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The Wandering Earth is China’s biggest sci-fi blockbuster (and it’s coming to the US)
But the film that’s coming to America doesn’t actually have any Americans in it
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So the Sun’s about to die. And Earth is the only planet we have. What do we do?
That is the basic premise of The Wandering Earth, which is billed as China’s biggest science fiction blockbuster to date.
The movie depicts the solution: Build enormous thrusters around the planet to slingshot it into a new star system. And in the meantime, we’ll live in underground cities during the centuries-long voyage.
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If you find it insane but bizarrely interesting, well, you might be able to see the film this weekend: It’s set to have a theatrical release in select cities in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The movie has already done gangbusters in China, pocketing over US$74 million in just three days. There’s tremendous amount of hype around it -- it’s a marquee title for the Lunar New Year holiday in China, and the story is adapted from Hugo Award winner Liu Cixin's novel of the same name. (For you sci-fi geeks out there, Liu is the one behind the famed Three-Body Problem).
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