EXCLUSIVE: Producer Dani Melia describes how “a scrappy team” that made filmmaker Lulu Wang’s acclaimed low-budget feature The Farewell joined forces with Blossom Films’ Nicole Kidman and Per Saari to make “this big international production” Expats for Prime Video.
Melia tells me how she and Wang had “long talked about wanting to continue working together” after making The Farewell. Then, while they were promotingthe movie in Australia, Kidman approached Wang about directing an adaptation of Janice Y.K.
Lee’s book The Expatriates. Wang was excited, and Melia recalls the director telling her: ”I need to find a way to do this with you and the rest of the crew who did The Farewell.
I want my creative team onboard, and I think this should be our next thing.” Melia says that quite a few creatives from The Farewell ended up making the leap with them.
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