin-in-law
- Remy Hii as Alistair Cheng, Eddie's brother and Nick and Astrid's cousin from Hong Kong
- Nico Santos as Oliver T'sien, Nick's second cousin
- Selena Tan as Alexandra 'Alix' Young, Su Yi's youngest child
- Janice Koh as Felicity Young, Astrid's mother and Su Yi's eldest child
Rachel's family and friends
- Tan Kheng Hua as Kerry Chu, Rachel's mother
- Awkwafina as Goh Peik Lin, Rachel's Singaporean college best friend and Wye Mun's daughter
- Ken Jeong as Goh Wye Mun, Peik Lin's wealthy father
- Koh Chieng Mun as Peik Lin's mother
Nick's friends
- Chris Pang as Colin Khoo, Nick's childhood best friend and Araminta's fiancé.
- Sonoya Mizuno as Araminta Lee, Colin's fiancée
- Jimmy O. Yang as Bernard Tai, Carol's son and Nick and Colin's former classmate
- Jing Lusi as Amanda "Mandy" Ling, New York socialite and Nick's former girlfriend
Other characters
- Harry Shum Jr. as Charlie Wu, Astrid's ex-fiancé
- Pierre Png as Michael Teo, Astrid's husband
- Fiona Xie as Kitty Pong, Alistair's girlfriend and Hong Kong "soap opera" star
- Amy Cheng as Jacqueline Ling, Mandy's heiress mother
- Carmen Soo as an undisclosed role
- Kris Aquino as an undisclosed role
- Xiaxue as an undisclosed role
Production
Kevin Kwan published his comedic novel Crazy Rich Asians on June 11, 2013. In August 2014, producer Nina Jacobson acquired rights to adapt the novel into a film. Jacobson and her partner Brad Simpson intended to produce under their production banner Color Force with Bryan Unkeless developing the project. Their goal was to produce the film adaptation outside the studio system and to structure financing for development and production from Asia and other territories outside the United States. In 2014, the US-based Asian film investment group Ivanhoe Pictures partnered with Jacobson to finance and produce Crazy Rich Asians.
Director Jon M. Chu entered negotiations with Color Force and Ivanhoe Pictures in May 2016 to direct the film adaptation. He was hired as director after giving executives a visual presentation about his experience as a first-generation Asian-American. Screenwriters Adele Lim and Pete Chiarelli wrote the screenplay. In the following October, Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the project after what Variety called a "heated" bidding war.
The film will star Constance Wu as the lead Rachel Chu, and Michelle Yeoh will star as Eleanor Young, while newcomer Henry Golding is set to play the male lead Nick Young. Rounding out the supporting cast will be Gemma Chan as Nick's cousin Astrid Leong and Sonoya Mizuno as Araminta Lee. Production is set to begin in April 2017 in Singapore and Malaysia. In April 18, 2017 Filipina Actress Kris Aquino was cast in a cameo role.
The film started shooting on location in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in April 2017. The Pinang Peranakan Mansion can be seen in the trailer.
On May 12, 2017, it was announced that Ken Jeong had joined the cast.
Release
Crazy Rich Asians is set to release in theaters August 17, 2018.
Casting controversy
The movie's casting has been met with both praise and scrutiny, particularly over the casting of biracial actor Henry Golding, who is of English and Malayo-Austronesian of Iban descent, as the Chinese-Singaporean Nick Young. Korean-American actress Jamie Chung, who had auditioned for a role but was turned down for allegedly not being "ethnically Chinese", called Golding's casting "bullshit". Chung's remarks were heavily criticized, with many accusing her of being bigoted or racist against Eurasians. Others felt her comments about ethnic casting were hypocritical, as she had previously played Mulan, an ethnic Chinese character, in the television series Once Upon a Time. In response to the backlash, Chung walked away from her comments and apologized to Golding.
Several Asian-based reporters were apprehensive of Golding's casting, with South China Morning Post's Edmund Lee commenting,
Similarly, John Lui of The Straits Times mentioned, while bringing up Golding's costar Sonoya Mizuno, another Eurasian actor of Japanese, British, and Argentinian descent:
Golding himself weighed in on the controversy, calling it "quite hurtful," explaining:
Golding's costar Awkwafina also defended the casting, stating:
Sociologist and author Nancy Wang Yuen has said that criticisms of the movie's casting point to deeper issues of racial purity, especially in the South-east and East Asian community. By deeming Golding "not Asian enough", the detractors were choosing to ignore his Asian heritage. Yuen contrasted Golding's situation to the public perception of former U.S. President Barack Obama, who, like Golding, is also biracial. She noted that "the world sees President Obama as black, but his mother is white...[it's] contradictory to erase Golding's Asian ancestry while obliterating Obama's white ancestry."
References
External links
- Crazy Rich Asians on IMDb
Source of article : Wikipedia
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