Maya Evangelista ✨

Multimedia Journalist & Graphic Designer living life with friendly, deadly earnestness 🖖🏾

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The sequel to a $239 million movie fell apart over a $110,000 offer. And the writer who walked away just got handed the entire franchise.

Crazy Rich Asians cost Warner Bros $30 million in 2018 and grossed $239 million worldwide. First studio film with an all-Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club in 1993. A sequel should have been greenlit before opening weekend ended.

Instead the franchise went dark for seven years.

The unraveling started with the pay offers. Co-writer Peter Chiarelli, the veteran who wrote The Proposal, was offered $800,000 to $1 million for the sequel. Adele Lim, the writer Jon M. Chu brought in to give the script its cultural voice, was offered around $110,000. Chiarelli offered to split his own fee with her. She turned it down, said what she makes shouldn't depend on the generosity of the white-guy writer, and quit.

Warner Bros came back months later with an offer near parity. She passed on that too.

Without her, the sequel never recovered. Chu left to make In the Heights and then Wicked. Two separate sequel attempts collapsed. The most bankable rom-com of its decade produced nothing for most of a decade.

Now look at the structure of what got announced. The HBO series runs through Lim's own production company, 100 Tigers, with Lim as showrunner, writer, and executive producer. Chu and Kevin Kwan are EPs on her show. Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh are all back.

In 2019 the studio wouldn't match her co-writer's $800,000. In 2027 the same studio is putting the whole franchise in her hands.

Walking away from the biggest credit of her career looked like a terrible move for a first-time feature writer. It turned out to be the trade that got her everything.

[🎧Astro girl🫧 @Amarachukwuuu]

She’s got a promising future, we shouldn’t let one act ruin her life

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

Jailing another country's president for breaking US law while refusing to hold the US president accountable for breaking US law is strange.

[LPC @landpalestine]

The President of Columbia the one who refused to shake her hand after she was raped , is mentioned in the Epstein files

[chico terry @lamastabo]

Pensando en el Tiktok que decía que las mujeres siempre somos muy jóvenes o muy viejas para las cosas ya que la edad correcta es ser hombre

[sugar 🦸🏾‍♀️ @GrimesXGurira]

NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! SAY HIS NAME!
#NolanWells

[‎Márcia @mhargitay__]

This is what I like to see 😌

[saira @sairaspooks]

honestly give me a friendship like this i’m so sick of no one being invested in me and my interests

[∆ 🎭 @Bloodraven____]

Drugged a women and raped her. He Wants to be a doctor. If he escapes this time, he will be a predator lose in hospitals probably raping women in ICU. Ruin his life now.

[ɴᴀᴅɪ. @luvherout]

Prosecutors in Central New York are reopening the investigation into the Cornell University gang rape. Clearly, public pressure worked. Good.

[Henry @Henry404gd]

sometimes the only way to be seen is to leave.

[iSlimSaint ➐ @DuhwayneBangz]

Actually let’s normalize getting tested regularly ( every 3 mo) regardless of relationship status 😅

[Ms. @Ms_Kamau_]

Let’s normalize a full STD panel screening before & after every partner 💯

[Mansi @mansihukmani_]

get in loser we’re going to risk embarrassment in pursuit of human connection

[Aine Branagh @AineBranagh]

Because this ugly chud failed to do his job, this woman has to try this brutal, heinous crime in civil court. I hope she bankrupts Cornell. And I hope this asshole loses his job and career.

[Comrade Misty is Putin’s Buddy @SarcasmStardust]

This is really the most important information you need.

[ToutdeSuiteLaSinner Is Salty AF @ToutSuiteSinner]

The Cornell response to the raping of a female student is how we end up with Trumps, Epsteins, and Kavanaughs.

I said what I said.

[Comrade Misty is Putin’s Buddy @SarcasmStardust]

Hey so, let’s also expose the administration that’s allowing rapists to roam free.

[‏ً @itsnwts]

You know what’s more dangerous than trans athlete???

7 Frat boys at Cornell University…

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

“We take sexual violence extremely seriously” you offered the seven men who raped her the chance to write an ESSAY as a form of mitigation for their actions. You are 100% complicit in this.