EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning writer, screenwriter and producer Charles Yu has signed with Blue Marble Administration for illustration throughout movie, tv, and all media.
Yu created, govt produced and served as showrunner of Inside Chinatown primarily based on his novel of the identical identify, winner of the 2020 Nationwide Ebook Award for Fiction, for Hulu and twentieth Tv. His collection adaptation was directed by Taika Waititi and produced by Dan Lin, Participant, and Garrett Basch. He additionally served as an govt producer on American Born Chinese language, for Disney+ and twentieth Tv.
He’s at the moment writing and govt producing the tv adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ Take into account Phlebas, the primary novel within the Scottish writer’s basic Tradition e book collection, for Amazon MGM Studios. The undertaking hails from govt producers Chloé Zhao by her firm Ebook of Shadows; Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Nina Wolarsky at Plan B; and Adele Banks.
Hs different writing-producing credit embody Westworld for HBO, for which he obtained two WGA Award nominations, Sorry For Your Loss starring Elizabeth Olsen, Legion for FX, Right here and Now for HBO, and Lodge 49 for AMC.
Yu is also at the moment penning options for Searchlight Photos.
Along with his novel Inside Chinatown, Yu penned Learn how to Dwell Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. His brief story My Final Days As Me received the Robert Olen Butler Prize and his brief story Third Class Superhero was honored with the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award in 2004. His works have been cited in a number of year-end ‘Finest Of’ lists, and have appeared in Time Journal, The New York Occasions, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Harvard Evaluation.
A primary-generation Taiwanese American, Yu is a graduate of UC Berkeley, the place he studied molecular and mobile biology, and Columbia Legislation College, the place he obtained his J.D. He was a profitable company legal professional for a few years earlier than transitioning into writing.
Yu joins Blue Marble Administration’s roster that features Oscar winners Alfonso Cuarón (Roma, Gravity), Chris Terrio (Argo), Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire), Emmy winners and nominees Lena Waithe (Grasp of None, The Chi), Prentice Penny (Uncorked, Insecure), Gillian Flynn (Gone Lady), Little Marvin (Them: Covenant), amongst others.
He continues to be represented by UTA, Ken Richman and Robby Koch of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs, and Fox L.L.P. In publishing, he’s represented by Julie Barer at The Ebook Group.
