The Crazy Rich Asians media franchise is a novel and film series created by Singaporean-American author Kevin Kwan. The franchise was established with the publication of the novel Crazy Rich Asians in 2013, which was inspired by Kwan's childhood in Singapore. [1] [2] Crazy Rich Asians was followed by the novels China Rich Girlfriend (2015) and Rich People Problems (2017), [3] as well as the 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians .
The Crazy Rich Asians novels received positive reviews, became both a national and an international bestseller, and has been translated into over 30 languages. [4] [5] In 2013, Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson secured film rights to Crazy Rich Asians. [6] The film was released in the United States on August 15, 2018. Kwan sold the rights to the film for $1 [7] and served as executive producer on the film with near total creative control, one of the conditions to selling the rights. [8] The film was the first major Hollywood film with a majority ethnic Asian cast telling a contemporary Asian-American story since 1993's The Joy Luck Club.[ citation needed ]
Kwan published China Rich Girlfriend in June 2015 and became an international bestseller.[ citation needed ] On August 15, 2018, it was reported that Kwan had already been tasked with developing a film from the sequel China Rich Girlfriend. [9] On April 29, 2019, CNBC reported the back-to-back filming of two sequels to Crazy Rich Asians set for filming in 2020. [10] As of March 2025, the studio owning rights to the sequels, Warner Bros., was still considering scripts for the movie. [11]
The first film of the trilogy opened in 2018 as a popular and profitable success. Elle magazine reported in June 2024 that plans for a Warner Bros production of Crazy Rich Asians 2 are underway, stating that: "Amy Wang, who was the story editor on The Brothers Sun and worked on From Scratch, is writing the sequel script, Deadline reported in 2022." [12] World of Reel announced in April 2024 that filming for CRAZY RICH ASIANS 2 is set to start at the beginning of 2025. [13]