Random Home will publish a memoir by Depraved director Jon M. Chu this summer season.
Titled Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen, the guide, co-authored with Jeremy McCarter, will likely be launched July 23.
An announcement by Random Home immediately says, “With placing candor and unmatched insights, Chu gives a firsthand account of the collision of Silicon Valley and Hollywood – what it’s been like to observe his previous world shatter and reshape his new one. In the end, Viewfinder is about reckoning with your individual story, turning into your most artistic self, and discovering a path all your individual.”
Earlier than he directed such movies as Loopy Wealthy Asians, In The Heights and the upcoming film adaptation of the musical Depraved, Chu was “a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese language American, serving to at his dad and mom’ Chinese language restaurant in Silicon Valley and ceaselessly going through the cultural id disaster endemic to youngsters of immigrants,” the discharge states. “Rising up on the chopping fringe of Twenty first-century know-how gave Chu the instruments he wanted to make his mark at USC movie faculty, and to be found by Steven Spielberg, however he quickly discovered himself struggling to grasp who he was.”
“Now, in his memoir, Chu dives deep into his life and work for the primary time,” the assertion continues, “telling the common story of questioning what it means when your desires collide together with your circumstances, and exploring the way it’s attainable to succeed even when the world modifications past all recognition.”
World rights had been acquired by Random Home Editor in Chief Ben Greenberg from Lacy Lynch at Dupree Miller. The guide will likely be printed in hardcover and digital codecs by Random Home, an imprint of the Random Home Publishing Group. An audiobook version, learn by the creator, will likely be launched concurrently by Penguin Random Home Audio.
“Like lots of people, I’ve spent the final couple of years making an attempt to navigate a world very totally different from what I anticipated it to be,” stated Chu in a press release. “I’m so excited to share this deeply private guide, which is a report of how I retraced the steps that introduced me right here: from being a wide-eyed child rising up through the rise of Silicon Valley, to studying the artwork of storytelling, to staying artistic whilst Hollywood cracks up throughout me. It’s the guide I want somebody had handed me after I was youthful, a first-gen child in search of causes to consider there’s a place for him on this planet. I hope it connects to anybody making an attempt to grasp who they’re, and why their story is value telling.”
McCarter is the co-author, with Lin-Manuel Miranda, of the bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution. He’s the creator of Younger Radicals, the founding father of the acclaimed audio storytelling firm Make-Imagine Affiliation, and the literary executor of the novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder.
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