Crazy Rich Asians
Warner Bros’Crazy Rich Asiansgets a series of first look photos and anEWcover on the cad of being announced for a summertime 2018 acquittance date . The cinema is an adaptation of Kevin Kwan ’s same - named well - selling novel that debuted in 2013 . The account follows Chinese - American Rachel Chu , played byFresh Off the Boat’sConstance Wu , and her swain Nick Young , portrayed by entrant Henry Golding , as they journey to Singapore for the nuptials of one of Nick ’s friends . Once there , Rachel check that Nick ’s family is one of the wealthy in Malaysia and that comes with heap of complication .
Kwan based his novel on his own life mature up in Singapore and the film version has been in growing since 2014 , though Warner Bros. acquired the labor late last year . film onCrazy Rich Asiansbegan earlier this year and now Warner Bros. has set the film ’s handout day of the month for summertime 2018 whileEWhas unveiled a host of images from the flick .
THRreports thatCrazy Rich Asianswill attain theaters August 17 , 2018 . presently , its only competition is puppet criminal offence thriller / comedyThe Happytime Murdersand Rupert Wyatt ’s sci - fi thrillerCaptive body politic . Plus , EWrevealed theirCrazy Rich Asianscover featuring Wu and Golding , as well as a gallery of images that features substitute photos from the cover shoot in addition to stills from the celluloid . Take a look at the cover and photos in the gallery below :
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conduct by Jon M. Chu ( Now You See Me 2 ) from a book by Adele Lim ( Lethal Weapon , Star - Crossed ) and Peter Chiarelli ( The Proposal),Crazy Rich Asianshas brought together a leading cast that include - in addition to Wu and Golding - Michelle Yeoh as Nick ’s female parent Eleanor Sung - Young , Chris Pang as Nick ’s childhood friend Colin Khoo , Sonoya Mizuno as Colin ’s fiancée Araminta Lee , Awkwafina as Rachel ’s Singaporean college friend Goh Peik Lin , and Ken Jeong as Peik Lin ’s Padre Goh Wye Mun .
As manifest by theCrazy Rich Asianscast tilt , the film is put to be a rarefied output that boast an all - Asiatic cast , which seems to be reasonably of an resolution to the numerous instances of whitewashing ( casting white-hot actor in historically non - white theatrical role ) in Hollywood . Yeoh spoke toEWabout the rarity of an all - Asian casting on a photographic film , saying,“It ’s been too farsighted since there ’s been an all - Asian cast of characters . I ’ve been very lucky to have work on one before [ 2005 ’s Memoirs of a Geisha ] , but they ’re too few and far between . "
Certainly Yeoh is n’t the only moviegoer excited aboutCrazy Rich Asiansputting the focus on Asian grapheme , and the motion-picture show will undoubtedly feel like a breath of fresh air in Hollywood considering it focuses on a chronicle that may seem intimate but is rootle in a setting that has n’t been portray too often in film . Of course , whether the film strike a chord with critic and viewers remains to be hear until its summer 2018 sacking date , but for now , sports fan seem forward toCrazy Rich Asiansfinally have their first look at the product .
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Source : EW [ 1,2],THR
