{"id":505302,"date":"2026-06-22T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505302\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:08:08","slug":"utopai-huace-team-on-fully-ai-generated-series-journey-to-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505302\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopai &#038; Huace Team On Fully AI-Generated Series &#8216;Journey To The West&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/utopai-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_utopai-studios\" data-tag=\"utopai-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utopai Studios<\/a> and Chinese producer-distributor Huace Film &amp; TV are co-producing fully\u00a0AI-generated animated series,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/journey-to-the-west\/\" id=\"auto-tag_journey-to-the-west\" data-tag=\"journey-to-the-west\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Journey to the West<\/a>: The Lost Five Hundred Years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUsing Utopai\u2019s AI\u00a0system PAI, the series is designed as the opening chapter in a planned theatrical franchise inspired by one of China\u2019s most influential literary and mythological classics.<\/p>\n<p>The new series \u201creimagines the untold origin of why Sun Wukong, the Monkey King \u2014 a rebellious trickster, warrior, and immortal force of nature imprisoned beneath a mountain for five hundred years \u2014 would ultimately become the protector of a monk he had never met before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, Huace will produce the animated series using PAI, while Utopai Studios will hold all distribution rights to the property outside China. The first season is planned as an animated series for distribution across broadcast, streaming, and digital platforms, with the broader franchise developed for future theatrical expansion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe project marks the first new series to move forward under the strategic partnership previously announced by Utopai and Huace, under which Huace selected PAI as its engine for long-form narrative creation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cJourney to the West is not only one of China\u2019s most beloved cultural treasures \u2014 it is one of the great mythological universes in world entertainment,\u201d said Cecilia Shen, Co-Founder and CEO of Utopai Studios. \u201cWith Huace, we have the opportunity to build a bold new interpretation of this story, beginning with the untold emotional origin of Sun Wukong and the companions who would one day change the course of the journey west. This is exactly why we built Utopai Studios: to help partners unlock iconic IP, expand worlds at franchise scale and bring ambitious stories to life in ways that were not possible before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJourney to the West\u00a0is a story Chinese audiences have lived with for generations, and it deserves to be reintroduced with scale, emotion and imagination,\u201d added Binxing Fu, CEO of Huace Group. \u201cBy partnering with Utopai Studios, we can bring this mythology into a fully\u00a0AI-generated animated format while preserving the cultural depth, emotional power and sense of wonder that have made the story endure for hundreds of years. This partnership also gives us a path to build the property across animated series and theatrical opportunities for audiences around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Utopai Studios and Chinese producer-distributor Huace Film &amp; TV are co-producing fully\u00a0AI-generated animated series,\u00a0Journey to the West:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,232285,85,46,232286,211489],"class_list":["post-505302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-huace-pictures","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-journey-to-the-west","tag-utopai-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}