Hulu Orders ‘Interior Chinatown’ To Series; Jimmy O. Yang Star And Taika Waititi To EP, Direct Pilot - Deadline

Hulu has ordered 10 episodes of Interior Chinatown, a play bid from 20th Television and creator/exec shaper Charles Yu, who wrote the 2020 bestseller of the aforesaid name. Jimmy O. Yang (Crazy Rich Asians) volition star, and Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) volition nonstop aviator and enforcement produce.

Yang volition play Willis Wu, a inheritance histrion successful a procedural bull amusement called Black & White. Relegated to the background, Willis goes done the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables and dreaming astir a full satellite beyond Chinatown. When helium inadvertently becomes a witnesser to a crime, Willis begins to unravel a transgression web successful Chinatown, and successful the process discovers what it feels similar to beryllium successful the spotlight.

Rideback, Participant and Dive are exec producing. Dan Lin, Lindsey Liberatore, and Elsie Choi volition EP for Rideback; Jeff Skoll and Miura Kite volition EP for Participant, and Garrett Basch volition EP for Dive. Waititi is besides an EP. 

Other book-to-television adaptations astatine Hulu see Tiny Beautiful Things, The Other Black Girl and Black Cake.

Yang is repped by Artists First, CAA, and SRDA. Waititi is repped by CAA, Manage-ment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich & Gellman. Yu is represented by UTA, The Book Group and Hansen Jacobson. Rideback is represented by UTA and Myman Greenspan. UTA brokered the bid merchantability to Hulu.