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EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Peter Chiarelli has teamed with SK Global and Project Brazen to write a television adaptation chronicling the decades-long “Fat Leonard” U.S. Navy scandal, one of the military's largest national security breaches. The script will be based on Project Brazen’s popular podcast Fat Le…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Color Force have set up-and-coming Chinese-Australian writer Amy Wang to pen Crazy Rich Asians 2, Deadline can reveal, replacing Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim following a 2019 controversy around pay parity. Wang takes on sole writing duties for Jon M. Chu’s sequel starring Henry Golding and…

EXCLUSIVE: Beating out bidders from several studios in a fevered auction, Sony Pictures is in negotiations to score rights to The Tree With Matchmaking Powers, an article in The Atlantic by Jeff Maysh. Peter Chiarelli (Crazy Rich Asians) will script a movie based on the true story of a German mailman who delivers love…

ABC has put in development a fashion drama from Crazy Rich Asians writer Peter Chiarelli, designer Zac Posen (Project Runway), ABC Studios and studio-based Mandeville Television. Written by Chiarelli, the drama is set in the world of fashion. Chiarelli and Posen executive produce with Mandeville’s David Hoberman…

Universal has acquired rights to an untitled holiday comedy pitch from Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films, with Chastain aboard to produce and star alongside Octavia Spencer. Crazy Rich Asians scribe Peter Chiarelli will pen the script based on an original treatment by Chastain and Kelly Carmichael, with the plot mostly…