The New Chronicles: The Journey Begins

The New Chronicles: The Journey Begins is a 1999 El Kadsreian tokusatsu film written by Sung GIm, produced by BTV Films and distributed in the United States by USA Films and it was released in October 1999. It spawned a TV spin-off series The New Chronicles, which aired from 2000 to 2002 in El Kadsre on Banushen Television and in the US on.

Production
In 1996, after leaving El TV Kadsre, Darren Cody moved to Banushen Media Corporation. He wanted to take Sung Gim's script for the unfinished Technic Heroes film B11: Bionicle: The Next Generation Part 2 and retooled the script and characters and created the concept for The New Chronicles, and pitched it to BTV Films.

October Films purchased the U.S. distribution rights for $20 million, after a contract battle with Fox Searchlight Pictures, Miramax and R.A. Releasing.