0:00 Crazy Rich Asians is coming back but now as a TV show. With the same cast? >> Yeah. Come on. >> Why Why am I clapping for that? I didn't like that movie. >> Production begins 2027. >> you like that movie? >> I thought the editing was terrible in that movie. >> The editing? Oh. Okay, sorry. >> No, really. Truly. >> I'm just kidding. >> I don't even remember the editing. Do you watch it AND GO, "WHY DID THEY DO THAT L CUT THERE?" >> [laughter] >> IS THE CASTING DIRECTOR. Let's go. >> Is it because you want to be in there? >> Yeah. >> Because we're not rich though. >> What does it matter? It's just a movie. >> Or we're crazy. We're crazy. >> We're crazy. >> Okay. >> Oh. >> It's just a movie. We got two out of three. >> You want a gangster part like >> We got Constance Wu is coming back. Henry Golding is coming back. Michelle Yeoh is reprising her role as Henry Golding's mom, aka Nick. And then
0:50 [snorts] Ronnie Chieng is back right now. So that's That's the only ones that are confirmed. >> Jimmy O. Yang? He's in it, too? >> Who? >> Jimmy O. Yang. >> He'll get a fun part. >> That's all confirmed right now. >> No Awkwafina? >> It didn't say anything. What it did say though is that we got Adele Lim as a showrunner again. We got Kevin Kwan. Jon M. Chu's back as a production. >> Damn, that's dope. >> So it's It's going to be on HBO. It's going to be a TV series this time. What do you think it's going to be? It's going to follow right after the story, by the way. Right after the actual >> I was about to say I'm like I finally know the story. What are you going to do? Just make it a longer? >> Yeah, it It just continues from the movie, technically. >> It's a prequel but everyone looks older. >> [laughter] >> They always try to do that. Like Ian McKellen in The Hobbit. >> So this will be after they got married now? >> You think he's going to be in like Singapore? >> For sure. >> Well, I mean I don't I think it's going to be worldwide. It's probably going to be
1:40 worldwide. >> That's what the trailer was showing at least. You can see Marina Bay Sands in like the teaser. >> I thought that that was just like old footage. Uh but I'm not sure. I'm not sure. >> If it's Crazy Rich Asians and their lifestyle, it's going to be multiple locations. >> to be a worldwide thing. >> Yeah. They're going to be in like Qatar or something. >> Oh, for sure, dude. Yeah, I'm happy about that. Especially I bet freaking Phil Wang's happy about that. >> Oh, it's got to be. >> Yeah, that's so tight. Especially the whole idea of the Crazy Rich Asians bubble like bursting and stuff. And now it's back for a new a new bubble. >> Bro, what if they hit up JK? >> I think that would be in it. >> I would love to. Can you please not TALK ABOUT IT? >> [laughter] >> YOU'RE RUINING OUR BRAND. >> HEY, HEY, HEY, WE LIKE YOU GUYS, but >> Can you not? Can you associate with us? >> please? >> What streaming service is it going to? >> HBO. >> Okay. >> Oh, ████ >> Yeah, HBO's picked up.
2:30 >> That's legit. >> Legit, legit. >> There might be Shaq. >> going on Shaohong Show. >> It made a bunch of money. Crazy Rich Asians made a bunch of money, so it makes sense. >> But that means it's actually going to be good. >> The editor made a lot of money on that. >> [laughter] >> Shouldn't have, shouldn't have. >> I You know what? I I thought about this when I was I was saying I'm like, Crazy Rich Asians is if it's one of the very few kind of landmark Asian media things that comes out. >> Damn, it's honestly kind of a sick look for Asians. >> Yeah, why not? >> Cuz like a lot of you know, a lot of other cultures they're kind of typical and or classic media or at least what their their strongholds right now are very different. I think Crazy Rich Asians is a good one for us. >> It's a sick look, but like I was saying yesterday in the other video, it's it's so hard to relate to the normal person cuz it's like, oh my struggle, should I
3:20 be a millionaire or billionaire? I don't know. >> I think that's why they have to go crazy rich. They can't just do like like aspiring good Asian. They have to go to the crazy It's like It's like ████ Mormon wives or it's like, you know, it's it's the farthest version of a niche. >> Yes, but still the struggle cuz like everything no matter what the outside label is, a good story needs a good skeleton, right? And the skeleton is still if I if I start my own hospital, I'm going to disgrace my family. You know, it's like, wait, what the ████ >> Well, Crazy Rich Asians is relatable because it's about >> Cinderella, right? It's like a poor girl. >> fish out of water and then meeting your relatives. >> one you're following around isn't the one that's crazy rich, right? >> Yeah, it's like Meet the Parents. It's like >> I thought you're following Constance, whatever. >> Constance wasn't the rich one. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
4:10 >> Nick was the >> Such a classic, you can't forget the story, can't you? >> [laughter] >> I do like that there's that I mean, it works because Bling Empire was sort of the same thing that followed right after. Do you remember that? The reality with with like Asian rich ass people? >> Yeah, I think that's different, at least to me, cuz when it's a reality TV show, you're watching quirks. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> And it doesn't matter if it's like relatable or not. Now you're watching like a circus, you know? >> It is funny though, cuz I didn't I would have never thought that that specific detail would be what people were interested in. Like outside of Asian. >> Like how a balling Asians could be? >> I think it's fascinating. It's like watching like a royal show or like like Bridgerton or whatever. Yeah. >> it's cool to find that they >> Yeah, and you're like, that's how ████ the dynamics are for these families or like >> It's like Beverly Hills shows. All the Beverly Hills shows are like that. You're just following rich rich ass people. >> I do think maybe it's
5:00 the sentiment that Asians are also like it was like us talking about how Steve Wynn was just saying how 54% of the gamblers who come to all the Wynn properties are like from Asia. >> Yeah, right. >> It's like the the the world more so knowing that ████ Asians got money is kind of a thing that I think >> Oh, yeah. >> If there if there was crazy rich Arabs, I think people watch it cuz they know that that's a stereotype. You know, you got these oil families that are like, what's their world like, right? >> No, but could people relate to that cuz it's they're seeing rich ass people doing cool ████ >> not I don't think it's too relate-able as a spectacle. It's not like, oh, that's me. That's all me right there. >> you can have human [laughter] normal family dynamic storylines that are relatable. Like all like people don't people watch Peaky Blinders and then they they don't go, man, I can't relate. It's I'm not from the ████ Victorian era. Like, you know, it's like >> [laughter]
5:50 >> I'M NOT A CRIMINAL. I CAN'T RELATE. >> But the skeleton of it is good, though. It's like family dynamics, right? The label doesn't matter. >> Actually, the label is everything. >> Cuz it's her being trying to be accepted. >> they could they could do like crazy rich Arabs, crazy rich black people. They like the the branding is >> Crazy rich black people? >> Yeah, but I'm just saying. >> [laughter] >> Think about it. The branding is already It's like It's like when So You Think You Can Dance or American Idol hit. When American Idol hit so huge, they went to like Russian Idol, Ukrainian Idol. You know what I'm saying? Like the branding became so clear because it's so basic. >> No, but what makes those hit, though, are the storylines. >> Yeah, but you're saying that story sucks. What I'm saying is everyone sings good, right? On the all the Idols, everyone sings good. So, what makes show what makes this person better than that person is the storyline. >> Yeah, the home story. >> So, I think like to continue this type of like legacy, after the spectacle, if you want to have another one, you can't have the same
6:40 thing. Like, you need to have the story be good. And I think that's the part that I think I have a trouble I have trouble seeing where the story's going to go. >> Unless it's the exact same story, but just a different category of people. >> It comes from a novel. Like, the guy that's behind this Kevin Kevin Kwan, I think. Yeah. >> Oh, yeah. >> He's all story. Like, it's all like it's he's he writes stories nonstop. >> yeah. >> And then And it what makes it different, though, is it's not like your typical like Asian college movie that's like, "Am I going to be a doctor engineer?" [laughter] I think that's not a human feeling, right? It's like, "Should I buy a leather couch or a ████ sofa?" Like, that's it's irrelevant. >> [laughter] >> But I think if if you have a good writer, you can write in human, you know, relationships and dynamics in any ████ story. People do it with non-humans, like Avatar and ████ you know? >> The hurdle is the adaptability part of
7:31 it. So, like the the books, they did good, but we don't know who bought the books. Were they all Asians? To make it to make it in Hollywood, you have to play to a wider audience. So, once you've already saturated the Asian can he write a good enough story where it's more a diverse audience would be like, "Okay, I'm on board." >> Dude, the second that Constance gets a white husband, we're right in the white house. >> there you go. I mean, that's what they always do with sequels, right? You just do the same movie but with a different angle. So, it's like, take away their fortune and then have them build it back, like that kind of ████ >> Yeah. >> That would be more interesting to me, to see someone come up versus they're up and then they're upper. >> I think with like, you know, you had Joy Luck Club, Memoirs of a Geisha. You I mean, any movie that's Asian-based and non-Asians get interested in it, that's really ████ hard to do. >> Crouching Tiger killed it. >> the that's the actual hurdle. >> But then when they're not fighting, when they're when they're not fighting, you know what I mean? I'm I'm naming movies
8:21 where they don't just fight. How are you going to take that away from us? >> No, because like that's already a given, but like, how do you get someone to pay attention to an Asian film that's not a fighting movie? It's >> Well, there's a huge there's a huge appetite for content that's not American anymore. Like people Americans are consuming Korean drama, Japanese >> Right, right, right, right. >> So, they're watching these films not in English cuz when we were coming up like they Americans wouldn't want to read subtitles. That's how bad it was. >> Yeah. >> So, till Passion of the Christ, remember Passion of the Christ? >> Oh my god. >> a billion dollars and it was in Aramaic. >> So much money. >> That's crazy. >> Oh, that's crazy. >> You remember that movie. >> It's crazy. >> But I think what's different is the it's like I don't think the talent is there yet for Asian-American um the circle. But then like in Asia, like they'll have top money, top everything, great storytelling. And then
9:13 so people will watch the anime and all the content that's coming out because it's like, dude, you don't Yeah, you could be any culture, you could watch it and it's a ████ good ass product. >> Yeah. >> I think the title saying Asian is already going to lose half the people. >> No, cuz they already made money. >> But it worked. >> But it's a noticeable brand though. Like Crazy Rich Asians. It's not like something new. >> You can walk through a casino right now and they have Crazy Rich Asian slot machines. Like I am not kidding. >> That's That's >> Exploitative though. >> [laughter] >> Next to the Game of Thrones slot machine. >> That's appropriating. >> So then the people that watched the movie would probably give this a chance that they have a built-in audience. >> Yeah, it's dope. >> A movie like Parasite that I thought was ████ awesome. That's not going to get a slot machine cuz like it's not that it's not the same kind of it doesn't reach the same kind of audience. >> That would be a fun slot machine though. A guy in the ████ basement and >> Do you think it's harder for like
10:04 [laughter] Do you think it's much harder for American studios who are paying American Asian directors and cast to make a movie work versus like an Asian movie that's a hit in Asia and then Americans just end up watching >> distributing? That's what Weinstein did. >> I think that's the biggest struggle that we've been facing. >> Infernal Affairs all the way down to What's it called? >> Well, that you're talking about remakes? Are you talking about just distributing >> No, not remakes. >> Yeah, like you know like how Pokemon or >> Basically like what Wong Fu are always trying to like advocate for. They're like, oh, invest American because it's American. >> Yeah. >> You know what I mean? Versus like oh, this was a huge movie in Korea and now people like it in America but the money goes to Korea. You know what I mean? >> And that's a different struggle too. Yeah. >> I think that's way ████ harder. So if every time it happens here, it's like mega huge to me. >> Yeah, that's the struggle I think that we're trying to deal with. So for me, whether or not I like any Asian American
10:54 project, I just go support cuz I think it's it's dope or whatever. But I think that is the like million or trillion dollar question. Like how do we make it adaptable where you and it's not one trick pony over and over you can crush it. >> This time I think the what they should do is battle between being a doctor or a lawyer instead of engineer. And I think that'll change the game. >> [laughter] >> You know, they in the first episode of Crazy Rich Asians he just goes, "I'm not Asian?" And that's the struggle. >> That's good. He gets a DNA test. >> [laughter] >> 23andMe. >> But he looks Chinese as ████ >> But it's a whole ████ journey to find out if he's Asian. >> He's trying to connect Yeah, connect with his other side. >> [laughter] >> That's so funny. >> No, that's a huge win. >> Remember people got pissed over the
11:44 title having crazy in it cuz it's like, "What is crazy?" And all these like crazy ████ out there were like >> ████ new neck sharkers? >> "What is crazy anyway?" What are you guys saying?
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