Get your sweats and tube of cookie dough ready, cause rom-coms are back, baby!
Netflix announced this week that standup/writer Ali Wong and Fresh off the Boat‘s Randall Park are set to star in a full-length romantic comedy for the streaming service. Apparently, the script got written after, nearly a year ago, Wong revealed that she and Park had toyed with the idea of writing a movie together, and the internet clamored for them to make it a reality.
Are you ready for the premise? According to Deadline, “[T]he film follows two childhood friends who find themselves in vastly different socioeconomic situations when they fall in love as adults.” It sort of sounds like Sweet Home Alabama, but with a long-overdue Asian-American couple playing the romantic leads. Plus, both stars’ comedy backgrounds means the “com” component in all this should really shine through.
give it to us https://t.co/raMUJv4dX3
— Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky (@nicolesjchung) August 15, 2017
No additional details about the cast or release date have been announced yet, but Netflix is reportedly “moving quickly to hire a director.”
Wong’s one-hour standup special Baby Cobra was released on the streaming service in 2016.
