EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloé Zhao will help bring the overlooked tragedy of Vincent Chin’s murder and the subsequent civil rights case to TV as she boards Participant’s limited scripted series as an executive producer.Participant’s upcoming series, which is in development through an exclusive agreement with the Chin estate and executor Helen Zia, will be the only authorized telling of the watershed civil rights case following the 1982 murder.In the summer of 1982, the Chinese American engineer was assaulted at a bar and murdered by two white disgruntled autoworkers, who assumed Chin was of Japanese descent and blamed him for Japan’s success in the automotive world and for stealing their jobs.
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