China’s first big-budget homegrown sci-fi blockbuster, The Wandering Earth, has received a positive reception from critics and audiences both in China and abroad since its worldwide debut in markets including North America, Australia and New Zealand on February 5, 2019.
China’s first big-budget homegrown sci-fi blockbuster, The Wandering Earth, has received a positive reception from critics and audiences both in China and abroad since its worldwide debut in markets including North America, Australia and New Zealand on February 5, 2019. Adapted from a sci-fi novella by Liu Cixin, author of the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem, the futuristic feature film in both normal and 3D-IMAX formats is an apocalyptic tale of saving the Earth from an expanding sun by using giant thrusters to move it and its remaining 3.5 billion residents. Director Guo Fan used 3,000 design drawings, 8,000 shooting scripts, 10,000 props, 100,000-square-meters of sets, and over 7,000 staff in its making. It became an enormous surprise hit during the Spring Festival and critics consider it as the start of a new era for China’s movie industry.
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