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Neil Gaiman Journeys East to Pen 'Monkey King' Movies in China

5:22 AM PST 3/10/2011 by Jonathan Landreth

The "Sandman" and "Coraline" scribe signs with producer Zhang Jizhong.

BEIJING – Neil Gaiman, the award-winning writer of The Sandman comics and the novella Coraline, has signed on to pen English scripts for a big-budget series of 3D feature films based on Journey to the West, China’s classic novel about the adventures of the Monkey King.

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