On April 15, 2025, the film "The Wandering Earth 3" was announced to start shooting and released its first concept poster, announcing that this "wandering journey" across the galaxy will set off again.
The film is directed by Guo Fan, and the original cast including Wu Jing, Andy Lau, Qu Chuxiao, Zhao Jinmai, etc. are all back. It is expected to be released on the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2027 (February 6). The countdown is 662 days, triggering a wave of anticipation across the Internet. Guo Fan, Wu Jing and Shen Teng attended the opening ceremony on the day.
The Wandering Earth 3 opening poster
Since the release of The Wandering Earth, adapted from Liu Cixin's novel in 2019, which opened a new era of Chinese science fiction films with a box office of 4.686 billion yuan, the second film in the series, The Wandering Earth 2, has achieved another box office success of 4.029 billion yuan. The cumulative box office of the two films has exceeded 8.7 billion yuan, ranking at the top of the Chinese film box office history. This series not only set a precedent for Chinese film genre narratives with hardcore special effects and oriental narratives, but also set an industry benchmark with its super high reputation. The grand theme of "a community with a shared future for mankind" and the expression of local culture provide an important sample for the international exploration of Chinese science fiction themes.
The story of "The Wandering Earth 3" tells that the sun is about to be destroyed, and humans have built a huge thruster on the surface of the earth to find a new home. However, the road to the universe is full of dangers. In order to save the earth, the young people of the Wandering Earth era stepped forward for the third time and started a life-and-death battle against time.
According to director Guo Fan, the script of "The Wandering Earth 3" has been overturned and rewritten 9 times. The creative team invited a large number of scientists to serve as consultants to strengthen the rigor of the scientific setting. The film will continue the main line of the "Wandering Earth Project", focusing on the life and death choices of the younger generation in the cosmic crisis, and deeply explore technological ethics issues such as AI awakening and digital life. At the production level, the crew adopted a continuous shooting mode of upper and lower parts, and the shooting cycle is expected to be 8 months. The budget has doubled compared to the previous work, and domestic well-known technology companies have been introduced to provide cutting-edge technical support, striving to achieve the "series peak" in scene construction and visual effects.
