Pearl Studio’s ‘All Wishes Come True!’ Trailer Turns The Eight Immortals Into A Heist Crew

China’s Pearl Studio and CMC Pictures have released the trailer for All Wishes Come True!, a sprawling animated fantasy comedy that reworks the Chinese legend The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea as a supernatural heist movie.

Written and directed by Mu Zhengyang, the film is set on an island where mortals and immortals live side by side, although not exactly as equals. Lü Dongbin and Zhongli Quan, two mortals with their eyes on a legendary vault, hatch a wildly dangerous plan: pose as immortals, assemble a crew, and rob the gods. The pair recruits six accomplices for the job: He Xiangu, Tieguai Li, Han Xiangzi, Cao Guojiu, Lan Caihe, and Zhang Guolao. Together, the eight aspiring thieves stumble into a much larger conspiracy that threatens to upset the balance between the mortal and divine worlds.

The trailer promises elaborate fantasy environments, broad character comedy, and plenty of big-scale action. The film’s action design was handled by Hong Kong Film Awards winner Su Hang (The Shadow’s Edge), while Ne Zha voice director Chen Hao oversaw the voice performances.

All Wishes Come True! comes from Pearl Studio, the Chinese animation company formerly known as Oriental DreamWorks. Launched in 2012 as a joint venture between DreamWorks Animation and several Chinese partners, the studio co-produced Kung Fu Panda 3 before CMC took full ownership and relaunched it under the Pearl name in 2018. Its subsequent credits include Abominable and Glen Keane’s Oscar-nominated Over the Moon.

The new film arrives as Chinese animation is enjoying an unprecedented international moment after Ne Zha 2’s $2.2 billion global haul and Nobody’s record-setting run for a 2D feature. Whether All Wishes Come True! can approach those levels remains to be seen, but Pearl and CMC are giving it an unusually broad day-and-date overseas push.

The 143-minute film opens in China on July 24. It will reach Australia and New Zealand on August 13, followed by the U.S., Canada, Britain, the Netherlands, and Ireland on August 14. It will screen in Mandarin with English subtitles.