Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Wandering Earth (Chinese: 流浪地球; pinyin: liúlàng dìqiú) is a 2019 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo, loosely based on the 2000 short story of the same name by Liu Cixin. The film stars Wu Jing, Qu Chuxiao, Li Guangjie, Ng Man-tat, Zhao Jinmai and Qu Jingjing.
The Wandering Earth is a science fiction novella by Chinese writer Cixin Liu.The novella focuses on humanity's efforts to move the Earth in order to avoid a supernova.It was first published in 2000 by Beijing Guomi and won the 2000 China Galaxy Science Fiction Award of the Year.
The Wandering Earth is a collection of ten science-fiction short stories by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, published by Head of Zeus in 2016 and Tor Books in 2017. [1] [2] It includes the eponymous novella The Wandering Earth, which was adapted in the movie The Wandering Earth in 2019 and expanded with the prequel The Wandering Earth 2 in 2023.
The Wandering Earth 2 (Chinese: 流浪地球2) is a 2023 Chinese science fiction action-adventure film directed and co-written by Frant Gwo, and starring Andy Lau, Wu Jing and Li Xuejian. The film is a prequel to the 2019 film The Wandering Earth , which is based on the short story of the same name by Liu Cixin , who serves as the film's producer.
A sequel to The Wandering Earth was announced in 2019 following the film's success. Gwo is still the director of The Wandering Earth 2, and the film was first released in China globally on 22 January 2023, the New Year's Day of the Chinese New Year (the Year of the Rabbit). [6]
These are the highest-grossing, primarily non- English language films in the world. Chinese is the most frequent language with 39 films in the top-50 highest grossing non-English films, while Japanese is the second most frequent language with 6 films in top-50 and India comes at third. Film and language In terms of gross revenue, English-language films are vastly over-represented among the ...
After the events of "Taking Care of God", the first spaceship of the other humans has arrived above Earth as the vanguard of an entire fleet.Since then, the ultra-rich upper class has behaved strangely: the assassin Smoothbore is first paid by them to murder as many homeless people as possible before they change their minds and offer them huge sums of money instead.
In 2012, China Film Group bought the rights to three of Liu Cixin's best-known science fiction stories, The Wandering Earth, Supernova Era and The Micro-Age. [2] The plan to turn The Wandering Earth into a film was first announced at China Film Group's 2014 film project promotion conference. [3]