Hulu announced this week that it will drop all 10 episodes of its new mini-series Interior Chinatown November 19th.
The show based on the award-winning novel from Charles Yu will feature Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng and Chloe Bennet as characters on a TV show inside a TV show, reports Collider.
Yu described the program during a summer press tour which began yesterday.
“It took some time to get used to the idea that this isn’t the book,” but he said his solution has been to “stay true to what made you want to tell this story […] and to make a new story that ultimately is surprising for people, whether or not they read the book,” Reactor quoted him as saying.
Hulu released the first look at the series through four photos featuring Yang, Chieng and Bennet.
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Yang stars as Willis Wu who plays a background actor who witnesses a murder that propels him into a new reality.
Chieng stars as Wu’s best friend Fatty Choi, a lover of malt beverages and video games. Bennet takes on the role of Detective Lana Lee, a new character on the TV show Black and White.
Chieng talked about how the show compares to the book.
“The DNA is the same, but if you read the book, there’s no way to adapt it one-for-one. You have to rethink the whole concept,” later adding that “the show ends in a way where there’s multiple seasons possible.”
Taika Waititi serves as executive producer as well as director of the pilot.
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