Editing Charlie Chan (section)

==== Modern adaptations ====
In Neil Simon's ''[[Murder by Death]]'', [[Peter Sellers]] plays a Chinese detective called Sidney Wang, a parody of Chan.

In 1980, Jerry Sherlock began production on a comedy film to be called ''Charlie Chan and the Dragon Lady''. A group calling itself C.A.N. (Coalition of Asians to Nix) was formed, protesting the fact that non-Chinese actors, [[Peter Ustinov]] and [[Angie Dickinson]], had been cast in the primary roles. Others protested that the film script contained a number of stereotypes; Sherlock responded that the film was not a documentary.<ref>Chan (2001), 58.</ref> The film was released the following year as ''[[Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen]]'' and was an "abysmal failure".<ref>Pitts (1991), 301.</ref><ref name="Sengupta">Sengupta (1997).</ref> An updated film version of the character was planned in the 1990s by [[Miramax]]. While this Charlie Chan was to be "hip, slim, cerebral, sexy and... a martial-arts master," and portrayed by actor [[Russell Wong]], nonetheless the film did not come to fruition.<ref name="Sengupta" /> Actress [[Lucy Liu]] was slated to star in and executive-produce a new Charlie Chan film for Fox.<ref>Littlejohn (2008).</ref> The film was in preproduction by 2000; as of 2009, it was slated to be produced,<ref>Yang Jie (2009).</ref> but it also did not come to fruition.