Mumbai: Zee Action – action movies channel is all set to bring this entertaining powerhouse to the television screen on Saturday, 21st July 2018 at 8pm. Five hundred years after the Havoc in Heaven, the Tang Priest is appointed by Buddha to go to the West to fetch the sacred scriptures, only to accidentally free the Monkey King. With Lady White aiming to break up the team assembled to defeat her, the Monkey King must fight in order to save his world. The film has been praised for its production design and amazing picturisation which has broken all previously set benchmarks.
Freed after 500 years beneath Five Element Mountain, Goddess Guanyin (Kelly Chen) entrusts Sun Wukong’s (Aaron Kwok) with a task of shepherding young monk Xuanzang (William Feng) on his journey west to retrieve ancient spiritual sutras that will pacify the Earth. They are joined by a pair of similarly disciplined creatures: the water-dwelling Wujing (Him Law) and the gluttonous half-man, half-pig Baije (Xiaoshenyang). When the party arrives at a wealthy Silk Road kingdom, they hear stories of a malevolent demon,who has been kidnapping and eating children. The pure-spirited Xuanzang is then himself targeted by the seductive yet deadly White Bone Spirit, Baigujing (Gong Li), who feeds on the innocent to retain her own youthful beauty.
