Director Andrew Ahn had worked with Joel Kim Booster for the movie Fire Island back in 2022, and now he’s back for a star-studded LGBTQ+ rom-com with The Wedding Banquet.
Check out the trailer starring Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang, Han Gi-chan, and Lily Gladstone:
Here’s the official description:
Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments, but can’t afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee’s IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min’s skeptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza.
Surprisingly, this film is actually a remake of the 1993 movie The Wedding Banquet from director Ang Lee. Based on the trailer, it does look like the remake adds a bit more complications to the relationships, and it switches out a conservative Chinese family for a conservative Korean one. Check out the trailer:
We don’t know how else the movie could be different, but judging by the change in the cultural standing of queer people, it’s possible that the reboot would want to say something more current and poignant.
Watch out for The Wedding Banquet when it hits cinemas on April 18.
