Riz Ahmed, Lulu Wang to supply comedy collection ‘Son of Good Fortune’

By IANS

LOS ANGELES: British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed and filmmaker Lulu Wang are becoming a member of fingers to supply a comedy collection ‘The Son of Good Fortune’.

Based on the novel of the identical title by Lysley Tenorio, the collection is about an undocumented Filipino teenager within the Bay space navigating a tumultuous relationship together with his former B-movie motion star mom, falling in love for the primary time, and figuring out find out how to pay again a large debt earlier than his entire life crumbles, stories selection.com.

Andrew Lopez will adapt the ebook for the display screen and function an govt producer.

Ahmed will govt produce together with Allie Moore of Left Handed. Wang and Dani Melia govt produce for Local Time. Tenorio will function consulting producer, with Amazon Studios producing.

The venture is the primary for Left Handed because it was introduced that Ahmed and the corporate had signed a first-look TV deal at Amazon in January.

He beforehand partnered with the streamer on the critically-acclaimed movie ‘Sound of Metal’, for which Ahmed acquired an Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nomination for greatest actor.

Wang is presently engaged on the collection ‘Expats’, on which she is the author, director, govt producer, and showrunner. That collection relies on the novel ‘The Expatriates’ by Janice Y.Ok. Lee. She has beforehand directed and wrote the highly-regarded movies ‘The Farewell’ and ‘Posthumous’.