Legends come alive in the first look at American Born Chinese
The Disney Plus series is an adaptation of Gene Luen Yang's award-winning graphic novel
Aux News American Born Chinese
While Marvel, Star Wars, and The Little Mermaid might have been the main takeaways from this year’s D23 Expo, Disney still has plenty of other projects in the pipeline. The studio also shared a first look at American Born Chinese, a miniseries adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s acclaimed graphic novel of the same name.
The featurette goes behind the scenes of the upcoming Disney+ show, which follows Jin Yang (Ben Wang), a Chinese-American teenager whose efforts to fit in at his predominantly white school get derailed when a new student arrives from Taiwan. Soon, he finds the mythological world of the Monkey King (Daniel Wu) bleeding into his own.
“The show wants to be what we are, which is our own version of American,” says showrunner and executive producer Kelvin Yu, a veteran Bob’s Burgers writer who was recently seen on The Afterparty.
The preview shows magical martial arts action being dropped into a high school hallway, and the behind the scenes footage highlights the detailed costuming, makeup, and set design.
“We’ve put together this pretty crazy dream team of creatives both behind and in front of the camera,” says executive producer Destin Daniel Cretton. The Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings director is currently under an overall deal with Marvel Studios and Onyx Collective, also owned by Disney; he was recently announced to be working on Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and the Wonder Man series.
The call sheet for American Born Chinese notably reunites Everything Everywhere All At Once stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu; Quan had a particularly big weekend, as he was also announced as a new Loki cast member and ran into his Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom co-star Harrison Ford during D23. The series also features Poppy Liu, Yann Yann Yeo, Chin Han, and Sydney Taylor.
Yang serves as an executive producer on the series. Besides his work in independent graphic novels, he has also been a writer for Marvel and DC, as well as the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics.
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Jobu obviously still meddling with the multiverse, aren’t they?If you haven’t seen Everything Everywhere All at Once yet, you should get on that.Also, probably a question more for the UK and especially Australia, anyone else here used to watch the TV show Monkey religiously?
I’m not sure we got it in the US when I was a kid but after reading about it on the internet I tracked down a copy of the series because it’s insane and the theme song slaps
Oh yes, it was a mainstay of British telly viewing in the nineties. Shite dubbing, but hilariously crap to watch.FORGOT TO ADD POSSIBLY THE MOST EPIC OLYMPICS OPENING…That was how influential Monkey is. The animation is taken from Damon Albarn’s rather exquisite Chinese-language opera Monkey: Journey To The West (yes, that Damon Albarn).
There’s no such thing as an American born Chinese person. You can be American born Asian, but you cannot claim to be American born Chinese. Because you see, Chinese is a nationality, not a race. You also can’t be “half Chinese,” “a quarter Chinese,” or any other fraction of Chinese. These are facts.If you hold Chinese citizenship, you are Chinese. If you don’t, you are not. Prove me wrong. You can’t do it.
Ah yes Asia, that small continent with zero ethnic diversity at all.
Asian is an ethnicity. The only ethnicity found in Asia. Prove me wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Asia
Fuck off. Would you say the same of Italian-Americans or Irish Americans? I guess it doesn’t matter, because either way you’re an idiot.
Yes I would, and no I’m not.
If you’re not a paid Chinese Communist Party troll, you sure sound like one. Because that’s exactly the narrative they’re trying to peddle in their propaganda.Signed, a Malaysian national of Chinese ethnicity who will never move to Beijing because where the hell am I gonna find good bak kut teh there?
Chinese is not an ethnicity. Prove me wrong.
Buddy, my very existence proves you wrong.Then again, your assertion is so asinine that you’re probably just doing a bit. A very unfunny bit at that.
Here you go, dumbass. From Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the definition of “ethnicity” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethnicity) is “ethnic quality or affiliation.” When we look up “ethnic” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethnic), we find it defined as “of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.” You see that word “national” in there? That means Chinese, which can be a nationality (among other things), can also be an ethnicity. And *that* means I’ve proven you wrong. You’re welcome. Now shut the fuck up until you learn how to use words intelligently, which would require you to crack a dictionary now and then, which I hope you do … but given your behavior today, I wouldn’t bet on it.
Chinese can be a nationality or an ethnicity. (ethnicity includes culture) None of the above are dependent on biological factors. However, race is a biological factor (Asian, black, white…etc) while ethnicity talks about culture, traditions..etc etc (I.e speaking Chinese language, following Chinese holidays, traditions, the culture you grew up in with family or society…etc etc)Nationality talks about passport and legal documents. For example the Uyghur people in China, their nationality is Chinese but their ethnicity is Uyghur. There are 56 ethnicities in China. A Han Chinese girl born in China, in that case she is both ethnically Chinese and her nationality is also Chinese. Or for example if a girl is born in America, but her parents are from China and raised her in Chinese culture despite being in America and she herself identifies as Chinese, it means her nationality is American but her ethnicity is Chinese. And she thinks her ethnicity defines her more than her nationality. A person can choose to identify him or herself as her/his nationality or ethnicity or both and it (nationality and ethnicity) may or may not be different. But hey, why don’t you contact Gene Luen Yang, the author of American Born Chinese, and tell him how wrong he’s been his whole life and since the book was released in 2006. Only he can prove you wrong or acknowledge how right you are, and go on a campaign to correct such an egregious error.
Chinaman-Australian here. Fuck off you fucking weeb.
I’m actually a little surprised Disney has never tried to make an animated Monkey King movie yet. They’ve done basically every other fairytale around the world.
You know, they could lift most of A Korean Odyssey (the K drama extremely loose modernisation of Journey to the West) and it wouldn’t be out of place in the Disney landscape.