Why Jon M. Chu SaysCrazy Rich AsiansTV Show Was a Good Alternative as Movie Sequel Remains Up in the Air

Mar. 15, 2025

From left: Jon M. Chu, Constance Wu in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and Henry Golding in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’.Photo:Mike Coppola/Getty; Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros.(2)

Mike Coppola/Getty; Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros.(2)

Jon M. Chuis ready to expand theCrazy Rich Asiansuniverse.

However, Chu stopped short of ruling out a sequel toCrazy Rich Asiansin the future, explaining, “I don’t know if it’s in lieu of a sequel but it felt clear that every character we wanted to explore needed more room and just a movie wasn’t doing it for us.”

Max confirmed on Feb. 28 that Chu would return to executive produce the new series with the film’s co-writer Adele Lim, who will serve as the showrunner. He shared, “We got to bring Adele back into the fold and so we’re starting this now, it’s going to be fun.”

Lim, who co-wrote the movie with Peter Chiarelli,left the sequelafter alleged issues of pay disparity in September 2019. At the time,The Hollywood Reporterreported Chiarelli was offered a significantly higher amount than Lim.

Jon M. Chu working on ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ with Michelle Yeoh (left) and Henry Golding (center).Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros.

Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros.

Crazy Rich Asianschronicled the love between Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) and Nick Young (Henry Golding). Rachel finds herself thrust into a world of pomp and elitism after accompanying her boyfriend to a friend’s wedding in Singapore, where she learns about his family’s true wealth and his status as a sought-after bachelor.

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Constance Wu and Henry Golding in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’.Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros.

In November, Chu toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat he was willing to make aCrazy Rich Asians 2if the stars properly align.

“I always promised the cast, I will not bring them back unless we get a script that’s better and has as much urgency as the first movie,” he told the publication, adding that at the moment, “we just haven’t gotten there yet.”

“The first movie, even though people think, ‘It’s like the book, so the second book should fit in,’ it’s actually not. There’s a lot of shifting, architecturally, and so it’s not a straight translation. And then there are characters that you want to see in a movie that are part of the book. We’ve done some versions and it’s never quite hit.”

Ultimately, Chu highlighted that “the bar is high for all of us to come back to do that, so I’m not going to put the audience through that until we’re ready to do it.”

source: people.com