Malaysian-born screenwriter Adele Lim, who co-wrote Crazy Rich Asians, has left the sequels to the last year's smash hit romantic comedy over a pay disparity dispute.
According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, Lim was offered significantly lower pay compared to her co-writer Peter Chiarelli, as it was deemed that he had more experience than she did in writing feature films (Crazy Rich Asians was Lim's first feature film, having writing mostly for television before that).
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