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The Monkey King is a 2014 Chinese-Hong Kong film directed by Cheang Pou-soi and stars Donnie Yen as Sun Wukong. The movie depicts Wukong's rebellion against Heaven. The Monkey King 2 is a 2016 sequel to the 2014 Chinese-Hong Kong film The Monkey King directed by Cheang Pou-soi and stars Aaron Kwok as Sun Wukong, replacing Donnie Yen from the ...
The Monkey King (also known as The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven's Palace) is a 2014 Hong Kong [1]-Chinese [2] action-fantasy film directed by Soi Cheang and starring Donnie Yen as the titular protagonist Sun Wukong.
Martial Arts Superstar Donnie Yen plays Sun Wukong in the 2014 movie The Monkey King; despite mixed reviews surrounding the film’s pacing, it was a huge box office success grossing almost US$200 million worldwide, doubling its budget with Donnie Yen’s performance being lauded. [17]
The film has a reported budget of around US$64 million. Filming started on 6 August 2015, starring Kris Wu as Tang Sanzang, Lin Gengxin as Sun Wukong, Mengke Bateer as Sha Wujing, Yao Chen as Taoist and Bao Bei'er as an unannounced character; Shu Qi and Cheng Sihan reprise their roles as Duan and Master Nameless respectively.
It is based on Jin Hezai's internet novel Wukong Biography, which retells the story of Sun Wukong (the Monkey King) in the classical novel Journey to the West and is partly inspired by the 1995 comedy film A Chinese Odyssey. The film was released in China on 13 July 2017. [4] [5]
The all-powerful Monkey King, Sun Wukong, is imprisoned by the Buddha within an ice cage deep within the mountains for rebelling against heaven.. 500 years later, Mountain Trolls attack a group of travelers, all except for a baby boy named Liuer are killed, and Liuer is adopted by a monk after floating down a river in a basket.
500 years after Sun Wukong's imprisonment under the Five Fingers Mountain, a young Buddhist monk Tang Sanzang (Feng Shaofeng) sets out for a journey to the Thunder Monastery in India to collect Buddha's scriptures. When he is attacked by a tiger, he is forced to free Wukong and the Monkey King learns that he has to protect the monk throughout ...
The original cast members of The Monkey King 2: Aaron Kwok, Feng Shaofeng, Xiaoshenyang and Him Law reprised their roles as Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing respectively in the film. [6] Liu Tao, Lin Chi-ling, and Gigi Leung joined the cast for this installment. [7]