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After a controversy over the pay discrepancy between Crazy Rich Asians’ original two screenwriters, Warner Bros. and Color Force have decided to go in a different direction for Crazy Rich Asians 2. According to Deadline, writer-director Amy Wang is set to write the sequel, replacing the first film’s writers, Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim. Wang previously wrote for Netflix’s Brothers Sun and her short film Unnatural, for which she won a Cannes Lion award in 2018. She has also directed episodes of Starz’s Blindspotting. In late 2019, Lim left negotiations for the sequel after allegedly finding out she was being paid ten times less than her co-writer, Chiarelli. Crazy Rich Asians…
