By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Action comedy present “American Born Chinese” has been handed a straight-to-series order by streaming service Disney Plus.
Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton, who lately delivered a field workplace hit with Marvel Studios’ “Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”, will direct the sequence.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kelvin Yu will function showrunner for the motion comedy which relies on a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang.
“American Born Chinese” follows the story of Jin Wang, a mean teenager juggling his highschool social life along with his immigrant house life.
When he meets a brand new overseas scholar on the primary day of the varsity yr, much more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.
The present will discover problems with id, tradition and household.
Melvin Mar, Jake Kasdan, Asher Goldstein, and Yang will govt produce the sequence, which is backed by Disney’s twentieth TV.
“We are delighted to proceed our relationship with Melvin Mar and Jake Kasdan and thrilled that Destin Daniel Cretton is ready to direct.
The staff are visionaries in bringing character-driven adventures to life, and we can’t anticipate our viewers to expertise this fantastically memorable and imaginative adaptation of the graphic novel,” mentioned Ayo Davis, president of Disney Branded Television.
“This is a great universal story that moves between worlds and explores the impact of culture, identity, and acceptance through the lens of adolescence,” she added.
Cretton, whose directorial credit additionally embrace indie hits like “Short Term 12” and “Just Mercy”, mentioned he discovered the adaption’s script “riveting” and it left him “laughing and crying and jumping out of my chair on every page”.
“I really feel deeply linked to the characters on this story and the good staff bringing it to life.
This present goes to be not like something we have skilled on TV, and I can not anticipate the world to see what we’re cooking up,” he added.