‘Brightburn’ Producer To Adapt China’s ‘Classic Of Mountains & Seas’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Brightburn producer The H Collective is to adapt the traditional Chinese language ebook of myths and legends The Traditional of Mountains and Seas right into a characteristic, with a view to creating a movie and TV universe impressed by the textual content.

Kent Huang, Chairman of the corporate, and Mark Rau, European Chief, will supervise the manufacturing, which can comply with a gaggle of youngsters who unintentionally fall right into a parallel world encountering unique creatures and other people. On their journey to search out their method again, they are going to be taught the significance of friendship.

The Traditional of Mountains and Seas, also referred to as Shan Hai Jing, is essentially a wonderful geographical and cultural account of pre-Qin China in addition to a group of Chinese language mythology. The ebook recorded greater than 40 international locations, 550 mountains and 300 waterways together with the geographic and cultural data of the close by realms. A few of the creatures from the work appeared in Warner Bros’ fantasy film franchise Unbelievable Beasts.

THC just lately partnered with NFT (non-fungible token) platform the MOVE Community and can look to create NFT merchandise utilizing movie stills, scripts, posters, and collectible artworks primarily based on The Traditional of Mountains and Seas. The 2 corporations additionally say they want to construct a ticketing system with NFT “to safe the field workplace, offering an alternate method for traders to recoup at an early stage”.

The H Collective’s European Chief. Mark Rau mentioned: “We sit up for creating The Traditional of Mountains and Seas and dealing with MOVE Community to pursue the larger worth of blockchain know-how collectively by incorporating them into the leisure panorama. New applied sciences are bringing new alternatives. So we’re very wanting ahead to being a part of the altering strategy of financing and creating Mental-Properties. By the superb new partnership with MOVE Community, we at the moment are capable of roll out globally NFTs primarily based on our profitable Leisure IPs.”

Chinese language and American-backed THC is at present in improvement on Uli Edel’s Shadow Track, which relies on the 2017 quick, A Youngsters’s Track, which the corporate additionally produced; in addition to The Winery, a coming-of-age movie penned by Tory Kamen which Mark Steven Johnson will direct.

MOVE Community is a part of bigger tech group, Aladdin Expertise Holdings, which specialises in blockchain, fintech platforms and rising platform know-how. Aladdin has its HQ in Hong Kong and has presences in Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, London, San Francisco and Toronto.