White Snake to slither into cinemas

Co-directed by Huang Jiakang and Zhao Ji, the animated film White Snake - a Sino-US coproduction - is set for release on Dec 21.

White Snake is based on a popular Chinese folk tale, in which a white snake longing for a human existence turns into a woman and marries a scholar named Xu Xian.

According to Zhao, the story in the new animation takes place before the white snake meets Xu at the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.