Ok, so even crappy IPs like L.o.R.D. got trilogy movies made. Too bad about Kris Wu, I dont think they ever gonna release part 3 of that.
Anyways, Soul Land is such a superior IP consistently ranking very high on Douban in every season of the donghua. It only makes sense for Tencent to develop a cinema trilogy out of it to wash away the very bad taste left from the live action drama adaptation.
Im thinking the movies should be live action coz Tencent already did the CGI donghua series to perfection. Movies like Wolf Warrior 2 only cost $30 millions to make. Tencent has plenty of CGI/SFX artists from their studios to pull together for a side project to save costs. Plus Tencent is a very rich company with lots of $$$ to spare. They blew away $90 millions on the now defunct Golden Hairpin. Imagine if all that money was spent on Soul Land IP ($30millions per movie in the trilogy), how many more smilin faces would Tencent welcome into their ecosystem (games movies dramas etc.)
It's only a smart thing to fully exploit an excellent IP such as this...
