The Wandering Earth 2, the sequel to the Chinese language sci-fi blockbuster that earned $700 million in 2019, is charting a course for North America, due to a distribution deal inked by distributor Nicely Go USA. The specialty label has acquired the home theatrical rights to the movie and set it up for a day-and-date launch with China on Jan. 22, the primary day of the Chinese language New 12 months. Nicely Go says it’ll launch The Wandering Earth 2 in over 125 North American theaters, together with 30 Imax screens.

The Wandering Earth 2 is a prequel to the 2019 hit movie and prefer it’s predecessor, it’s primarily based on  the brief story of the identical title by Chinese language sci-fi creator Liu Cixin, world famend for his best-selling novel The Three Physique Downside. The movie is once more written and directed by Frant Gwo (higher recognized in China as Guo Fan), with Chinese language motion hero Wu Jing (Wolf Warrior 2) reprising his starring function and Hong Kong main man Andy Lau becoming a member of as a co-star. Liu is credited as a producer on the movie, alongside Chinese language hitmaker Music Ge (Wolf Warrior 2, Dying to Survive, The Wandering Earth) as government producer.

The primary The Wandering Earth, which was acquired for all territories exterior of China by Netflix, revolved round a rescue mission to avoid wasting human civilization because the solar approached the tip of its life cycle and was set to blow up, prompting humanity to construct big engines to propel planet earth exterior of the photo voltaic system to discover a new celestial dwelling. Set within the distant future, China performs a key management function in world affairs and helps drive the survival mission.

The sequels official plot abstract reads: “People constructed big engines on the floor of the earth to discover a new dwelling. However the street to the universe is perilous. With a view to save earth, younger folks as soon as once more must step ahead to start out a race towards time for all times and loss of life.”

State-backed China Movie Co. is a presenter of the movie in tandem with Gwo’s banner Guo Fan Tradition and Media and Wu Jing’s firm Beijing Dengfeng Worldwide Media. As is typical with huge Chinese language tentpoles, the movie additionally counts over a dozen co-financiers, together with main studios Alibaba Footage, Wanda Media and Huayi Brothers.

The Wandering Earth 2 is at present thought of probably the most anticipated frontrunner for China’s Lunar New 12 months field workplace race, which generally sees two or three prime titles earn a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} throughout their first week of launch. How the extreme COVID-19 outbreak at present sweeping China will have an effect on gross sales in the course of the coming vacation, which begins Jan. 22 and lasts a little bit over every week, stays a topic of intense hypothesis throughout the Chinese language trade.