Fresh Off the Boat and Always Be My Maybe star Randall Park is already making moves with his new production company Imminent Collision, landing a first-look TV deal with 20th Century Fox Television, reports Deadline.
Park launched the company with friends Michael Golamco and Hieu Ho in the hopes of sharing “comedy-forward stories from Asian American perspectives for all audiences,” says Variety.
“We’ve had the pleasure for years of watching Randall as an anchor of our beloved series, Fresh Off the Boat. He is as hilarious as he is kind and talented,” stated Carolyn Cassidy, 20th’s president of creative affairs. “He introduced us to his longtime friends and collaborators Michael and Hieu. They blew us away with their taste and passion for creating television shows from their own unique perspective as Asian-American creators, and we knew immediately that we had to be in business with them. They’re smart, driven and brimming with ideas. They share our desire to bring voices to the screen that are underrepresented and in doing so, create series that reflect the drama and humor of the world we live in today.”
Fresh Off the Boat recently kicked off a sixth season with its first episode late September. Park’s role as Marcus in Netflix’s Always Be My Maybe also further launched him into the public eye; he cowrote the movie’s script with Golamco and costar Ali Wong.
Golamco is currently writing a Netflix adaptation of the novel Hello, Universe and cowriting a Warner Bros. adaptation of the manga Akira.
Ho has served as president of production company Chu Studios and recently worked with BuzzFeed to set up projects with film and TV platforms like Warner Bros. and Comedy Central.
“Our immigrant parents came to America with a dream. That dream was for their children to land a first look television producing deal, scripted and unscripted, at a major Hollywood studio,” the trio stated. “We would like to thank Carolyn, Howard, Dana, Craig and the entire 20th team for helping us make our parents proud.”
They named their company after a play they worked on from Lapu the Coyote That Cares, the UCLA Asian American theater company Park cofounded.
Adding to Park’s growing popularity, he recently appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show, in which he shared his love for Korean pop group BTS after tearing up at their concert.
“I was super moved by them,” he said in front of the live audience. “I was not a fan going into that show, my wife was a huge fan. And I get there, the Rose Bowl, 90,000 people packed, all different races, all different ages, singing along to these Korean musicians and dancers.
“It was just really, oh my gosh, as a kid, I could never imagine something like that happening.”
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