The man behind the crowd-pleasing film adaptation of the musical has set a new box office record
After this month’s elections, it seemed like nothing — and certainly nothing from California — could bring America together. But a burst of Hollywood blockbusters is achieving just that. Central to this cinematic escapism is Jon M Chu, director of Wicked, the film now lighting up the box office. Wicked took $114mn in the US on the crucial pre-Thanksgiving weekend, twice as much as Ridley Scott’s epic Gladiator II.
He directed some middling dance films and a couple of Justin Bieber documentaries. These were commercial successes, but Chu saw a problem: “Hollywood gave me a chance to make things before I’d figured out what I wanted to say,” he wrote in his memoir, Viewfinder. Having suffered anti-Asian racism , he wanted to get back to questioning racial stereotypes.
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