Hollywood picks up Singaporean writer’s debut novel
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Nothing succeeds like success. While this year, three Asian writers published three well-publicised novels on the Asia’s new rich (Tash Aw’s Five Star Billionaire, Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians), one has been picked by Hollywood.
Hollywood has picked up the film rights to “Crazy Rich Asians,” author Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel about three prominent Chinese families preparing for a lavish wedding in Singapore.
Color Force, the production company behind last year’s hit “The Hunger Games,” acquired the rights for an undisclosed amount. The film will be produced outside of the studio system, it said in a statement.
