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Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to st... Read all Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death. Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.

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Time runs out in carefully marked units in the mainland Chinese sci-fi disaster pic “The Wandering Earth II,” a sturdy prequel to the record-smashing adaptation of Liu Cixin ’s novel. In “The Wandering Earth II,” the apocalyptic problems faced by this movie’s Chinese characters—along with their international peers from the United Earth Government (UEG)—have already happened. Because in “ The Wandering Earth ,” the planet has already left its orbit thanks to some high-powered rocket engines, which have pushed the Earth out of harm’s way (aka a crash course with the Sun). Set in the near-future—a range of dates that includes 2044, 2058, and 2065—“The Wandering Earth II” follows China’s men and women of action as they lead the planet out of the solar system and into the previous movie.

Both “The Wandering Earth” and its sequel are flashy, state-approved cornball spectacles about humanity’s resilience (especially the Chinese). Both movies were produced with gargantuan budgets that would make even James Cameron blink, and they both look fantastic thanks to director Frant Gwo ’s eye for panoramic scope and paperback cover-worthy details. The main difference between these two blockbusters is that the protagonists of “The Wandering Earth II” must repeatedly choose to be hopeful despite perpetually impending disasters, each one of which is neatly labeled and foregrounded with pulpy on-screen text like “The Lunar Crisis in 12 hours” and “Nuclear explosion in 3 hours.”

In this way, Gwo (“ The Sacrifice ”) and his five credited co-writers succeed in refocusing our attention on scenes of ticking-clock suspense, sandwiched between syrupy—and mostly satisfying—melodramatic interludes, where square-jawed astronauts and UEG diplomats struggle to do what we know is a foregone conclusion.

Most of “The Wandering Earth II” follows the superhuman efforts needed to jumpstart the Moving Mountain Project, the mission to first build and then deploy the globe-shifting engines needed to push the Earth out of harm’s way. The UEG’s Chinese delegation, led by the paternal diplomat Zhezhi Zhou ( Li Xuejian ), recommends prioritizing the Moving Mountain Project instead of the Digital Life Project. This radical initiative would transfer human participants’ consciousnesses into artificially intelligent computer programs. Some Digital Life supporters try to sabotage the Moving Mountain Project, including a deadly attack on the Space Elevator transportation ships that send UEG representatives from the Earth to the Moon.

Nobody living through the events of “The Wandering Earth II” knows what we know: That the Moving Mountain project succeeds and eventually becomes the Wandering Earth project, which comes under threat by a HAL 9000-esque artificial intelligence (A.I.) named MOSS in the first film. Still, multiple scientists, government officials, and space adventurers—mostly Chinese—believe in their work’s vital necessity, whether they’re punching out saboteurs or detonating one of a couple hundred nuclear devices scattered around the moon. There’s a lot of hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing along the way, mostly from English and Russian-speaking UEG members, all of whom speak in stilted, poorly dubbed dialogue. But Chinese astronauts, like “The Wandering Earth” co-leads Liu Peiqiang (“ Wolf Warrior 2 ” star Wu Jing ) and Han Duoduo ( Wang Zhi ), always prove Zhou’s slogan-simple maxim: “In times of crisis, unity above all.”

Some melancholic (and occasionally maudlin) flashbacks and dialogue emphasize the personal motives of one-note characters who, in the movie’s best scenes, are just parts of a beautiful post-human landscape. Liu remembers his wife and young daughter while melancholic scientist Tu Hengyu ( Andy Lau ) talks with his dead child after he uploads her personality into an experimental A.I. program; she cries a lot and sometimes responds with existentially troubling questions like, “Where am I, daddy? I want to get out.” We’re then periodically reminded of the next impending crisis—“the moon disintegrates in 50 hours”—in between solar storms and nuclear explosions. Somehow, “The Wandering Earth II” never feels tonally unbalanced or narratively convoluted, partly because Gwo and his collaborators keep their movie’s plot focused on feats of action-adventure heroism.

“The Wandering Earth II” only seems relatively unambitious because it’s more focused on sap-happy human emotions than on dystopian intrigue. Both movies are still essentially showcases for beautiful and expensive-looking computer graphics. But “The Wandering Earth II”—a brittle and, at heart, old-fashioned space opera—would be insufferable if Gwo and his ensemble cast members didn’t sell you on the possibility that someday, people who are as selfless, monomaniacal, and capable as Liu and Tu could exist.

“The Wandering Earth II” is also like “The Wandering Earth” because it’s just the right mix of silly and somber. Hurt, scared people wonder about the recent past, but always from a rare position of forward-thinking emotional clarity. (“She’s dead, and that’s it. That’s the reality.”) So when humanity must inevitably save the day, their accomplishments are appropriately surreal and awesome. 

In theaters Sunday, January 22.

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Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in  The New York Times ,  Vanity Fair ,  The Village Voice,  and elsewhere.

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Review: Chinese Sci-fi Prequel “The Wandering Earth II” Offers Epicness Amidst Subdued Times

Starring Wu Jing and Andy Lau, "The Wandering Earth II" channels its predecessors’s sense of ambition—perhaps too much for its own good, given shifts in China’s sociopolitical climate.

By Anthony Kao , 22 Jan 23 02:00 GMT

When The Wandering Earth came out in 2019, another Cinema Escapist reviewer deemed it a “breathtaking sci-fi success. ” Based on a short story by renowned author Liu Cixin (best known for his Three Body Problem trilogy), the big-budget movie signaled China’s arrival as a major player in the global sci-fi blockbuster arena.

Four years later, director Frant Gwo returns with a prequel, The Wandering Earth II . Starring Wu Jing and Andy Lau, the film feels just as—and perhaps even more—epic than its predecessor, with sweeping sci-fi set pieces and ample CGI. However, The Wandering Earth II ’s grandiosity feels somewhat overwrought, especially given China’s sociopolitical mood is much more subdued in 2023 compared to 2019.

Moving Mountains for a Wandering Earth

The Wandering Earth II spans three decades (from the 2040s to 2060s) and dives into the backstory of how humanity ended up building a bunch of nuclear fusion engines to push Earth away from a soon-to-explode sun, as seen in the first Wandering Earth . It turns out that, as an alternative to moving Earth away from the solar system with the “Moving Mountain Project,” others proposed preserving human consciousness on computers through the “Digital Life Project.”

The movie contains three character subplots that convey the struggle between those two philosophies, though the Moving Mountain Project always enjoys clear supremacy. First and foremost, actor Wu Jing (famous for his roles in the nationalistic Wolf Warrior franchise) reprises his role as astronaut Liu Peiqiang—who was the primary protagonist of the first Wandering Earth , and somehow never ages in the five decades that elapse as he advances the Moving Mountain Project across two movies. Next, Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau plays a grief-stricken scientist who secretly embraces the Digital Life Project, as a way to keep his young daughter alive. Finally, Li Xuejian plays China’s understated but firm representative to the United Earth Government (which succeeded the UN), who must corral international alignment around the Moving Mountain Project amidst sabotage efforts and naysayers.

Epic Movie, Epic China?

On top of this ambitious narrative scope, The Wandering Earth II contains all the drone swarm battles, space elevators, and nuclear explosions necessary to satisfy the cravings of action-hungry audiences. What’s more interesting though is how the movie doubles down on a particular image of Chinese-led geopolitical order, in a manner that feels even sharper than what the first Wandering Earth established.

As with the first Wandering Earth , The Wandering Earth II features China at the helm of a broad international coalition implementing the Moving Mountain Project; these two movies probably recruited the most foreign actors of any productions in Chinese cinematic history. Reflecting China’s real-world engagement with Africa , a chunk of the prequel takes place at a space elevator base station in Libreville, Gabon. While Chinese astronauts, soldiers, scientists, and diplomats take the lead under all circumstances, they’re usually cheery and avuncular, as opposed to imperious. Characters from the Russian military complement the Chinese on multiple occasions, playing into stereotypes of Russians as a zhandou minzu (战斗民族) of soulful warfighters .

While the above elements are all present to some degree in the first Wandering Earth , one significant difference is The Wandering Earth II ’s depiction of the United States as a foil to China. Whereas the original Wandering Earth didn’t feature Americans at all, The Wandering Earth II shows Americans in discussions at the United Earth Government headquarters in New York City. Apparently 91% of Americans don’t believe in the Moving Mountain Project, and the movie paints American officials as belligerent, obstructionist, and petulantly absent from frontline affairs. It’s a view that accords with official Chinese attitudes towards the US, formed especially during the Donald Trump administration.

In general, The Wandering Earth II projects an ambitious image of China that the Communist Party would like audiences to believe exists. Benevolently paternalistic officials leverage advanced technology alongside courageous Wolf Warriors to make this version of China (and by extension the world) a better place. At the same time, in an echo of real-world gaming and tech industry crackdowns, those who engage in digital escapism must be tamed lest they threaten social stability.

2023 isn’t 2019

Alas, reality in China is more complicated than the Communist Party would prefer. In 2019, China indeed seemed like an ascendant responsible global leader, especially compared to a Trumpian United States wracked with isolationism and conspiracy-mongering. The first Wandering Earth fittingly echoed this state of affairs.

However, in 2023, China’s real-world sociopolitical position feels more subdued. With two years of zero-COVID, it’s China that has chosen global isolation , and suffered economically for it. China’s multilateral efforts through the Belt and Road Initiative have stalled , and the country’s famously assertive “ Wolf Warrior Diplomats ” are getting reined in as well. Disillusioned with life in China, educated young Chinese are embracing the “ run philosophy ” of emigrating abroad . Even those stereotypes of Russians as proficient warfighters are now in question , after Putin’s failure to conquer Ukraine.

With that in mind, the epic bombast of The Wandering Earth II starts feeling a bit tone-deaf, especially with the movie clocking in at an eye-numbing 2 hours and 53 minutes (40 minutes longer than its predecessor). The film feels like it’s stuck in a pre-COVID China, and fails to acknowledge what China has been through these past few years. Granted, not every movie needs to reflect political sentiment—but The Wandering Earth II bears a unique burden given its franchise’s established geopolitical significance .

Perhaps The Wandering Earth II should’ve taken a page from Top Gun: Maverick . Both movies convey their respective nations’ geopolitical fantasies, and strive for epic blockbuster appeal. However, Maverick acknowledges America’s malaise before laying it thick with Department of Defense-funded propaganda shots, and emerges a better movie as a result—call it character redemption as a national metaphor, if you will. Alas, showing a China that gets stronger after learning from its anxieties requires acknowledging the existence of anxieties, and doing that gets into a political minefield that The Wandering Earth II ’s filmmakers probably wanted to avoid.

That said, Chinese audiences will likely still flock to watch The Wandering Earth II given its star power, and the halo effect of being a sequel. More nationalistic types will probably embrace the movie as a way to reinvigorate patriotic sentiments. But don’t be surprised if The Wandering Earth II enjoys less buzz than its predecessor, especially among global viewers.

The Wandering Earth II (Chinese: 流浪地球2) —China. Dialog in Mandarin Chinese. Directed by Frant Gwo. First released January 22, 2023. Running time 2hr 53min. Starring Wu Jing, Andy Lau, Li Xuejian, Sha Yi, Ning Li.

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The Wandering Earth II review – blockbuster Chinese sci-fi prequel veers off course

Frant Gwo’s follow-up to his 2019 mega-hit favours special effects and set pieces over performances, as the human race battles for survival

A gargantuan success in 2019, Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth remains one of the highest grossing non-English films of all time. This hotly anticipated prequel, even more ambitious in scope, follows the catastrophic events leading up to the Earth leaving the solar system in the original hit.

At nearly three hours long, The Wandering Earth II is packed with expository science talk, which gets more convoluted and tiring as the clock ticks on. The gist of the matter is, in the face of imminent ecological disasters, an internationally consolidated government body has hatched a solution to alter the orbit of our planet. It also involves blowing up the moon. As well as resistance from (mostly) western countries, the decades-spanning enterprise is also routinely sabotaged by the rival Digital Life Project, which looks to virtual reality as a new beginning for the human race.

Against the threat of total extinction and the unsettling ubiquity of AI, the question of what it means to be human lies at the heart of this prequel, whose sombre silver-grey colour palette marks a stark departure from the first film. Ironically enough, in this case, characters played by superstars like Wu Jing or Andy Lau take a backseat to the admittedly spectacular CGI effects.

In the end, the emphasis on set pieces over performances renders the collective plight of humanity emotionally distant and impersonal. Various mentions of how machines will take over human jobs also finds a strange echo in the film-making itself: Ng Man-tat died from cancer in 2021, yet his character from The Wandering Earth makes a cameo appearance in this prequel via AI technology. It is a gesture of tribute that, within the context of the film, feels oddly unsettling.

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‘Wandering Earth 2’ Adds Andy Lau, Will Begin Production in the Fall After Being Approved by Censors

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Details are trickling out about the sequel to China ’s first true sci-fi blockbuster, director Guo Fan ’s “ The Wandering Earth .”

Registration records on the National Film Bureau’s website revealed this week that censors have approved “The Wandering Earth 2” for production. It plans to shoot in Qingdao and Haikou, the capital of the island province of Hainan, from October 2021 to March 2022.

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Although the rest of the cast remains a mystery, “Wandering Earth” star and financier Wu Jing is confirmed to appear again alongside an unexpected newcomer: Hong Kong megastar Andy Lau . Lau has made frequent appearances in the past year to bolster Communist Party messages , making him appear a strong and political unproblematic candidate to help anchor the film. Given that Wu’s character died in the first movie, however, fans are speculating about his potential role, with some wondering whether the sequel may in fact be a prequel.

The film bureau record offers a brief plot summary for “Wandering Earth 2” that sounds like it could easily describe the first film as well, unveiling few new details. It reads: “The sun is about to be destroyed, and humans have built huge engines on the earth’s surfaces to help them find a new home. However, the road out into the universe is perilous. In order to save the earth, a group of young people of the wandering earth era again stepped forward to begin a battle against life and death.”

Guo will return to direct from a script he co-wrote with Gong Geer, a producer on the first film. That title was a loose adaptation of a novella of the same name by Chinese sci-fi giant Liu Cixin , whose trilogy “The Three-Body Problem” is now being adapted in the U.S. for Netflix.

Guo first publicly announced that he was planning this sequel in the fall of 2019. “Wandering Earth 2” is currently targeting a Chinese New Year’s release on January 22, 2023, allowing it to debut at the crest of China’s biggest box office week of the year.

The film should have strong prospects, since the original was itself an unexpected 2019 New Year’s hit that went on to earn $691 million. It remains China’s fourth highest grossing film of all time.

Beijing Culture , the main backer of the first “Wandering Earth” film, is not listed on the sequel’s registration record as one of the firms that submitted the application for approval. The companies named are Guo’s own studio Guo Fan Culture and Media and China Film Company.

An earlier registration record shows that the sequel passed script approval, the first hurdle of Chinese censorship, on Feb. 3.

In a past interview with local media, Guo has said that the series will likely continue as long as the franchise isn’t loss-making.

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‘The Wandering Earth II’ Review: It Wanders Too Far

The audacious sequel to Frant Gwo’s 2019 sci-fi blockbuster follows survivors working to avert planetary disaster, but it loses much of the glee of its predecessor.

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Upon its release, “The Wandering Earth,” Frant Gwo’s 2019 film about a dystopia in which Earth is perilously pushed through space, was minted as China’s first substantial, domestic sci-fi blockbuster, with the box office returns to prove it.

The film was entertaining enough, but its ambitious scope had something of an empty gloss to it, partly because the story’s drama wasn’t grounded in anything beyond the showy cataclysm. Its audaciously messy sequel, “The Wandering Earth II,” seems to have taken note and sprinted, aimlessly, entirely in the other direction. Losing all of the glee of its predecessor, the movie instead offers nearly three hours of convoluted story lines, undercooked themes and a tangle of confused, glaringly state-approved political subtext.

Boasting a bigger budget and greater expectations — the Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau has been added to the cast — “Wandering Earth II” is, narratively, a prequel. Gwo’s follow-up takes place years before the events of the first film and focuses on the United Earth Government’s initial efforts to push Earth out of our solar system, a move intended to avoid planetary disaster. It sets up flimsy ideas about dystopian geopolitics, man versus machine, and the nature of human consciousness (partly as a back story to the “2001: A Space Odyssey”/evil HAL 9000 knockoff plot of the first film).

This is all just in the first hour of setup, before the film does a fast-forward to the next conflict, years later, when humankind needs to nuke the Moon. The premise might be laughable, but silly narrative ideas didn’t get in the way of a good time in the first film. It’s hard to say how much of a true cinematic achievement “The Wandering Earth” was when it gave China its very own “Armageddon ,” but after this sequel trips over its armful of melodramatic plotlines and conspicuously nationalist messaging, you’re left wishing you just savored the mindless fun the first time around.

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The Wandering Earth II review: Does it live up to the record-breaking first movie?

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In 2019, a Chinese sci-fi movie was released during the lucrative Lunar New Year period. Its premise: a team of astronauts and rescue workers have to move Earth away from an expanding Sun while preventing a collision with Jupiter.

Directed by Frant Gwo, The Wandering Earth II takes place several years before the events of the first movie. Global nations on Earth are working together to ensure the survival of mankind against the threat a rapidly expanding Sun destroying the planet.

However, mounting tensions pose a risk to the efforts to save humanity, further endangering Earth's future.

With governments clamouring for ways to save the planet, conflicts between different countries (China versus the rest of the world being an evident takeaway) quickly arise due to the time and energy invested in creating the Wandering Earth project.

But amid the politics, there are ongoing protests against its development. Some groups feel their efforts are more usefully put into the Digital Life project, which sees people live 'digitally' after they die.

With violence brewing in the background, people begin to act to support the Digital Life Project — to the point that they are willing to sabotage Earth's infrastructure and subsequently harm others (setting for an intense fight scene in fluctuating gravity levels).

However, this becomes ironic as society begins to increasingly depend on technology and its ever-growing evolution into AI to expedite the Wandering Earth project, which sci-fans will know is a bad move for mankind.

Despite this, The Wandering Earth II feels a lot more grounded than its predecessor — not because it is mostly set on Earth, but because there is a lot more context that supports both movies' fantastical premise. The movie draws heavily on the significance of family, which provides much of the drama.

With this in mind, this instalment follows the early career of trainee astronaut Liu Peiqiang (Wu Jing, reprising his role from The Wandering Earth ), who meets and falls in love with fellow trainee Han Duoduo (Wang Zhi). Despite his loyalty to his wife and young son, Liu is consistently drawn to saving Earth.

The other major character is scientist Tu Hengyu (Lau), who is obsessed with giving his late daughter Yaya a 'complete' digital life after she and her mother died in a car crash. However, his grief and guilt-ridden efforts immediately cause issues and inevitably wreak havoc on the Wandering Earth project, creating a new dilemma that establishes the final act as a ticking time bomb.

The Wandering Earth II does stumble in places due to its inconsistent dialogue and tone: Director Gwo notably raises the excitement in the first act, only for the adrenaline and intensity to dwindle to fully accommodate the events driven by Lau's character. With a decade's worth of narrative to accommodate, there is also a lot of plot to cover.

The movie places a lot of emphasis on the emotional conflict among its characters as they battle against extinction, so there is a lot of doom and gloom — either from the impending apocalypse, or the frequent brushes with death (which, unfortunately, casts aside most of the female characters).

This provides an abundance of moments that call for optimistic, albeit cheesy, speeches that wouldn't feel out of place in a Jerry Bruckheimer outing.

The Wandering Earth II 's biggest draw is easily its jaw-droppingly epic action scenes, with aerial fights and huge explosions amping up the excitement levels.

There is so much to visually enjoy when these scenes come to life that it reminds audiences why The Wandering Earth was a genre-defining sci-fi blockbuster — a trend that Gwo looks set to continue with this prequel.

At nearly three hours long, The Wandering Earth II can feel like a slog that plays too much on overly dramatic elements. But there is no denying its ambition and crowd-pleasing special effects, which cry out to be watched on the biggest screen possible.

The Wandering Earth II is out now in cinemas.

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March 3, 2023

by Carla Hay

“The Wandering Earth II”

Directed by Frant Gwo

Mandarin with subtitles

Culture Representation:  Taking place on Earth and in outer space, from 2044 to 2058, the sci-fi action film “The Wandering Earth II” (a prequel to 2019’s “The Wandering Earth,” features a cast of predominantly Asian characters (with some white people) representing the working-class and middle-class.

Culture Clash:  Scientists, engineers and other people frantically try to prevent the moon from crashing into Earth, and there are disagreements on the best way to do it. 

Culture Audience:  “The Wandering Earth II” will appeal primarily to people who are fans of the movie’s headliners, “The Wandering Earth,” and epic sci-fi disaster movies.

In the sci-fi action movie “The Wandering Earth II,” the novelty has worn off a little bit from the movie’s predecessor, 2019’s “The Wandering Earth.” After all, how many times can there be a “Wandering Earth” movie about another planet being on a collision course toward Earth? “The Wandering Earth II,” which is a prequel to “The Wandering Earth,” repeats this concept with generally entertaining but long-winded results: “The Wandering Earth II” is nearly three hours long.

Frant Gwo, who directed “The Wandering Earth,” returns to helm “The Wandering Earth II,” which he co-wrote with Gong Ge’er. “The Wandering Earth II” is an over-the-top sci-fi spectacle that doesn’t lose sight of the human stories in this saga about trying to avert an outer-space disaster. In other words, the movie delivers exactly what viewers can expect from “The Wandering Earth” franchise.

“The Wandering Earth II,” which takes place from 2044 to 2058, is about scientists, engineers and other people trying to prevent the moon from crashing into Earth. In “The Wandering Earth,” which takes place from 2058 to 2078, is about scientists, engineers and other people trying to prevent Jupiter from crashing into Earth.

All of this is happening because the sun is expanding and could destroy Earth in the 22nd century if Earth doesn’t get out of the way and move to a safer part of the universe. However, changing Earth’s location can cause problems if could cause other planets to crash into Earth. These problems are at the crux of “The Wandering Earth” movies, which are based on Liu Cixin’s 2000 short story of the same name.

It’s not necessary to see “The Wandering Earth” before seeing “The Wandering Earth II,” since “The Wandering Earth II” is a prequel. However, since “The Wandering Earth” before seeing “The Wandering Earth II” gives better context to some of the motivations of the characters.

In “The Wandering Earth II,” the United Nations has been renamed the United Earth Government (UEG) and is backing the Moving Mountain Project, which will use gigantic ion engines to move Earth out of the current solar system into a safer part of the universe. UEG has shut down a radical opposition group called Digital Life Project (DLP), which believes that the future of human survival is by making humans into digital form and uploading everything using the advance mind technology.

In China, a former DLP computer scientist named Tu Hengyu (played by Andy Lau) agrees to work on the Moving Mountain Project, but he secretly continues his research into the digital mind upload technology that he thinks is still the better way for humans to survive any interplanetary disaster. Hengyu has a personal reason for wanting to make humans immortal in digital form: His wife and daughter died in a car crash, when his daughter Yaya was about 4 or 5 years old. Hengyu keeps looking at a digital simulation of Yaya that can only lasts two minutes at a time. Hengyu wants the technology to be developed so that people can bring back and preserved their deceased loved ones in digital form.

Meanwhile, from 2044 to 2058, UEG has developed enough ion engines to stop Earth’s rotation, a necessary first step in getting it out of the current solar system. The Moving Mountain Project has now been renamed the Wandering Earth Project. But something goes terribly wrong when Hengyu uploads the digital memories of Yaya into the 550W supercomputer that Hengyu helped invent. It leads to the moon going on a collision course toward Earth.

Several people who work for UEG are involved in this disaster prevention mission. Liu Peiqiang (played by Wu Jing) is a UEG astronaut who represents the “everyday” man in the story who finds his inner hero when he is called on to save lives. Someone who was a trainee in the astronaut program is Han Duoduo (played by Wang Zhi), who has confidence and intelligence that Peiqiang immediately finds attractive.

Much of the earlier part of “The Wandering Earth II” chronicles a shy and awkward Peiqiang trying to court Duoduo, who rebuffs his advances but the warms up to him. It’s not spoiler information (since it’s already in “The Wandering Earth”) that Peiqiang and Duoduo eventually fall in love with each other, get married, and start a family together.

Another important person in Peiqiang’s life is Zhang Peng (played by Sha Yi), a senior-level UEG fighter pilot who becomes Peiqiang’s mentor. Other supporting characters in the story are Zhou Zhezhi (played by Li Xuejian), who is China’s ambassador to UEG; Hao Xiaoxi (played by Zhu Yanmanzi), who is Zhezhi’s personal assistant; Ma Zhao (played by Ning Li), who works with Hengyu as a quantum computing researcher; and Mike (played by Andy Friend), the U.S. ambassdor to UEG; and Andre Graschnov (played by Vitalli Makarychev), a Russian senior-level UEG fighter pilot. There’s also a cute computer robot named Benben.

“The Wandering Earth” packs in a lot of action and suspense, which are expected. However, the movie also skillfully weaves together the parallel stories of Hengyu and Peiqiang. Hengyu is working outside the UEG system with his secretive, behind-the-scenes computer research. Peiqiang is working inside the UEG system and is on the front lines of the battles to save lives. Peiqiang has a mentor. Hengyu does not. Both men experience grief related to a death in the family.

Beyond the explosions and races against time, “The Wandering Earth” explores issues related to hope and faith in humanity. It’s also an emotionally moving story about what personal sacrifices can mean if they are for a cause that’s bigger than one person’s needs. No one is going to win any major acting awards for “The Wandering Earth II,” but the cast members are believable in their roles. It doesn’t matter if viewers understand all the sci-fi jargon in the movie, because the greater message of “The Wandering Earth” is about the lengths that people will go to for their survival and the survival of future generations.

China Film Group Corporation and Well Go USA released “The Wandering Earth II” in U.S. cinemas on January 22, 2023, the same date the the movie was released in China and several other countries. The movie will be released on digital and VOD on May 9, 2023.

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UPDATE: Take a look at the international Trailer for The Wandering Earth 2

The film hits U.S. theaters and IMAX on January 22nd via Well Go USA.

UPDATE: The first Trailers for The Wandering Earth 2 is here!

The film is set for release on January 22, 2023.

UPDATE: A recent press conference for The Wandering Earth 2 was held with stars Wu Jing and Andy Lau in attendance.

Heavenly king and Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau ( Shock Wave 2 ) has reportedly been confirmed to star in The Wandering Earth 2 , a sequel to the box office science fiction hit released in 2019.

According to  Far East Films , Lau announced in a recent broadcast that he will join the cast and reunite with his Shaolin (2011) co-star Wu Jing ( Wolf Warrior 2 ), who is set to return for the sequel.

The Wandering Earth is based on a book by the same name written by science fiction writer Liu Cixin.

Grossing  $700 million worldwide  when released in 2019, the first film starred late veteran actor Ng Man-Tat ( Shaolin Soccer ) who recently passed away from liver cancer on February 27 th  this year.

The Wandering Earth 2 will be directed again by Frant Gwo and distributed by China Film Group.

The sequel is scheduled to be released during Lunar New Year in 2023.

SOURCE: Far East Films

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In the near future, after learning that the sun is rapidly burning out and will obliterate Earth in the process, humans build enormous engines to propel the planet to a new solar system, far out of reach of the sun's fiery flares. However, the journey out into the universe is perilous, and humankind's last shot at survival will depend on a group of young people brave enough to step up and execute a dangerous, life-or-death operation to save the earth.

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Andy Lau Stars In “The Wandering Earth 2”

Starring Wu Jing (吳京), Andy Lau (劉德華) and Li Xuejian ( 李雪健), sci-fi adventure flick The Wandering Earth 2 <流浪地球 2> held its press conference on November 11, and announced its upcoming premier in theaters on January 22, 2023, the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Physically Demanding   Sharing his excitement when he learnt he would be involved in the sequel to the 2019 sci-fi epic , Andy also spoke about the physical challenges of filming as he had to don a 35kg spacesuit costume and a 50kg scuba suit. He said, “I tried my best to avoid hurting my wait while filming, putting on the suit makes it difficult to turn around or even twist (my body), I thought about how to make myself more comfortable… The most unbearable part is I have no way to scratch where it itches, I stuck duct tape on the inside of my helmet, so I could relieve the urges by rubbing my face against the tape,”

Besides the physical burden of his outfits, Andy had to put on thousand-degree myopic glasses in the show, which meant he could hardly see and had to feel his way around using his hands. Despite the challenges, Andy very thoughtfully took care of veteran co-star Li Xuejian on set; the filming atmosphere was also convivial and felt like a gathering of old friends whenever the actors gathered backstage.

The Frant Gwo (郭帆) blockbuster is based on a well-known 2000 novel of the same name by Liu Cixin (劉慈欣), who is also producer.

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Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau has a number of new projects lined up, including appearances in ‘The Wandering Earth 2’, ‘Shock Wave 3’ and more.

By Isaac Chambers   |   Jun 19, 2021

Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau has certainly been keeping busy.

He recently completed the filming of ‘Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong’, from director Felix Chong (‘Overheard’ trilogy, ‘Project Gutenberg’), a new Hong Kong crime thriller also starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Simon Yam .

Later this year, he will start filming ‘Crisis Route’, the new air disaster film from director Oxide Pang (‘The Eye’, ‘The Detective’). It is rumoured that award-winning actress Zhou Dongyu from ‘ Soul Mate ’ and ‘Better Days’ will play the female lead.

In a recent broadcast, Lau announced that he will be joining the cast of the sequel to the 2019 box office smash ‘ The Wandering Earth ’, as well as the third instalment of his hit film series ‘ Shock Wave ’. Wu Jing has already been confirmed to make a return in ‘The Wandering Earth 2’, which is scheduled for release during Lunar New Year in 2023, while ‘Shock Wave 3’ will hit the big screen some time next year.

Finally, he is in talks to star in Mainland director Ning Hao’s new comedy. Lau invested in Ning’s breakout movie ‘Crazy Stone’, which achieved great success at the Chinese box office and launched Ning’s directing career in 2006.

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