Instead of shunning martial arts as cliché or stereotypical, many Asian creatives have leaned into that audience familiarity to help tell complex stories surrounding their experiences in this country and beyond. Michelle Yeoh has played a role in some of these recent efforts, including Disney+’s “American Born Chinese” and Marvel’s box office smash “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” Now the “Everything Everywhere All At Once” star and historic Oscar winner is back at it, bringing her Hollywood clout to “The Brothers Sun” on Netflix.
Newcomer Byron Wu’s dark action comedy (reportedly in the works since at least 2018, before linking with the highly bankable Brad Falchuk of “Nip/Tuck,” “Glee,” “American Horror Story” fame) is a stylized gangster series in which Los Angeles and Taipei are worthy sister cities both poshly modern and Asian-centric.
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