Following the major success of her 2019 film The Farewell, filmmaker Lulu Wang is set to return with a new limited series, Expats, later this year.
The drama series is an adaptation of the 2016 novel The Expatriates written by Janice Y.
K.
Lee.
The Hong Kong-set project has been in development since 2018 when Amazon Studios greenlit an adaptation of the series after partnering with the production company Blossom Films.
Notably, the company is led by Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge), who would go on to executive produce and star in the series.
By the end of 2019, Wang was brought onto the project to write, direct, and serve as an executive producer for the series.
Wang also signed a television deal with Amazon in January 2022 under her new production company Local Time.
Yet, it hasn’t been an easy path for the series since it has been affected by various controversies.
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