Yang Jian in the movie starts a new journey
The legend goes that there was a Battle of the Gods . Yang Jian became a god because he fought hard during the battle.
But 1,500 years later, things are different. The Heavenly Court goes downhill. Yang has to make a living as a bounty hunter .One day, Yang gets a bounty to catch a young man but finds out the young man is his nephew , Liu Chenxiang. Liu wants to save his mother by splitting a mountain. But this will cause chaos . What will Yang do? Will he help Liu?
This is the story told in the animation movie, Xin Shen Bang: Yang Jian. It came out in Chinese mainland theaters on Aug 19.
Besides the exciting story, people also like the movie’s visuals very much.� The movie uses an ink-wash painting style in some parts. In others, it shows Heaven as a sci-fi style city with high buildings and spaceships .
“The movie really creates an amazing world,” wrote the time website.
cinematic universe
The Investiture of the Gods , a book from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), tells of the creation of the Chinese Gods. Some people become gods after a big battle. Yang Jian is one of them.
Many other roles from the book showed up in movies before. Some of them are Ne Zha in New Gods: Nezha Reborn
and Ne Zha , as well as Jiang Ziya in Legend of Deification. Altogether, these characters make up the Fengshen Cinematic Universe.
This is like the Marvel Cinematic Universe . But in this universe, Chinese gods are the superheroes . In the future , we might see movies about the famous nine-tailed fox.