Los Angeles, Oct. 25 -- Director Jon M. Chu has offered an exciting update on the "Crazy Rich Asians", confirming that the project is moving forward, albeit with some creative challenges.
The filmmaker, who directed the 2018 blockbuster adaptation of Kevin Kwan's novel, recently shared an encouraging update on the long-discussed HBO Max series, confirming that it's very much alive and taking shape.
"It's a real thing," he told Esquire. "We have scripts, and we're waiting to be officially ready to go."Chu added, "It's hard to do the continuation of the books, because our characters changed so much in the first movie. It's so different [from] the books, actually, even though it feels like it's the same. So you couldn't go one-to-one. But we...