With its lavish banquets, helicopter escapes and sweeping descriptions of Singapore’s lush coast, Kevin Kwan’s novel “Crazy Rich Asians” practically begs to be turned into a film. But when Mr. Kwan wrote the book, which was published in 2013, he never thought his set pieces would spring to life. The film has carried the weight of being the first Hollywood film with an all-Asian cast and a contemporary story since “The Joy Luck Club” in 1993. And even though the movie has been out for less than a week, Mr. Kwan says it has already increased the appetite for different kinds of stories in Hollywood. It’s great to hear that, because that’s what we believed from the beginning: that this story transcends race.

Source: New York Times August 19, 2018 18:00 UTC