Fun Featurette For Disney's Upcoming Fantasy Adventure Series AMERICAN BORN CHINESE with Michelle Yeoh
Disney has a new fantasy adventure series currently in production titled American Born Chinese, which is based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang. A new featurette was released at D23 Expo giving fans a first look at the series, and wild series with some cool martial arts action scenes.
Michelle Yeoh plays a mythological goddess in the Disney+ series, and she explains: “It’s a lot of fun, it’s a log of magic, it’s a lot of badass action. It is a magical ride and that’s what Disney+ is all about.”
American Born Chinese tells the story of Jin Wang (Ben Wang), “an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his home life. When he meets a new student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.”
The series also stars Yeo Yann Yann as Christine Wang, Chin Han as Simon Wang, Ke Huy Quan as Freddy Wong, Jimmy Liu as Wei-Chen, Sydney Taylor as Amelia with Daniel Wu as Sun Wukong “The Monkey King” and Yeoh as Guanyin.
Kelvin Yu (Bob’s Burgers) serves as executive producer and showrunner. Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is directing and serves as executive producer, alongside Melvin Mar and Jake Kasdan (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.), Erin O’Malley (Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.), Asher Goldstein (Short Term 12) and Gene Luen Yang. Guest directors for the show include Peng Zhang (Episode 4) and Lucy Liu (Episode 6).
American Born Chinese is expected to be released on Disney+ in 2023.