Jason Wong To Host Gangster Podcast ‘Bad Money’ For Vespucci & Kindling Media
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Jason Wong, who starred alongside Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant and Charlie Hunnam in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentleman, is exploring Hong Kong’s most notorious gangster in a new narrative podcast series.
The actor is hosting Bad Money, a six-part series that charts the life of Big Spender, otherwise known as Cheung Tze-keung Beginning with cash hauls and prison breaks, over the course of the podcast we hear how Big Spender’s heists gradually became more and more extreme, until eventually he committed a crime so big that it broke records around the world and attracted the wrath of the Chinese government.
Crimes included the kidnapping of Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, son of Li Ka Shing, and Walter Kwok, chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, reaping billions in ransom money.
He was convicted and sentenced to death in Guangzhou at the end of 1998. The series explores what begins as a story about gangsters, fame and fortune, gradually evolves into an exploration of worsening relations between Hong Kong and China, and how Big Spender’s actions provoked a geopolitical crisis that would reshape Hong Kong’s history for good.
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