Actor Ali Wong has joined Amazon Prime Video's upcoming adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's Paper Girls as an adult version of Erin Tieng.
Amazon's official description for Wong's character describes her as "the woman our twelve-year-old Erin Tieng (Riley Lai Nelet) grows up to become. When the two Erins finally come face-to-face, they are forced to confront the gap between their childhood hopes, dreams, ambitions and the reality of their grown-up life."
An actor, writer and comedian, Wong is known for her roles in such TV shows as Tuca & Bertie and Big Mouth. In 2019, she starred alongside Randall Park and Keanu Reeves in Always Be My Maybe.
While Paper Girls does not yet have a release date, production will reportedly start this year in Chicago. Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man) and Christopher C. Rogers (Halt and Catch Fire) will serve as showrunners and executive produce alongside Stephany Folsom (Toy Story 4). The synopsis for the series can be found below:
Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world. As they travel between our present, the past, and the future — they encounter future versions of themselves and now must choose to embrace or reject their fate.
Amazon Studios' Paper Girls stars Sofia Rosinsky as Mac Coyle, Camryn Jones as Tiffany Quilkin, Riley Lai Nelet and Ali Wong as Erin Tieng and Fina Strazza as KJ Brandman. The series does not yet have a release date.