Disney+’s new series ‘American Born Chinese’ released a special featurette in D23, where the creator introduces the series, Daniel Wu as “The Monkey KingSun Wukong”, Michelle Yeoh as Daniel Wu as “The Monkey KingSun Wukong”, Michelle Yeoh as “Guanyin” and others also made an appearance.
Ben Wang (‘MacGyver Season 1’) plays the young hero Jin Wang, and Yeo Yann Yann, Chin Han, Jonathan Ke Quan, Jim Liu, Sydney Taylor (‘Just Add Magic: Mystery City’) also starred.
‘American Born Chinese’ is based on the comic of the same name written by Gene Luen Yang, directed by Destin Cretton and Lucy Liu, with ‘Bob’s Burgers: The Movie’s’ Kelvin Yu and ‘Westworld’s’ Kelvin Yu of ‘Bob’s Burgers: The Movie’ and Charles Yu of ‘Westworld’ wrote the script, with Kelvin Yu also serving as the showrunner.
Yeo Yann Yann and Chin Han play Jin Wang’s parents Christine and Simon, Daniel Wu plays “The Monkey King Sun Wukong” who comes looking for his son, and Jonathan Ke Quan plays a fictional character from a 1990s sitcom. Jonathan Ke Quan as Jin Wang, a fictional character from a 1990s sitcom; Jim Liu as Jin Wang’s friend Wei-Chen; and Taylor as Amelia, Jin Wang’s crush on a classmate.
Based on Gene Luen Yang’s best-selling graphic novel of the same name, the original story revolves around three threads: The Monkey King’s (Daniel Wu) great confrontation with the Heavenly Palace is a household myth in China, but the novel presents a fresh American version of the story, with practice, revenge, challenge, failure and redemption: The Monkey King has the innate spirit of a king, proficient in arcane kung fu and magic, and is admired by monkeys and monkeys as the greatest monkey in the world. But he is not willing to be a monkey, he wants to become a worshipped god in heaven.
The series features Jin Wang, an American-born Chinese-American teenager, and is a new adaptation of ‘The Journey to the West’, The Monkey King, and other Chinese myths, legends and traditions, described as “an action-comedy series exploring identity, culture and family.
Jin Wang, a Chinese-American teenager, follows his parents from San Francisco’s Chinatown, where he has lived for nine years, and moves to a purely white neighborhood. He finds himself the only Chinese-American in school, bullied and with almost no friends. To make matters worse, he also fell in love with a white girl ……
Chinsi, the Chinese, is the stereotypical Chink image to Americans, smart and vulgar and offensive. He disrupts his life by visiting his American cousin Danny from China every year. And Danny, a basketball player and the talk of the school, has to transfer every year to escape the shame Chinsi brings.
The year gets worse …… By the end, the three seemingly unrelated threads magically merge into a marvelous modern-day fable that incorporates Chinese kung fu and school furore.
Michelle Yeoh plays Guanyin, the humble aunt who helps her nephew Wei-Chen cope with the challenges of American high school while maintaining her secret identity as the Bodhisattva of Guanyin.
Stephanie Hsu plays Shiji Niangniang, who works in a jewelry store with her magical dog during the week. Jonathan Ke Quan plays Freddy Wong, a fictional 1990s sitcom star.
American Born Chinese’ follows an ordinary teenager struggling to adjust to his high school and immigrant family life, and when he meets a new foreign student during his first year in high school, more worlds collide and Jin Wang is drawn into a battle of Chinese mythological gods and goddesses. “.
Michelle Yeoh plays “Guanyin” – Wei-Chen’s unassuming aunt, whose true form is that of the compassionate Goddess of Mercy.
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