A sequel may be in the works for the film, The Joy Luck Club, 25 years after the original made its debut.
The film’s producer, Ronald Bass, told Entertainment Tonight that a script is being circulated around Hollywood for both a film project and a TV series.
“Both the series or sequel, if they happen, will be the same cast 25 years later,” Bass said. “In other words, the mothers are now grandmothers. The daughters are now mothers and they each have a millennial daughter of their own. So, now it would be a three generation – what’s that like in mother-daughter relations? Today’s world versus first, second generations and immigrants.”
Bass made the announcement during a 25th anniversary celebration of the film held earlier this week at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills.
It also comes just days after the debut of Crazy Rich Asians and the excitement that film has generated.
“We’ve crossed into that area where we can finally say to Hollywood in general we don’t have to be just a genre of ethnic movies. We can be anything,” said writer/producer Amy Tan to KABC.
25 years later, the Joy Luck Club still resonates with fans.
“We’re all struggling with the same issues. We all want to connect, we all want to belong, we’re all dealing with family members and trying to find our place in the world,” said Lauren Tom who starred in the original.
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RE: Sequel to Joy Luck Club Written: We just watched Joy Luck Club as a family last night, and I was thinking how it really was a story that wouldn’t resonate as much with a younger generation– ABCs in their 20s were likely born to parents who’d come of age in China during all the economic reforms.
It will be interesting to see if this new story comes to fruition, and if it still hates on Asian males.