How ‘Interior Chinatown’ Creator Tackled the Book’s Show-Within-a-Show Premise
Charles Yu, the author of “Interior Chinatown” and showrunner of its Hulu TV adaptation, admitted he didn’t think his 2020 novel could be adapted to screen when he was first approached with the idea.
“Honestly, I did not really think that it would be adaptable, which is probably something I shouldn’t admit,” Yu told TheWrap. “But [Hulu] was interested … they approached me and acquired the rights of the book and I started to work on the script … It was really a big challenge, because I knew … what works well in the book won’t necessarily work in a TV show — It’s a completely different medium.”
As Yu adapted the novel — which centers on Chinatown restaurant worker Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang) who is stuck in the background of police procedural series — into a TV series, “Interior Chinatown” became even more meta. Yu, who has TV writing credits for a...
“Honestly, I did not really think that it would be adaptable, which is probably something I shouldn’t admit,” Yu told TheWrap. “But [Hulu] was interested … they approached me and acquired the rights of the book and I started to work on the script … It was really a big challenge, because I knew … what works well in the book won’t necessarily work in a TV show — It’s a completely different medium.”
As Yu adapted the novel — which centers on Chinatown restaurant worker Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang) who is stuck in the background of police procedural series — into a TV series, “Interior Chinatown” became even more meta. Yu, who has TV writing credits for a...
- 21/11/2024
- par Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
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