



Along with this, computer engineer Tu Hengyu, who had previously worked on the Digital Life Project before it was banned, works on incorporating the new 550 Series quantum computer,which was the original edition of 550C, will both control the highly efficient automated construction of the engines, and also control the operation once the engines are to be tested. To restore public faith in the Moving Mountain Project, Liu Peiqiang and other UEG engineers are sent to the moon to work on finishing construction of three lunar engines, which are prototypes to demonstrate the function before installing the first engines on Earth. Although UEG trainee astronaut Liu Peiqiang and his fellow trainees manage to defeat the hijackers on their vehicles, both the space elevator and Ark Space station are critically damaged and crash down to Earth. However, a series of terrorist attacks by well-armed DLP supporters on the UEG facilities in 2044 resulted in a hacked drone attack on the space elevator in Libreville, Gabon, as well as a coordinated hacking of the elevator vehicles by highly trained infiltrators, with the aim of destroying the Ark Space Station supplying the lunar operation. The first phase of the Moving Mountain Project is to build and test an ion engine on the Moon. In doing so, the UEG shuts down and bans the Digital Life Project (DLP), a radical group who believe humanity's future is in digital immortality by developing mind uploading technologies, despite skepticism and increasingly violent protests from the public. Plot and background Īs the Sun becomes an expanding red giant and threatens to engulf the Earth in 100 years, the United Nations, now renamed as the United Earth Government (UEG), decides to proceed with the Moving Mountain Project, the pilot program to build thousands of gigantic ion engines that can propel the Earth out of the Solar System towards another habitable star system. The Wandering Earth 2 was released on 22 January 2023, the same day as the Chinese New Year Day.

The film is a prequel to the 2019 film The Wandering Earth, which is based on the short story of the same name by Liu Cixin, who serves as the film's producer.Īfter the major box-office success of its predecessor, a sequel was announced by Guo on 20 November 2019 before it was greenlit on 21 July 2021, with production officially starting on 13 October 2021. The Wandering Earth 2 ( Chinese: 流浪地球2) is a 2023 Chinese science fiction action-adventure film directed and co-written by Frant Gwo, and starring Andy Lau, Wu Jing and Li Xuejian.
