called interior chinatown that debuts tomorrow, and it's based on the book by uc berkeley alum charles yuod. reporter george pennacchio from our sister station in los angeles, talked to the minds behind the show. >> in chinatown, nothing ever changes. >> interior chinatown tells the story of willis wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural who finds himself breaking out of his role and into the spotlight. i need your help. >> why me? >> you know chinatown better than i do. i need someone on the inside. >> oh, he has that fire in his belly that he wants to do more and be more. and it's something that i related to a lot. he's a bit of a maverick in a way. although he's still scared of the world. >> when willis is enlisted for help by a mysterious cop played by chloe bennet, suddenly the world around him begins to reveal itself in a new light. >> you are getting involved with things you don't yet understand. >> i think i forced willis. yeah. you literally. he's like the inciting incident. she seems very assured and very confident and very. she takes the. she kind of takes wil

sheent kind of takes willis on this journey. >> when it came to creating this story, charles yu askedlf this question. >> how can we take a tv show, take a well-understood form, like a cop show, and break it into pieces and then reassemble it? >> and executive producer taika waititi took what he learned as a marvel director to this series. >> some of those things are lik, so confusing and like, if you were to try and explain it to like someone who wasn't fromo earth, what the story is, it's like, what is this guy trying to do? he's trying to get all these jewels and stick them in a glove. but that's one thing i learned. just inform people. just tell them what's happening, and then they're like, got it? let's go with the cop show within a show. >> oh, he's in it now. >> and what in hollywood, george pennacchio abc seven news. >> okay, so it's interesting. the characters are super compelling. i think it's going to be really fun. even better visually on tv than in a book form, which was great already. >> and you read the book? >> yeah, yeah, definitely. check it out. all ten episodes of