Draft:Rich People Problems (film)

Rich People Problems is an upcoming American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jon M. Chu. It is based on the 2017 book of the same name by Kevin Kwan and will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Cast

 * Constance Wu as Rachel Chu
 * Henry Golding as Nicholas "Nick" Young
 * Gemma Chan as Astrid Leong-Teo
 * Awkwafina as Goh Peik Lin
 * Ken Jeong as Goh Wye Mun
 * Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Sung-Young
 * Tan Kheng Hua as Kerry Chu

Development
Time reported on August 15, 2018 that Kwan has been tasked with developing the sequel to Crazy Rich Asians from his follow-up novel China Rich Girlfriend. The planning was still in pre-production as of August 2018, with several of the key actors currently committed to other projects until 2020. Director Jon Chu was also already committed to shoot the film adaptation of In the Heights, which was scheduled for release in June 2021.

Awkwafina was interviewed in January 2019 and indicated that there were still no scripts for the sequel and that production filming had not started. According to Town and Country magazine, the filming and premiere of the film were not scheduled to take place until 2020. According to a SlashFilm journal article, the two sequels, including Rich People Problems, were set to be shot back-to-back in 2020 once the filming commences. Shooting was expected to be delayed until at least the end of 2020. Screenwriter Adele Lim declined to work on the sequels because of an equal-pay inequity dispute during negotiations in fall 2018. Color Force had hired the experienced Peter Chiarelli to write the screenplay for the Crazy Rich Asians adaptation; when Chu joined the original production, he brought Lim on to add authentic details from Singapore and Malaysia. For the sequels, Warner Bros. had initially offered Lim a salary approximately $1/undefined$th of Chiarelli's pay; although they later made an offer closer in parity to Chiarelli's, who had offered to split his fee with Lim, Lim declined.

Casting
On April 29, 2019, CNBC reported that Harry Shum Jr. was to be cast in the role of playing Astrid's previous boyfriend in the sequel to Crazy Rich Asians, stating, "Shum will play Charlie Wu, the former flame of Astrid Young Teo (played by Gemma Chan), cousin of lead character Nick Young, in China Rich Girlfriend, which is currently in pre-production." The sequel film was expected to focus on the relationship between Charlie and Astrid, the search for Rachel's father, and Kitty Pong.

In April 2020, a person on Twitter purported to be actor Alan Baltes posted a notice where the films China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems were casting Asian actors in their 20s to 40s and a Caucasian female from 25 to 35 for lead roles “via Zoom”. It had also charged a $99 submission fee for per audition. Chu and the producer called it a scam and said they do not have a casting director, and have not done an open casting call.