Monk's love story core of new Monkey King movie

A chapter in the 16th-century Chinese classic, Journey to the West, depicts an exotic kingdom inhabited only by women.

Such a fictional wonderland will now come alive on the big screen, thanks to The Monkey King 3, the third movie in a scheduled series of seven.

Filming for the latest installment will start in November, its director Cheang Pou-soi announced in Beijing on Tuesday.