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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.
A movie adaptation of the Tony Award winning Best Musical. The show has received a very big end of controversy for it's portrayal of Vietnam as a desolate wasteland, with prostitutes, pimps, and street rats. Playing the Americans as heroes, and flawless. The casting has been criticized as well, with Jonathan Pryce, a white person playing The Engineer, a Vietnamese man. Since then every Engineer has been an Asian actor. With this film production, I am adding a character, and would be making song and lyric changes, to make it a more true to the events, and diverse story.
