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Jonathan Murray Chu (born November 2, 1979) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for directing the romantic comedy "Crazy Rich Asians" (2018) and the musical fantasy "Wicked" (2024), the former being one of the first films by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent. For his direction for "Wicked," Chu won the National Board of Review Award for Best Director and Critics’ Choice Award for Best Director. An alumnus of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, other films he has directed often include musical elements, including the dance films "Step Up 2: The Streets" (2008) and "Step Up 3D" (2010), the musicals "Jem and the Holograms" (2015) and "In the Heights" (2021), as well as the live concert films "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" (2011) and "Justin Bieber's Believe" (2013). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon M. Chu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jon M. Chu
Director
for Director in Jon M. Chu's Masters Of The Universe (2013)
Suggested by smurphys_law
After Warner Bros gave up the rights to make a MOTU movie, Sony and Columbia Pictures stepped up to acquire the rights and start from scratch with a new script with Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch producing the film under their production company Escape Artist Productions, the writing duo of Mike Finch and Alex Litvak pitched a treatment to Mattel and Sony which won them over and they were hired to write the script, but not too long after Sony hired Richard Wenk to rewrite it and Jon M. Chu was hired to direct, fresh off of G.I. Joe: Retaliation Chu was offered to read the script which although skeptical initially he ended up loving the script and accepted the offer and the movie was scheduled to release on March 29th 2013, however almost a year after he joined on Chu's initial enthusiasm for the project faded away and left the project and moved on the other things, however what if Jon M. Chu stood on the project and the movie went ahead? this is who i feel could've been casted in the roles
