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| Award-winning Aline Brosh McKenna and Rene Gube will team up on a new project. |
I DON'T WANT get too excited, but this is BIG NEWS!
Deadline reports that Rene Gube, one of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's writer and from time to time, plays lead character Josh Chan's spiritual advisor as hip priest Father Brah, is teaming up with CEG's co-creator/showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna to work on prospective series Big Men.
CBS TV Studios, where Brosh McKenna is under an overall deal, is the studio that has bought the series.
The premise for Big Men should draw an instant audience from Asian/Americans, especially Filipino/Americans, who are crazy about basketball. Written and executive produced by Brosh McKenna and Gube, Big Men centers on an Asian-American rookie pro basketball player who dreams of a baller lifestyle but standing in his way are his 13-year-old twin sisters whom he co-parents with his overbearing immigrant father.
Although there are no current plans for Gube to act in the project, in an episode in CEG, Gube, as Fr. Brah, looked pretty comfortable around a basketball court as he he shot basketballs with Josh Chan.
Brosh McKenna co-created with star Rachel Bloom the hourlong musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, now in its third season on the CW. In the series, Josh Filipino/American actor Vincent Rodriguez, was cast as the romantic leading man, a rarity in Hollywood.
The show also made history when it featured Chan's Filipino/American family was in a Thanksgiving episode. Since then, the "family" has appeared several times in their recurring roles.
Josh’s mom, Lourdes, is played by Amy Hill, whom Brosh McKenna remembered from working on a project together 20 years ago. Hill is half-Japanese, while the rest of Josh’s immediate family was played by Filipino/American actors: Alberto Issac was cast as his father (Joseph), and Tess Paras (a friend of Bloom’s she had wanted to cast for a while) and Coryn Mabalot play his sisters (Jayma and Jastenity, respectively).
Gube was previously a writer and actor on TBS’s Ground Floor, where he told Vulture he sneaked his ethnicity into a script. “I fought all year to get one joke in that identified me as a Filipino person,” he said. “I saw how much that meant to Filipino people on Twitter, and I can relate because growing up, there was only Rob Schneider and Lou Diamond Phillips.
"To have an opportunity to create a fully developed Filipino character, a male romantic lead, (for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) I’ve never seen that before, and I was super excited about that. It is a great opportunity to show a Filipino family on network television, and show how American that Filipino family truly is.”
Although the ethnicity of the family in Big Men hasn't been identified beyond being described as Asian/American, you can bet Gube will have something to say about that.
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The show also made history when it featured Chan's Filipino/American family was in a Thanksgiving episode. Since then, the "family" has appeared several times in their recurring roles.
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| The Chan family of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was the first Filipnon/American family introduced on U.S. television. |
Gube was previously a writer and actor on TBS’s Ground Floor, where he told Vulture he sneaked his ethnicity into a script. “I fought all year to get one joke in that identified me as a Filipino person,” he said. “I saw how much that meant to Filipino people on Twitter, and I can relate because growing up, there was only Rob Schneider and Lou Diamond Phillips.
"To have an opportunity to create a fully developed Filipino character, a male romantic lead, (for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) I’ve never seen that before, and I was super excited about that. It is a great opportunity to show a Filipino family on network television, and show how American that Filipino family truly is.”
Although the ethnicity of the family in Big Men hasn't been identified beyond being described as Asian/American, you can bet Gube will have something to say about that.
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