Disney’s American Born Chinese Is an Everything Everywhere All at Once Reunion

Amid a completely stacked solid, Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Nora from Queens) has been solid as a visitor star within the new Disney+ sequence American Born Chinese. According to Variety, “Hsu will appear as Shiji Niangniang, the Goddess of Stones, who works in a modern day jewelry shop along with her magical dog.”

American Born Chinese is predicated on the graphic novel of the identical title by Gene Luen Yang that depicts the intersection of Chinese mythology and household by means of the enmeshing of three storylines. Kelvin Yu is poised to jot down, produce, and act because the showrunner for the present, which already reads as being way more action-oriented than the unique graphic novel, which advised a grounded, cautious storyline amid magic and id. Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) directs and govt produces.

In the Disney+ present, the sequence will comply with Jin Wang (Ben Wang), who’s struggling to stability his highschool social life and the pressures he feels at dwelling. When Jin runs into Chinese alternate pupil Wei-Chen (Jim Liu) on the primary day of college, “their worlds collide as Jin becomes entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods. Identity, culture and family are themes throughout,” in keeping with Variety.

Also within the solid is Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, each of whom starred alongside Hsu within the Daniels’ multiverse movie, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Revealed in a Disney press launch, Yeoh (who was additionally in Cretton’s Shang-Chi) will play Guanyin, an unassuming auntie, who helps her nephew Wei-Chen navigate the challenges of American highschool whereas sustaining her secret id because the omnipotent Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion. Quan performs as Freddy Wong, a fictional character from a preferred mid-Nineties sitcom. Also within the solid is Daniel Wu because the Monkey King, Sun Wukong—the legendary, omnipotent god of the Chinese epic Journey to the West, who enters our world in the hunt for his son. There’s no phrase but on when American Born Chinese may be premiering, nevertheless it’s excessive on our record of must-watch sequence when it does.

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