As Chu prepares to turn Spears’ life story into a movie, he’s just released his own memoir, ‘Viewfinder,’ about growing up in the South Bay and is promoting the release of h…
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – APRIL 12: Honoree Britney Spears attends the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 12, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. Palo Alto-reared director Jon M. Chu, whose film adaptation of “Wicked” could be one of the big movie hits of the 2024 holiday season, has landed another high-profile Hollywood gig: developing and directing a feature film about the life of Britney Spears, based on her best-selling memoir, “The Woman in Me.
In a “local boy makes good story,” Hollywood film director Jon M. Chu returns to Chef Chu’s, his family’s restaurant run by his father Lawrence Chu , to promote his new film, “Crazy Rich Asians,” with film stars Henry Golding and Constance Wu, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Los Altos, Calif. . Universal also produced “Wicked,” based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. “Wicked” is due to be released in movie theaters on Nov.
Chu comes to transforming Spears’ life story into a movie after recently publishing his own memoir, “Viewfinder.” In the book, he shares his somewhat unconventional journey from Silicon Valley to Hollywood, where he’s become one of the industry’s most in-demand directors, following his hit 2018 romantic comedy, “Crazy Rich Asians.”. For decades, Chef Chu’s has been a destination for Silicon’s Valley elite, serving up what critics call delicious but innovative Chinese comfort food..
Chu, 44, grew up doing his homework or helping out in his family’s restaurant, absorbing his parents’ love of American pop culture as well as the spirit of entrepreneurship alive in some of his parents’ customers. He also began making home movies, starting with the purchase of audio/video mixer from a 1992 Sharper Image catalog, Chu shared in an interview, Ruth Chu proudly displayed her son’s student film awards from USC. She also laughed about how she was her own kind of “tiger mom.
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