John Nicolleta, who is best known for his directing and producing in the television series Miami Vice, worked in several films such as Born to Win, Crazy Rich Asians and Sweet Revenge and as a production manager on the film Saturday Night Fever.
Other films soon followed, the Paul Newman-directed film The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972), Crazy Joe (1974) starring Peter Boyle, Sweet Revenge (1976) starring Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston and Time Square (1980). Producer Nina Jacobson later announced that China Rich Girlfriend and an adaptation of the final installment in Kwan's trilogy, Rich People Problems, will be filmed back-to-back in 2020 to reduce the wait time between those two films. 
