This Aint Your Mother's MONKEY KING. Chow Yun Fat And Aaron Kwok Join Donnie Yen In Soi Cheang's 3D Blockbuster.

Aaron Kwok is going to need to bulk up to carry that sword.

Up above you've got the first concept art of how Kwok will look as the Ox King in Soi Cheang's upcoming big budget, 3D update of the classic literary epic Journey To The West. Titled simply as The Monkey King, it has long been known that Donnie Yen was taking the title role but the addition of Kwok, Peter Ho, Chen Qiao En and Chow Yun Fat - as the Jade Emperor - has just been confirmed.

Now, concept art should always be taken with a grain of salt - it's one thing to draw something, another thing entirely to put it on film - but they're clearly aiming big and burly with this one, going for a full on spectacle. I can only hope that in the quest to make the visuals big they don't bite off more of the sprawling tale than they can actually fit comfortably into the film.
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