The forest scenes were shot at the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in northern Hunan Province It was like a toy shop, so exciting." Hui and his team decided to make the monsters in the film look more friendly, humanlike and anthropomorphic-in contrary to typical monsters being vicious and scary-because they wanted them to carry emotions and get attached with the audience and the audience to liken the monsters. For this movie, you could touch the fabric. Before that, all the Shrek costumes were inside a computer. I still recall I was so excited to see a costume being made. On the experience of working in a live-action film Hui said, "It was all new to me. Upon arriving in China in early 2013, he began assembling his crew, even as he continued to do consulting work for DreamWorks Animation. īefore Hui went to China, DreamWorks Animation sent him to India for 2 years. That gave the team confidence to move ahead. Finally, Hui and Yuen went to a Beijing-based visual effects house, Base FX, and made a four-minute test film in 2012. Kong took the first draft of the script to many friends in the film industry and all of the feedback was that it had potential but it would be too tough to make since the film would need visual effects because of its depiction of monsters.
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Although Hui admits that there wasn't any particular film he drew inspiration from for the film, he stated that Monster Hunt is partly influenced by various DreamWorks animated movies, Hollywood movies such as Men in Black, Jurassic Park, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Lord of the Rings film series and Indiana Jones franchise, Hong Kong films like CJ7 and Drunken Master II, works of Steven Spielberg and James Cameron and visual references at once recalling ancient Chinese landscape painting, a 1970s breakfast cereal called Freakies, and the Oddball Art of Mark Ryden. I kind of based the monsters on the descriptions in that book." Hui said. "It's a weird book from old China, a bit like Nat Geo with descriptions of monsters living in the mountains. The three took inspiration from an old Chinese book " Classic of Mountains and Seas" ( Shan Hai Jing). The film is partly influenced by Hollywood movies such as Men in Black, Jurassic Park, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, Steven Spielberg and Ang Lee, respectively. Alan finished the script alone by the summer of 2009 taking vague inspiration from monsters mentioned in classical Chinese literature, but with an original story. They started looking for comic books or other intellectual property to adapt, but to no avail. Hui, who hadn't done any live-action movies simply said, "Sure, I'll give it a try." Kong introduced Hui to Hong Kong writer Alan Yuen to see what they could come up with. But about three years later in 2008, Kong, while visiting Hollywood, invited Hui out for drinks on Sunset Boulevard and asked him if he could make a live-action film with computer graphics for him.
The two, who had known each other for 20 years, met as Kong used to distribute movies for DreamWorks Animation in China. But Kong who had no experience with animated film turned the proposal down.
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The idea for the film began in 2005 when Hui-who was living in Hollywood at that time-approached producer Bill Kong on the possibility of making an animated movie in China. In an interview with the South China Morning Post he said that while overseeing sequences for the Gingerbread Man character in Shrek, he daydreamed about animating a character from a Hong Kong bakery, a Pineapple Bun Man. Hui had long wanted to produce a movie in China. Raman Hui directed film which is his first live action directorial debut The message in the film is to understand and accept differences, to see the world through others' perspective and to foster more understanding between people and groups. The main theme in Monster Hunt, according to Hui is acceptance (similar to the Shrek series which Hui was involved in). The story begins with Song Tianyin, an unnerved young village mayor who becomes pregnant with the Monster Queen's baby, and he encounters an aspiring Monster-hunter named Huo Xiaolan, and they both embark on an adventure to protect the baby from villains of the Human and Monster worlds alike. Recently, a civil war took place in the Monster Realm which resulted in the usurpation of the Monster King's throne from a treacherous minister, who later sought the Monster Queen and her unborn baby, and the Monster Queen fled to the Human Realm. They once shared the world in peace and harmony until the Humans drove the Monsters out from their home, for they sought total dominion over their lands. The film takes place in ancient China, where the Humans existed alongside the Monsters.
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