"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.
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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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