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The film grossed $701 million worldwide. It is China's fifth highest-grossing film of all time and the fifth highest-grossing non-English film to date. It has received generally positive reviews from critics, with The Hollywood Reporter describing it as "China's first full-scale interstellar spectacular."[4] Netflix acquired the film's global streaming rights[5] and began streaming outside China on 30 April 2019.[6] A second film, The Wandering Earth 2, was released in January 2023, serving as a prequel.[7]

Seventeen years later, in 2075, Liu Peiqiang is set to return to Earth after the Chinese New Year. His son Liu Qi, now an adult, obtains fake IDs and stolen thermal suits from criminal gangs and "borrows" his grandfather's clearance pass to take his foster sister, Han Duoduo, to requisition a heavy transport vehicle to see the surface. Both are arrested at a nearby checkpoint and get jailed, meeting another prisoner, Tim. Han Zi'ang attempts to bribe an official for the release of his grandchildren, but is himself arrested. As Earth approaches its gravity assist around Jupiter, a spike in tidal force causes devastating earthquakes that disable many Earth Engines and sets the planet on a collision course with Jupiter.

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In 2012, China Film Group bought the rights to three of Liu Cixin's best-known science fiction novels, The Wandering Earth, Supernova Era and The Micro-Age.[9] The plan to turn The Wandering Earth into a film was first announced at China Film Group's 2014 film project promotion conference, which estimated the production cost would be $50 million.[10] In the middle of 2015, China Film Production Branch found Frant Gwo, to discuss the cooperation intention. Gwo replied that he was particularly interested in making science fiction films, but Supernova Era and The Micro-Age were technically more demanding and set in a more distant time, Frant Gwo chose The Wandering Earth. He thinks the technical extension of "The Wandering Earth" makes it easy to empathize with viewers.[11] Frant Gwo was a big fan of the science fiction genre and was first influenced by James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day which inspired him to become a director in the genre. He spent the following years studying the genre to direct a science fiction film.[12] In the middle of July 2016, The Wandering Earth was officially approved in the script filing of National Radio and Television Administration,[13][14] and confirmed by Frant Gwo to direct.[15]

In the pre-production stage, Frant Gwo first considered the center of gravity of the movie and the relationship with the original. Considering that "[from] the novel we can choose different perspectives, such as Liu Cixin often chooses God's perspective, the perspective of the universe, the timeline is very grand, crossing thousands of years. But the movie is hard to express this, If the movie spends two hours to express the detailed world view, it will become a scientific film." He believed that the film could only take the novel story as the background, and must focus on the characters and emotions of the story. Based on this, the crew began to consider which part of the original book would be more suitable for the film background. For this Frant Gwo emphasizes that for "the presentation of the movie needs, you must find a comparison that makes the audience feel very interesting, or can have a visual impact." In the end he decided to use Jupiter's accelerating gravity to precipitate the Earth into crisis, and for humans to use solidarity and wisdom to protect it as the setting, and to completely adapt the story, which is only about five paragraphs in the original book. Jupiter was chosen precisely for its visual impact: Earth is huge for humans, but becomes very small and fragile when compared with Jupiter, which is more than 1,300 times larger.[11]

In 2017 Beijing Culture partnered with the project to complete the film, together with China Film Group as the main producer of the film.[18] The Wandering Earth is the first film that is based on a novel written by Liu Cixin.[19]

Principal photography started on 26 May 2017, in Qingdao, a seaside city on north China's Shandong province,[20] and wrapped on 27 September 2017.[21] Weta Workshop made the film's spacesuits, exoskeletons and weaponry.[22][23]

Wu Jing was asked by Frant Gwo to play a cameo role in the film, but was later cast in a leading role. When he was told that the production had run into financial trouble, he gave up his remuneration and invested in the film to help it continue, for which he was given special thanks in the credits of the film.[24][25] Due to the financial difficulties, there was a limited remuneration budget, and the salary for the lead actor Qu Chuxiao was around 100,000 yuan (US$15,000).[26]

Liu Cixin, the author of the original novella, said to China Central Television, "Chinese studios have no interest to invest in sci-fi films. US sci-fi film audiences have trust but this trust between audiences and China's sci-fi movies doesn't exist yet and this is the main difference between Chinese and US sci-fi films...It is a challenge because this trust must build between producers, investors, and the audience until people have faith in a Chinese sci-fi movie."[27]

The film's music was composed by Roc Chen (),[28] and Liu Tao () as an additional composer.[29] The film's music was performed by the British Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Roc Chen at the Abbey Road Studios.

On 30 January 2019, Beijing-based distributor China Media Capital (CMC Pictures) announced that it has secured the international rights and is planning a sizable North American release on 8 February. The company will open the film in 22 cities in the U.S. and 3 in Canada, throughout Australia and New Zealand.[31] The movie released in U.S. theaters with IMAX 3D during the first week.

On 20 February 2019, it was announced that Netflix acquired the distribution rights to stream the film internationally. The film was expected to be available to stream globally on Netflix, outside of China, on 30 April 2019,[32][33] however the film was later promoted on the Netflix Facebook page as being released on 6 May 2019.[6]

The Wandering Earth released over the Chinese New Year holiday season, and earned more than CN2 billion (232 million) in 6 days, setting a new record for a Chinese film.[27][34] It also set the record for the highest-grossing Chinese film on IMAX.[35] Second weekend box office dropped 53%, on par with all other currently playing films post Chinese holiday season, as expected.[36] The film's total gross in China stands at CN4.655 billion.[37]

On release, it topped the worldwide box office with a 3-day opening weekend gross of $172,718,000, and had a 6-day opening gross of $289,090,290.[38] The film has grossed $693,371,204 in China, $5,875,487 in North America, and $1,575,366 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $699,992,512.[2][3]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 38 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The Wandering Earth's story won't win many points for originality, but this sci-fi epic earns its thrills with exciting set pieces and dazzling special effects."[39] On Metacritic the film has an average score of 57/100 based on reviews from 8 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[40]

The film received a generally positive reception in China. Several state-run media publications have given the film a positive review.[41][42] Zhong Sheng in the People's Daily writes that the film is "not superheroes saving the world but mankind changing their destiny together."[42]

Tasha Robinson of The Verge describes the film as "rich, gorgeous, and goofy".[43] Travis Johnson, of Flicks.com.au gave the film 4/5 stars and, whilst criticizing the film for its lack of character development, praised the visuals and called it the best science fiction film of 2019.[44] Ben Kenigsberg in The New York Times wrote that the film is "as awash in murky computer imagery, stupefying exposition and manipulative sentimentality as the average Hollywood tentpole", but that it proved that the Chinese film industry "can hold its own at the multiplex."[45] Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com gave the film 3.5/4 stars, saying that the experience was "visually dynamic, emotionally engaging".[46]

Zhuoyi Wang, an associate professor at Hamilton College, lauded the film's attempt in presenting a unifying view of humanity that imagines humans from diverse backgrounds coming together to save the earth from a disaster. In contrast, the film's Hollywood counterparts often feature a group of individuals from a single country or a single social class. Despite its attempted departure from the exclusionist individualism prevalent in Hollywood, The Wandering Earth has nevertheless received support from Chinese state media for nationalist reasons, leading many to dismiss it as an instrument of Chinese propaganda or a Hollywood clone.[47]

On Douban, during the initial release, the movie had a 8.5 rating; then suddenly fell to 7.9 as of the early morning of February 23 in China. It was claimed some reviewers were offered money for posting negative reviews on the rating platform. Douban banned nearly 50 users for violating guidelines and thousands of comments were removed.[48] The rating finally stabilized at 7.9. Some commenters, specifically on Douban, who gave the film negative reviews were accused to be in bad faith or trolling,[48][49] but the accusations are disputed.[50]

No one, at least for my taste, can tell a story on screen like Liu. The big selling point of Liu Cixin's 3BP trilogy's story telling is that, it's never about 1 problem with 1 protagonist, it's about series of events involving almost all of mankind. Individuals are insignificant in the story yet key to the plot. You almost never have issues fully resolved - until the end, it's densely packed twist and turns with concepts and ideas exploded at every coner to make you depressed even more but not enough to make you stop. For this, the first part of Wandering Earth actually gave us a hint on execution in film making. For the first half in the movie, you never know where the story is going but it's interesting enough to lure you in, the characters are exactly as insignificant(no depth) as Liu's work (LOL, believe me I meant to praise the director for this), and it actually captured the scale of everything that's happening very well to make the fictional world extremely immersive(I don't say it lightly). 006ab0faaa