Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown” is taken to the small screen as a 10-part series, with writer Taika Waititi acting as showrunner and executive producer, who will direct the pilot episode for Hulu.
“Silicon Valley” and “Crazy Rich Asians” actor Jimmy O. Yang is ready to act.
Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, “Interior Chinatown” tells the story of Willis Wu (Yang), an extra in a procedural police show called “Black and White”, who rises through the ranks to become a leading man. dreams of rising through. When he sees a crime, Willis begins to delve deeper into a criminal trap in Chinatown, uncovering secrets from the world and his family’s history in the process.
The 20th televised Hulu drama will also be executive produced by Dan Lin, Lindsay Liberator and Elsie Choi for Rideback; Jeff Skoll and Miura Kite for Participant; And Garrett Bash for the dive.
Yang got his break in 2014 playing Jian Yang on HBO’s “Silicon Valley” and has appeared in series such as “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Space Force”. His recent credits include “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” Joe Coe’s “Easter Sunday,” and “Me Time” with Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg. Sally Field, with Jane Fonda and Rita Moreno appearing for “The Silk Road Rally,” “Eighty for Brady” and the animated feature “The Monkey King” for Yang.
Academy Award winner Waititi serves as the writer and executive producer of Hulu’s “Reservation Dogs” and “What We Do in the Shadows.” The “Jojo Rabbit” and “Thor: Love and Thunder” writer-director has several projects in hand, including an untitled “Star Wars” movie and soccer drama “Next Goal Wins.”
Yang is reiterated by Artists First, CAA and SRDA. Waititi has been replicated by CAA, Manage-ment, ID and Yarn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzmann, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, and Gelman.
