Hulu has ordered 10 episodes of Interior Chinatown, a series adapting the National Book Award-winning 2020 Charles Yu novel with the same name. Deadline was the first to report.
Jimmy O. Yang (Crazy Rich Asians, Silicon Valley) will reportedly star as Willis Wu, a background actor in a procedural cop show called Black and White. A synopsis further elaborates on his character and the show: «Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables and dreaming about a whole world beyond Chinatown. When he inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, Willis begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, and in the process discovers what it feels like to be in the spotlight.»
Taika Waititi (Thor: Love and Thunder, Jojo Rabbit) will direct the pilot and executive produce the series.
Interior Chinatown is a 2020 novel that used the narrative structure of the screenplay format to tell the story this series looks to be adapting. In the satirical novel skewering Hollywood typecasting, Wu is pigeonholed as a background character who longs to be «Kung Fu Guy.»
Hulu also recently ordered book-to-television adaptations for Tiny Beautiful Things, The Other Black Girls, and Black Cake. This new series also follows previously well-received adaptations including Nine Perfect Strangers, Normal People, Conversations with Friends, and the Emmy Award-winning limited series Dopesick.
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