EXCLUSIVE: William Mundell’s Neurosphere Entertainment has acquired film and TV rights to The Lucky Ones : One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America , historian Mae Ngai ‘s work of nonfiction that tells a multigenerational story of trailblazers in the fight for Chinese American civil rights during the Chinese Exclusion era.

Neurosphere is developing the book as a historical drama spanning both feature film and limited series formats. Mundell will produce alongside Joseph Culp , who will pen scripts with Robyn Mundell .

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (now by Mariner Books/HarperCollins, in paperback by Princeton Press) The Lucky Ones centers on Joseph and Mary Tape, immigrants who defied systemic racism in 19th century San Francisco to demand eq

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