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I’ve got a fantastic new trailer to share with you today for the beautiful-looking Chinese animated film White Snake. The magical adventure movie is inspired by ancient Chinese lore known as The Legend of the White Snake. It tells the love story of a hunter and a mythical snake disguised as a human hunter.

The movie comes from Amp Wong (animation lead on Green Lantern: The Animated Series) and Ji Zhao (assistant editor on The Grandmaster). This is their first time directing a feature film. The movie presents a "sumptuous tale of trickster demons, deadly mythical beasts, assassins, wuxia action, and the promise of eternal love."

Here’s the official synopsis:

From Light Chaser Animation, one of China’s premiere animation studios, comes a visually stunning new take on a classic legend. One day a young woman named Blanca is saved by Xuan, a snake catcher from a nearby village.

"Now that she's a monster, do you still like her?" GKids has debuted an official Us trailer for the animated film White Snake, already a big hit in China after it opened over there in January earlier this year. The historical fantasy film tells of a love story between a snake spirit and a snake hunter. Conceived as a prequel to one of the most ancient and enduring stories in Chinese history, Wong & Zhao's White Snake presents a "sumptuous tale of trickster demons, deadly mythical beasts, assassins, wuxia action, and the promise of eternal love." Featuring the voices of Zhang Zhe, Yang Tianxiang, Yang Xiaoxi, and Liu Wei. It will be released in Mandarin with English subtitles, as well as with an English dub for those interested. The designs in this are incredible, I just don't know if there's much beyond that as it seems a bit cheesy. Worth a watch.

Filmmakers Amp Wong, Ji Zhao (directors), and Damao (screenwriter) have taken the Chinese fable Legend of the White Snake and reformatted it into a prequel/remake with sequel possibilities (if a mid-credits sequence is any indication). The concept of reincarnation keeps the characters the same despite letting them meet five hundred years in the past. That’s how long snake spirit Blanca (Zhang Zhe’s Xiao Bai) has practiced Taoist magic while waiting to achieve Immortal status alongside her sister Verta (Xiaoxi Tang’s Ziao Qing). Rather than be five centuries since her creation, however, this wait begins after a test of her moral fiber upon being tasked by her Master (Wei Liu) to assassinate an evil General (Yaohan Zhang’s Guo Shi) maliciously siphoning the vitality from snakes to augment his dark arts power.

She doesn’t remember this at the opening of White Snake, though. Instead she’s...