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After making the hit film Crazy Rich Asians and the film adaptation of Lin Manuel Miranda's Tony Award winning Broadway musical in the Heights, my guest John M.
Chu is now adapting Crazy Rich Asians into a Broadway musical.
Hes directing a film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Wicked, which is expected to open in November.
He loves musicals, and his first feature film was supposed to be an updated version of the musical bye Bye Birdie.
Why that never happened is one of the disappointments he writes about in his new memoir.
The memoir is part prequel to his career, but its also about making movies.
Chu grew up in Silicon Valley at a time when Apple was getting started.
Lots of startups were starting up and his friends father was also the father of gps navigation.
Chu was an early adapter to as much new digital tech as he could get his hands on.
His tech know how served him well in his film career, but he soured on the tech industrys impact on how movies are seen mostly at home and not in theaters.
His parents are immigrants, his mother from Taiwan, his father from China.
They own a chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley that they opened in 1970.
Chu says it started as a lunch counter restaurant in a nothing special strip mall, but by the time he was born in 1979, it had become a local institution.
Steve Jobs was an early customer.