Finally, at the beginning of the last month of the second half of this year, the sixth-year-old boy "Journey to the West" finally officially announced that it was officially ready to start shooting.
And this news comes from a group of actors recruited, Han Yan's new work "Journey to the West: The Monkey King", originally called "Dare to Ask Where is the Way", Liu Xiaolingtong and Ma Dehua will use motion capture actors The identity re-enacts "Monkey King" and "Pig Bajie". The production companies of the film are Ruyi Pictures and Dragon Fruit Pictures, and the producer is Chen Jixi, the partner of Han Yan's "Animal World".
and this may be an important step in the "Six Languages and Six Languages" "Dare to Ask Where is the Way" that went viral on the Internet last year.
As early as 2008, the sixth-year-old Zhang Jinlai was preparing the movie version of "Journey to the West" and intentionally invited Zhang Yimou to direct it. After the 3D version of the TV series "Wu Chengen and Journey to the West" in 2009, the 3D version of "Journey to the West" movie Also began preparations, and in 2012 began to contact with James Cameron, Spielberg and other Hollywood directors.
In April 2015, "Dare to Ask Where is the Way" officially launched in cooperation with Paramount Pictures. However, in the four years from 2015 to 2019, this project still did not have any substantial progress. Among them, the 2017 system Filmmaker Ke Liming also participated in this project and announced that it would change to a trilogy, which will be released in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Like "Dare to Ask Where is the Way", there is also "Cai Fan", which was filmed in November 2016. The film, which has been fixed for many times, has not yet received a chance to be released.
Finally, the joining of Han Yan and Chen Zhixi makes this film finally full of certainty, and it is reported that the film will also be released by Lianrui Pictures. If it can be successfully launched early next year, it may be able to catch up with the Spring Festival of 2021. files.
last summer, although Han Yan's "Animal World" performed well in word-of-mouth, but the final box office score of 510 million was not profitable compared to the higher production costs. Even so, "Animal World 2" was still officially announced in July last year, but one and a half years later, there is still no movement in this work. The establishment of "Journey to the West" may also mean that "Animal World 2" will not meet with the audience in the short term.
