Adele Lim, who co-wrote the “Crazy Rich Asians” screenplay, has exited the planned sequels due to a dispute over pay disparity.A representative for Lim confirmed her departure from the Warner Bros.
projects.
The rep declined to comment further.
Warner Bros.
did not respond to a request for comment.“Crazy Rich Asians,” based on the 2013 novel by Kevin Kwan, follows a young Asian American woman who meets her boyfriend’s parents — and discovers they’re one of the richest families in Singapore.
Constance Wu played the lead with Henry Golding as her fiancé and Michelle Yeoh as her future mother-in-law.John M.
Chu directed from the script co-written by Lim and Peter Chiarelli.
The romantic comedy was a surprise hit with $238 million in worldwide box office.Warner Bros.
had announced shortly after the film opened that it would develop the next two books in Kwan’s trilogy — 2015’s “China Rich Girlfriend
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