When I first moved to Los Angeles, everyone told me to give it "at least two years." They said that's how long it would take to find out whether I could live there. But to like it, let alone love it? Who knows! Everything was beautiful and nothing felt real. As a spinning Rachel Sennott put it in a bizarrely compelling 2020 video that's essentially a succinct thesis statement for the dissertation that is her 2025 HBO show: "Come on! It's L.A.! Haha! What?! It's L.A.!"
The director is not only releasing Wicked: For Good later this year, but he's also attached to projects ranging from Hot Wheels to a Britney Spears biopic, Split Fiction with Sydney Sweeney, Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and an adaptation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Amidst all the madness, Chu is also still working on one of his other highly-anticipated projects: the sequel to Crazy Rich Asians.