In the opening stretch, the Monkey King (Jimmy O. Yang) hatches from a rock, glares his red laser eyes at the heavens, and declares that he’ll command the gods’ attention by defeating 100 ...

Adopted From the Classic Chinese Tale by Ji-li Jiang Illustrated by Hui Hui Su-Kennedy STORY SO FAR: Monkey, disguised as Lotus-Feet Immortal, tries to sneak into the Jade Emperor’s Peach Ban… ...

The Monkey King catapults us into a world where gods and demons reign supreme.However, one small monkey (voiced by Jimmy O. Yang) is about to upset the status quo in a big way. Hatched from a rock ...

The people called him sdaik swaa, the monkey king, or ta asay, the hermit, because he was very old and had a white pointed beard like the hermit in folk tales. He was different from the other gray ...

The 16th-century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” has been mined for countless movies and TV shows, including the international blockbuster hits “The Monkey King” and “The Monkey King ...

The powerful Monkey King figure in the novel met the believers' expectation for an almighty god and made the belief more popular," according to Gan Mantang, a sociology professor at Fuzhou University.

Come to find, “The Monkey King” is a decent-looking, standalone adaptation of the popular Chinese epic, in development at Pearl Studio (formerly Oriental DreamWorks) since at least 2015.

The film follows legendary Chinese mythological figure the Monkey King, or Sun Wukong, who was trapped in a mountain for 500 years before a young boy, Liuer, accidentally frees him. With ...

THE MONKEY KING features all-Asian voice talent of Jimmy O. Yang, Bowen Yang, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Jo Koy, Ron Yuan, Hoon Lee, Stephanie Hsu, Andrew Pang, Andrew Kishino, Jodi Long, James Sie ...

Based on a Stephen King short story, the film follows two boys who are given a toy monkey, which happens to be a harbinger of death. Film critic Sean Burns writes it's "a marathon of sicko gallows ...