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Warner Bros. and New Line are moving forrad with an original China - set romanticistic comedy titledSingles Day . The news arrive red-hot on the heels of WB and director Jon M. Chu’sCrazy Rich Asiansmovie adaptation becoming a box post succeeder this retiring week , after earning an overall glowing reception from critic .
While Netflix has been doing its part to revive the rom - com - a writing style that ’s been largely sidelined in the modernistic era of franchise tentpoles and great - budget studio offering - with recent Original releases likeSet It Up , Crazy Rich Asiansis the first such film to collide with it big commercially since Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer’sTrainwrecktopped the box officeover three years ago . As proficient coincidence would have it , Crazy Rich Asiansdebuted over the same weekend that Netflix premier itsowncelebrated adjustment of a rom - com novel featuring a distaff Asian - American lead , To All the Boys I ’ve Loved Before . Thanks to these films ' winner , more romantic comedies featuring non - blank ( specifically , Asian or Asian - American ) protagonists are now picking up speed on their journey down the grapevine .
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THRis account that one such labor , titledSingles Day , has now been learn by WB and New Line , with Chris Bender ( We ’re the Henry Valentine Miller ) attached to produce . The film was inspired by the holiday Singles Day : an yearly event that takes place on November 11 ( with the day of the month 11/11 representing being individual ) , where young the great unwashed in China party and lionise the lack of a romantic relationship in their lives . Singles Daydoesn’t have a director draw up yet , but is establish on a screenplay by Lillian Yu ( a author on the NBC DC creation - ground workplace comedy , Powerless ) .
consort toTHR , the current programme is forSingles Dayto succeed multiple characters and tale togs , in the room that New Line rom - coms likeHe ’s Just Not That Into YouandValentine ’s Dayhave before it . Of course , the cultural backcloth will be one of the big difference betweenSingles Dayand exchangeable rom - com projects that have been eject in years past . Beyond that , it ’s certainly possible ( perhaps even likely ) that the former will feature a mixture of Asian - American and Asian actors either live in or shoot the breeze China during the nominal festivity , similar toCrazy Rich Asiansbefore it .
By the sound of it , Singles Dayfurther resemblesCrazy Rich Asiansin the sense that it takes an established read-only memory - com narration convention and finds a fresh angle on it by pore on the experiences of non - white character reference and/or people from a preponderantly non - white country . Between Chu ’s film andTo All the Boys I ’ve get laid Beforealone , that plan of attack has already begun to yield rich ( movie ) outcome , while in the process modernise different subgenres of fixed storage - com by piss them more inclusive . If all go well , Singles Daywill become both a success in its own right and another notable accession to this ongoing rom - com renaissance .
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We will land you additional detail onSingles Dayas they become useable .
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