Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone Superstar Ang Lee Remake

Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone assist plan a sham wedding ceremony within the first trailer for “The Marriage ceremony Dinner party,” a contemporary retelling of Ang Lee’s 1993 queer comedy of mistakes.

Set in Seattle, “The Marriage ceremony Dinner party” follows Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) and her female friend, Lee (Gladstone), who’re seeking to have a toddler thru IVF however can’t have the funds for to pay for some other spherical of fertility remedy. In the meantime their good friend Min (Han Gi-chan), a closeted scion of a multinational empire, has a pupil visa that’s about to run out. When his boyfriend Chris (Yang) rejects his marriage proposal for quite a lot of causes, he pops the query to Angela as a substitute. From there, a marriage plot is hatched: a inexperienced card marriage in change for investment Lee’s IVF. However their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s grandmother (“Minari” Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung) flies in from Korea to fulfill her long run granddaughter-in-law and insists on throwing them an all-out wedding ceremony extravaganza. Naturally, numerous hijinks ensue.

“We wish to de-queer the home,” Yang’s personality shouts as his boyfriend drives again from the airport along with his grandma. “God, you’ve got so a lot lesbian literature.” Later within the trailer, Tran’s Angela spots a stray, betraying piece of artwork in the toilet. As she takes the body off the wall, she laments: “The entirety on this home is homosexual!”

“Fireplace Island” filmmaker Andrew Ahn directed the remake, which premiered at Sundance Movie Competition on Monday. James Schamus, who co-wrote the unique with Lee and Neil Peng, additionally penned this up to date take with Ahn. The director admits he didn’t essentially really feel a “Marriage ceremony Dinner party” remake used to be essential, even though he ultimately discovered price within the concept.

“Occasions have modified since 1993 for queer folks,” Ahn advised Selection previous to the movie’s Sundance premiere. “There used to be a brand new model of the tale lets inform. We will be able to get married. Now that we will get married, must we? Will we wish to? As a millennial, there’s this burden of selection. It shifts the generational focal point, and it’s having a look towards the longer term.”

Watch the primary teaser beneath: