Crazy Rich Asians producer, Michelle Yeoh team up for Billion Dollar Whale flick

Updated 7 years ago · Published on 28 Sep 2018 7:50AM · 3 Comments

In a first-look deal, Crazy Rich Asians star Michelle Yeoh will produce, direct and choose acting opportunities for the Billion Dollar Whale movie. – AFP pic, September 28, 2018.

CRAZY Rich Asians producer Ivanhoe Pictures has acquired film rights to Billion Dollar Whale, which details the massive scandal plaguing 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

The agreement, announced yesterday, will see the SK Global company teaming up with actress-producer Michelle Yeoh, who stars alongside Constance Wu and Henry Golding in the box-office smash.

Screen Daily reported that the first-look deal includes producing, directing and choosing acting opportunities for Yeoh, in partnership with SK Global and her company, Mythical Films.

Billion Dollar Whale, authored by Wall Street Journal reporters Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, hones in on wanted Penang-born businessman Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, who is at the heart of the 1MDB controversy.

It was released in Malaysia on Tuesday to much fanfare, with 200 hardcover and paperback copies sold out at Suria KLCC’s Kinokuniya bookstore.

However, Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown has poured scorn on the book, saying she was the one who first broke the 1MDB scandal and gave the WSJ reporters her contacts. – September 28, 2018.

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  • Finally a chance for our lady datuk to play a role in telling the world the truth about 1MDB?

    Posted 7 years ago by Roger 5201 · Reply

  • Michelle Yeoh? The die-hard supporter of perompak? Pi la.

    Posted 7 years ago by Awang Bilis · Reply

  • Boycott the opportunistic hypocritical bitch!

    Posted 7 years ago by Mahsuri Smiles · Reply