FilmSharks Boards Chinese language Animation ‘A Hero’s Journey To The West’

EXCLUSIVE: Buenos Aires-based gross sales FilmSharks has taken worldwide gross sales rights to the Chinese language animated movie A Hero’s Journey to the West.

Made with a finances of $26M, the movie is directed by Phil Nibbelink (The Fox and the Hound) and written by James Felder (Final Spider-Man). A Hero’s Journey to the West may have its world premiere on Might 18 on the movie market in the course of the upcoming Cannes Movie Competition.

Endeavor Content material was reported to have picked up worldwide gross sales rights to the movie in 2019, however Deadline understands that financing and manufacturing of the movie fell by in the course of the pandemic. The challenge was revived after the specter of Covid-19 subsided and rebranded as A Hero’s Journey to the West.

A Hero’s Journey to the West is about to be the primary instalment of a trilogy telling the story of Solar Wu Kong (often known as the “Monkey King”), one of the vital well-known characters from the Sixteenth-century Chinese language novel Journey to the West.

The primary instalment will deal with Solar Wu Kong’s discovery of his extraordinary destiny from start in addition to his battle with the gods. The second instalment will observe Wu Kong’s rise as he meets different heroes. They work collectively to retrieve a group of historical scrolls. Within the third movie, the heroes will resolve their variations as they full their journey to the west.

The rights deal was negotiated between FilmSharks CEO and founder Guido Rud in addition to producers Jon Chiew and Pham Thi Tam of Dongky King Photos. Chiew produced Chinese language comedies Howdy Mr. Billionaire (2018) and Too Cool to Kill (2022).

“We’re happy to shut a cope with FilmSharks as we really feel that they’re the suitable accomplice to convey a theatrical big-budget animation to the worldwide area,” Chiew mentioned. “We now have excessive expectations for our movie to be welcomed by world cinema distributors.”

Rud added: “The animation market has reached a really aggressive second as a result of improve in animation productions as we speak. Worldwide theatrical distributors are extra choosy than ever, solely selecting top-quality productions. A Hero’s Journey to the West has all the important thing inventive and manufacturing highlights to develop into a global field workplace hit.”