Michelle Yeoh Tops the Kick-Ass Cast of Disney’s American Born Chinese

Disney simply revealed the solid checklist for its upcoming streaming adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and it’s stacked. Superstar Michelle Yeoh, who’s poised to have a tremendous 2022 already, stars alongside Into the Badlands’ Daniel Wu, Mortal Kombat’s Chin Han, and Goonies and Indiana Jones star Ke Huy Quan, and that’s not even entering into the leads.

Executive produced by Daniel Destin Cretton, who launched final 12 months’s Marvel hit Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, American Born Chinese follows a younger man named Jin Wang. He’s a typical teenager going by all of the perils of highschool when his life is flipped the other way up by Wei-Chen, a brand new scholar he meets at college. Wei-Chen’s household has a protracted storied historical past and collectively, the pair change into a part of a legendary struggle between Chinese gods… while nonetheless in highschool.

Ben Wang (MacGyver) is taking part in Jin Wang and newcomer Jim Liu is Wei-Chen. Here’s how the remainder of the solid breaks down, as per a Disney press launch.

• Michelle Yeoh as “Guanyin,” an unassuming auntie, who helps her nephew Wei-Chen navigate the challenges of American highschool whereas sustaining her secret identification because the omnipotent Buddhist bodhisattva of Compassion.
• Yeo Yann Yann as Jin’s mother, “Christine Wang,” a strong-willed, opinionated girl with a sly wit, who loves her household deeply.
• Chin Han as Jin’s father, “Simon Wang,” a hard-working, devoted father and husband who’s bumping up towards the “bamboo ceiling” at his job.
• Daniel Wu as Sun Wukong “The Monkey King,” the legendary, omnipotent god of the Chinese epic Journey to the West, who enters our world looking for his son.
• Ke Huy Quan as “Freddy Wong,” a fictional character from a preferred mid-Nineties sitcom.
• Sydney Taylor as “Amelia,” a pleasant “All-American” woman who’s Jin’s classmate and crush.

Production on what’s being described as a “genre-hopping action-comedy” begins later this month. In addition to Cretton, who’ll direct the present, Emmy winner Kelvin Yu of Bob’s Burgers fame will showrun and Melvin Mar and Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji: The Next Level) be a part of them as govt producers alongsidefacet Erin O’Malley (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.), Asher Goldstein (Short Term 12), and Gene Luen Yang.

No phrase on when the present will debut on Disney+ however you may be positive we’ll study extra within the coming months, most doubtless on the D23 Expo in August.

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