![]() ![]() Jason goes to the Warlord's palace alone to exchange the staff for the elixir.īecause the Warlord can only give the elixir to one of them, he orders Jason to duel Ni Chang - the winner will receive the elixir. Jason's team escapes and takes refuge in a monastery, where they learn that Lu is not an immortal as he claimed to be, and only the Warlord's elixir can save his life. Ni Chang shoots an arrow which mortally wounds Lu. Ni Chang offers to return Jason home in exchange for the staff. ![]() After crossing a desert, they encounter Ni Chang. As the four travel to Five Elements Mountain, Lu and the Monk teach Jason kung fu along the way. Tripitikas, Lu and Sparrow meet the Silent Monk who joins them in their quest to free the King. Meanwhile, the Warlord, upon learning about the staff, sends the witch Ni-Chang to help him retrieve it in exchange for the elixir of immortality. Just then, they are attacked by the Warlord's men again, but manage to escape with the help of Golden Sparrow, a young woman whose family was murdered by the Warlord. Lu ends the tale with a prophecy about a "Seeker" who will find the staff and free the King. The Warlord tricked the King into setting aside his magic staff, Ruyi Jingu Bang, and transformed the immortal into a stone statue, but the King cast his staff far away before the transformation. Lu tells him the story of the rivalry between the Monkey King and the Jade Warlord. He is saved by the inebriated traveling scholar Lu Yan, a supposed "immortal," who remains alert and agile even when drunk. When Jason regains consciousness, he finds himself in a village in ancient China under attack by soldiers. He is cornered on the rooftop before being pulled off the roof by the staff. Hop tells Jason to deliver the staff to its rightful owner and Jason flees with the staff. On his way home, Jason is harassed by some hooligans, whose leader Lupo attempts to use him to help them rob the shop-owner Hop, who is shot by Lupo. He visits a pawn shop in Chinatown to buy wuxia DVDs and discovers a golden staff. He dreams of a battle between Sun Wukong and celestial soldiers in the clouds. South Boston teenager Jason Tripitikas is a fan of martial arts films. The Forbidden Kingdom grossed $128 million against a budget of $55 million. Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus praises the fight scenes but says the film has too much filler. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the US and Hong Kong on Septemand the United Kingdom on November 17, 2008. The film is distributed in the United States through Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company, and through The Huayi Brothers Film & Taihe Investment Company in China. The action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping. Loosely based on the 16th-century novel Journey to the West, it is the first film to star Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The Forbidden Kingdom ( Chinese: 功夫之王: Gong Fu Zhi Wang ( Mandarin) or Gung Fu Ji Wong ( Cantonese) and translated King of Kung Fu ( English) Working title: The J & J Project ) is a 2008 wuxia film written by John Fusco, and directed by Rob Minkoff, and starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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