CATDOLL: "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" will be made into a live-action movie, and the screenwriter of "Monster Hunt" will be in charge of the script

The Monkey King: Hero is Back was released for 28 days and the box office was 810 million RMB. After creating a new milestone for Chinese animated films, the Monkey King has also become a popular IP. Recently, the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television announced the July (mid-month) national film script filing notice, and we actually found the filing information of the live-action movie of The Monkey King: Hero is Back! This means that The Monkey King: Hero is Back will be filmed as a live-action movie.

According to the national film script (synopsis) filing in mid-July, the producer of the live-action version of "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" is the same producer of the animated film "Journey to the West: Hero is Back" - Hengdian Film and Television Production Co., Ltd. The protagonists of the live-action version of "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" are still Sun Wukong and Jiang Liuer, but the story is different from the animated version: Sun Wukong makes a riot in the Heavenly Palace and is suppressed by the Buddha under the Five Elements Mountain. Five hundred years later, the young Jiang Liuer accidentally breaks the seal of the Five Elements Mountain and saves Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong makes a riot in the Heavenly Palace again. In the end, because Jiang Liuer is the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi, Sun Wukong puts aside his hatred and goes to the West with Jiang Liuer to obtain scriptures...

Moreover, not long ago, a high-level seminar was specially held for "The Monkey King: Hero is Back", which was attended by leaders and experts from the Central Propaganda Department, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and other central cultural institutions. Jing Junhai, deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department, said that it is necessary to change the positioning of cartoons for young children and use new technology to produce cartoons for multiple age groups or even all age groups. It seems that the Monkey King has injected a new booster into domestic animation.

However, netizens have different reactions to this news. Some think it is a "money-sucking scam" that may ruin the series; some think "the live-action version and the animated version are irrelevant, no matter what the real-life version does, I will only watch the animated version." Moreover, the screenwriter of the live-action movie is not the director of the animated version, Tian Xiaopeng, but Zhang Ting, the screenwriter of "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" and "Mulan". I wonder what everyone thinks after seeing this news? Welcome to discuss~

Event update at 16:00 on August 6, 2015:

Hu Mingyi, executive producer of The Monkey King: Hero is Back, posted an urgent Weibo post this afternoon (August 6): The live-action version was only launched to register and maintain the copyright of the film's IP title to prevent other companies from preempting it. Time will tell. It seems that the authorities don't want the good IP of The Monkey King to be overshadowed.