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No. The Forbidden Kingdom is based on a script by screenwriter John Fusco and martial artist and principal actor Jet Li. However, the characters of Sun Wukong (The Monkey King) and Jason Tripitikas come from Journey to the West, a novel by Ming Dynasty novelist and poet Wu Cheng'en [C.1500-1582]. The white-haired witch Ni Chang is an established character from Ronny Yu's The Bride with the White Hair/Bai fa mo nu zhuan (1993) and is based on the 1958 novel of the same name (aka The White-haired Demoness) by Chinese writer Chen Wentong (pen name: Yusheng Liang).

That is explained in Yusheng Liang's (1958) novel The Bride with the White Hair aka The White-haired Demoness. Her hair turns white overnight after her spineless boyfriend Zhuo Yihang breaks her heart.

Yes. A Chinese Odyssey [Sai yau gei: Dai yat baak ling yat wui ji - Yut gwong bou haap] (1994) and A Chinese Odyssey 2 [Sai yau gei: Daai git guk ji - Sin leui kei yun] feature the Monkey King, both times played by Hong Kong actor and martial artist Stephen Chow. The character also shows up in the animated film Lotus Lantern [Bao lian deng] (1999), in which he is voiced by Chinese actor Peisi Chen, and in The Lost Empire (2001).