The Monkey King[a] is a 2014 Hong Kong[1]–Chinese[3] action-fantasy film directed by Cheang Pou-soi and starring Donnie Yen as the titular protagonist Sun Wukong. Yen also serves as the film’s action director. Production began in Beijing on 18 October 2010[6] and was filmed in 3D.[7] The plot is based on an episode of Journey to the West, a 16th-century Chinese literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty by Wu Cheng’en. It was released on 31 January 2014.[8] A ..