Write On: 'Joy Ride' Screenwriters Teresa Hsiao and Cherry Chevapravatdumrong

When one woman's business trip turns into a quest to find her
family, things get super funny in the new comedy Joy Ride, a
raunchy road trip movie with a global spin. The film stars
Oscar-nominee Stephanie Hsu, Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Sabrina
Wu. 


Screenwriters Teresa Hsiao and Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, who
wrote the movie with writer/director Adele Lim, sat down with
Final Draft to talk about writing a passion project they never
thought would get made. “We were just going to write this dumb
thing together and it's going to be just for us and then all of a
sudden people are like, oh, we like it we want to make it, we're
like, right now?” Hsiao said.


The writers were thrilled, and they had worked together years
before on the animated show Family Guy. “We were well versed in
being collaborative and working together so when we started
writing the spec it was very natural,” says Chevapravatdumrong.


Listen to Final Draft's Write On podcast to hear about the
writing process, the laughs and making a movie they never thought
would get made.


Joy Ride is out in theaters July 7.