Crazy Rich Asians
16 hrs. 3 min.
Description
“Nowhere in the world will you find such rich people as the Chinese,” wrote the medieval Arab traveler Ibn Battuta—this line served as the epigraph for Kevin Kwan’s international bestseller.
So meet Rachel Chu. She’s an American of Chinese descent, a young professor of economics at New York University, and a specialist in game theory. One day her boyfriend Nick—also a university lecturer, hailing from Singapore—asks her to spend the summer in Asia to accompany him on a trip to the wedding of his best friend Colin. Rachel knows almost nothing about his family (and his family knows almost nothing about Rachel), and only during the trip does she discover that they are insanely rich—and that Nick is one of the most enviously eligible Asian bachelors…
The film rights were acquired by Nina Jacobson—producer of “The Hunger Games”—and the movie “Crazy Rich Asians” (directed by Jon Chu, starring Constance Wu and Henry Golding) became one of the box-office leaders in 2018.
So meet Rachel Chu. She’s an American of Chinese descent, a young professor of economics at New York University, and a specialist in game theory. One day her boyfriend Nick—also a university lecturer, hailing from Singapore—asks her to spend the summer in Asia to accompany him on a trip to the wedding of his best friend Colin. Rachel knows almost nothing about his family (and his family knows almost nothing about Rachel), and only during the trip does she discover that they are insanely rich—and that Nick is one of the most enviously eligible Asian bachelors…
The film rights were acquired by Nina Jacobson—producer of “The Hunger Games”—and the movie “Crazy Rich Asians” (directed by Jon Chu, starring Constance Wu and Henry Golding) became one of the box-office leaders in 2018.
