The Monkey King is a 2014 Hong Kong-Chinese fantasy film directed by Cheang Pou-soi and starring Donnie Yen mainly because titular protagonist. Yen also serves given that film's action director. Production began inside of Beijing on 18 October 2010 and additionally was filmed in 3D. The display is based on an episode concerning Journey to the West, a The chinese language literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty by Wu Cheng'en. It was published on 31 January 2014. A follow up titled The Monkey King 2 premiered in February 2016.
