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The Wandering Earth 2 (2023) (DVD) (Taiwan Version)

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In 2019, The Wandering Earth set a new standard for Chinese sci-fi with its spectacular visualization of the same-titled short story by The Three-Body Problem author Liu Cixin. The Wandering Earth is set in a future in which Earth, faced with the peril of a dying sun, has built enormous rocket thrusters to propel and migrate the planet out of the solar system to a new home, a journey that will take 2,500 years. Directed by Frant Gwo, the film blazed through the Chinese box office with earnings of over 4.6 billion yuan. Arriving four years later, The Wandering Earth 2 , which has also crossed the four billion yuan benchmark, builds on the visionary story as a prequel to the first film. While The Wandering Earth begins years after planetary migration is underway, The Wandering Earth 2 is set during the start of the projects to save humanity, and delves into scientific, sociopolitical and moral dilemmas and themes also explored in The Three-Body Problem . Wu Jing returns to play astronaut Liu Peiqiang, and Andy Lau joins the cast as a computer engineer stationed on the moon. In the not-too-distant future, scientists have discovered that the sun is expanding rapidly and will soon engulf Earth and the entire solar system. The countries of the world form a coalition United Earth Government and devote all efforts to developing solutions to save humanity. In the end, the Mountain Moving Project proposed by China is adopted by the UEG. The Mountain Moving Project requires building thousands of planetary engines on the Earth's surface to move the planet out of the solar system, while a secondary Lunar Exile Project involves pushing the moon out of the Earth's orbit to remove its gravitational influence. With Earth's clock ticking down, the massive undertaking is beset with dangers and challenges, including terrorist attacks by supporters of the banned Digital Life Project, and the worsening impact of the solar crisis on the population.

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