Query: Films shot in Liaoning or Shandong, or 2023 sci-fi fiction action films
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
The Great Wall (film)
The Wandering Earth
The Wandering Earth 2
The Sino-Japanese War at Sea 1894
The Floating Landscape
Hundred Regiments Offensive (film)
Crying Out in Love
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
The Flash (film)
The Sacrifice (2020 film)
The Sword (1980 film)
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Decisive Engagement: The Liaoxi-Shenyang Campaign
Evidence from documents: The Great Wall (film): Principal photography began on March 30, 2015, on location in Qingdao. It is the most expensive film ever shot entirely in China.
The Wandering Earth: '''''The Wandering Earth''''' () is a 2019 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo, loosely based on the 2000 novel ''The Wandering Earth'' by Liu Cixin. The film stars Qu Chuxiao, Li Guangjie, Ng Man-tat, Zhao Jinmai, Wu Jing and Qu Jingjing. Set in the far future, it follows a group of astronauts and rescue workers guiding the Earth away from an expanding Sun, while attempting to prevent a collision with Jupiter. The film was theatrically released in China on 5 February 2019 (Chinese New Year's Day), by China Film Group Corporation.


The film grossed worldwide. It is China's fifth highest-grossing film of all time and the fifth highest-grossing non-English film to date. It has received generally positive reviews from critics, with ''The Hollywood Reporter'' describing it as "China's first full-scale interstellar spectacular." Netflix has acquired the film's global streaming rights. The film was available to stream by Netflix in various countries outside of China on 30 April 2019.


In 2061, the aging Sun is about to turn into a red giant and threatens to engulf the Earth's orbit within 100 years, forcing nations to consolidate into the United Earth Government (UEG). The Wandering Earth Project to migrate the Earth out of the Solar System and into the Alpha Centauri system is initiated and uses 12,000 enormous fusion-powered Earth Engines built across the Northern Hemisphere with further Torque Engines along the equator to propel the entirety of planet Earth. Chinese astronaut Liu Peiqiang oversees the gravitational slingshot maneuver of Earth using the gravity of Jupiter to assist propulsion before going on his mission to the Navigation Platform International Space Station to help navigate the Earth along its interstellar journey.


Much of the human population dies in the next few years due to cataclysmic natural disasters, including tsunamis that occur after Earth's rotation is halted. As the planet distances from the Sun, most of the surface becomes frozen solid, forcing remaining humans to live in vast underground cities built adjacent to and under the engines. Seventeen years later, in 2078, Liu Peiqiang is set to return to Earth after the Chinese New Year. His son Liu Qi, now an adult, obtains fake IDs and thermal suits from criminal gangs and steals his grandfather's clearance pass to take his foster sister, Han Duoduo, to illegally requisition a heavy transport vehicle. Both are arrested at a nearby checkpoint and get jailed. They meet fellow prisoner Tim and are soon joined by Han Zi'ang after he unsuccessfully attempts to bribe the prison warden into releasing them.


As Earth approaches Jupiter to make use of a gravity assist, a spike in tidal force causes devastating earthquakes that disable many Earth Engines across the globe. Jupiter's gravity puts Earth on a collision course with the gas giant. The four escape the prison amidst the chaos and attempt to make their way to another underground city inside Han Zi'ang's truck. They are stopped by and requisitioned for an emergency mission by a military rescue team led by Captain Wang Lei, transporting a Lighter Core to restart the 01 Earth Engine in Hangzhou. In the frozen ruins of Shanghai, they lose their vehicle while transporting the component up the ruins of the Shanghai Tower, where Han Zi'ang freezes to death after being trapped. After a confrontation with the other rescue team members, Liu, Tim and Han decide to abandon the mission. The trio come upon a crashed cargo plane with an intact vehicle, where the surviving engineer aboard, Li Yiyi, eventually convinces them to transport another Lighter Core to repair the Torque Engine in Sulawesi, reconciling with the other members on the way.


Liu Peiqiang discovers that MOSS, the A.I. commanding the space station, has prioritized a new mission: rather than to assist Earth, the station is planned to serve as an interstellar ark to seed a new planet with Earth's biosphere. Liu manages to break out of forced hibernation along with Russian cosmonaut Maxim Makarov in attempts to reach the control room. While spacewalking, Makarov is killed by the spacecraft's automated security measures. Liu enters the control room, but his attempts of overriding the evacuation procedures are revoked due to insubordination. Liu Qi's group arrives at the Sulawesi Supply Depot to find that the engine was already fully restored along with most others around the planet. However, the combined thrust of the engines is no longer able to divert the trajectory, with Earth approaching Jupiter's Roche limit. MOSS broadcasts a final message to the world, but Liu Peiqiang is reluctant to follow the A.I's instructions.


Liu Qi proposes to ignite the oxygenated mixture of Jupiter and Earth's atmospheres to blow Earth away. Li Yiyi hacks the Sulawesi Engine and concentrates its power to fire a plasma beam tall enough to ignite Jupiter. The group overcome various challenges and are able to mostly reconfigure the engine to carry out the plan, but are unable to push the firing pin of the engine to ignite it.


Liu Peiqiang, contacted by Han, is able to persuade the UEG to use its communication channels to call assistance for the party at Sulawesi, even though MOSS reveals that the attempted solution was already proposed by Israeli scientists and has zero chance of success. Other rescue and repair parties arrive in time and the engine is started along with two additional engines, but falls short of being able to ignite the Jovian hydrogen. After disabling MOSS using a fire started with a bottle of vodka that Makarov smuggled on board, Liu Peiqiang pilots the space station into the plasma jet, tearfully apologizing to his son for breaking his promise before sacrificing himself to ignite the mix of atmospheres. The subsequent shockwave saves Earth from destruction, with Liu Qi and Han narrowly surviving the aftermath.


Three years later, Liu, Han, and Tim work as transport vehicle drivers, as Earth continues towards the Alpha Centauri star system.
* Qu Chuxiao as Liu Qi ()
* Li Guangjie as Captain Wang Lei ()
* Ng Man-tat as Han Zi'ang ()
* Zhao Jinmai as Han Duoduo ()
* Wu Jing as Liu Peiqiang ()

* Arkady Sharogradsky as Makarov

* Mike Sui as Tim
* Qu Jingjing as Zhou Qian ()
* Zhang Yichi as Li Yiyi ()
* Yang Haoyu as He Lianke ()
* Li Hongchen as Zhang Xiaoqiang ()
* Yang Yi as Yang Jie ()
* Jiang Zhigang as Zhao Zhigang ()
* Zhang Huan as Huang Ming ()
* Lei Jiayin as Yi Ge

===Development===




In 2012, China Film Group bought the rights to three of Liu Cixin's best-known science fiction novels, The Wandering Earth, The Age of Supernovae and The Micro-Age. The plan to turn The Wandering Earth into a film was first announced at China Film Group's 2014 film project promotion conference, which estimated the production cost would be $50 million. In the middle of 2015, China Film Production Branch found Frant Gwo, to discuss the cooperation intention. Gwo replied that he was particularly interested in making science fiction films, but The Age of Supernovae and The Micro-Age were technically more demanding and set in a more distant time, Frant Gwo chose The Wandering Earth. He thinks the technical extension of "The Wandering Earth" makes it easy to empathize with viewers. Frant Gwo was a big fan of the science fiction genre and was first influenced by James Cameron's ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' which inspired him to become a director in the genre. He spent the following years studying the genre to direct a science fiction film. In the middle of July 2016, The Wandering Earth was officially approved in the script filing of National Radio and Television Administration, and confirmed by Frant Gwo to direct.



=== Pre-production ===
In the pre-production stage, Frant Gwo first considered the center of gravity of the movie and the relationship with the original. Considering that "from the novel we can choose different perspectives, such as Liu Cixin often chooses God's perspective, the perspective of the universe, the timeline is very grand, crossing thousands of years. But the movie is hard to express this, If the movie spends two hours to express the detailed world view, it will become a scientific film." He believed that the film could only take the novel story as the background, and must focus on the characters and emotions of the story. Based on this, the crew began to consider which part of the original book would be more suitable for the film background. For this Frant Gwo emphasizes that for "the presentation of the movie needs, you must find a comparison that makes the audience feel very interesting, or can have a visual impact." In the end he decided to use Jupiter's accelerating gravity to precipitate the Earth into crisis, and for humans to use solidarity and wisdom to protect it as the setting, and to completely adapt the story, which is only about five paragraphs in the original book. Jupiter was chosen precisely for its visual impact: Earth is huge for humans, but becomes very small and fragile when compared with Jupiter, which is more than 1,300 times larger.


After confirming Jupiter's background the crew began to consider a world view, which was the most difficult part of Kuo Fan's preparatory work. The whole world outlook of the set took about eight months, from the social aspect of politics, economics, culture, education, entertainment, and food production, to natural levels of physical environment change in the Earth, how to escape the sun, the cast, and the relationship between all of these relevant aspects. In order to establish a rigorous setting, Gwo invited 4 scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to act as consultants.


The crew also chronicled one hundred years of history, including the big events since 2017, to connect the real world and the movie world.


The film's 3,000 concept maps and more than 8,000 sub-mirrors were created by a conceptual art team of 300 people over a period of 15 months.


In 2017 Beijing Culture partnered with the project to complete the film, together with China Film Group as the main producer of the film. The Wandering Earth is the first film that is based on a novel written by Liu Cixin.



=== Filming ===

Spacesuit used in the film
Principal photography started on 26 May 2017, in Qingdao, a seaside city on north China's Shandong province, and wrapped on 27 September, 2017. Weta Workshop made the film's spacesuits, exoskeletons and weaponry.


Wu Jing was asked by Frant Gwo to play a cameo role in the film, but was later cast in a leading role. When he was told that the production had run into financial trouble, he gave up his remuneration and invested in the film to help it continue, for which he was given special thanks in the credits of the film. Due to the financial difficulties, there was a limited remuneration budget, and the salary for the lead actor Qu Chuxiao was around 100,000 yuan (US$15,000).
The Wandering Earth 2: sci-fi fiction action films: '''''The Wandering Earth 2''''' is an upcoming science fiction action-adventure film
2023: Production for the film officially began on 13 October 2021 and is set for release on 22 January 2023, the first day of the Chinese New Year holidays.
The Sino-Japanese War at Sea 1894: The film premiered in China at the International Convention Centre in Weihai, Shandong, on 26 June 2012.
Crying Out in Love: '''''Crying Out In Love''''' () is a 2016 Chinese romance film directed and co-written by Kwak Jae-yong, starring Oho Ou, Zhang Huiwen and Yang Zi. The film is an adaptation of Kyoichi Katayama's 2004 novel ''Socrates in Love''. It was released by Beijing Enlight Pictures on 26 August 2016.
In 2008, Xia Ye receives a mysterious package from the Post Office of the Future, which contains audio cassettes from the late 1990s and an old cassette player. She listens to them on the train to Qingdao and hears the voice of the 17-year-old Ke Da. Back in the hot summer of 1997, Ke Da had fallen for Xia Ye during their senior year at high school, and the two had expressed their feelings to each other via audio cassettes. Li Fusheng, a guy who Ke Da met at swimming classes, runs the Post Office for the future, accepting messages for the living or the dead to be delivered sometime in the future. He believed that the dead live on at the Centre of the World, where they meet because of love.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: sci-fi fiction action films: '''''Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania''''' is an upcoming American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Scott Lang / Ant-Man and Hope Pym / Wasp.
2023: ''Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'' is scheduled to be released in the United States on February 17, 2023
The Flash (film): ''The Flash'' is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 23, 2023
The Sacrifice (2020 film): The project was officially greenlit in August 2020. Reports indicated that Wu Jing had begun filming in Dandong, Liaoning.
The Sword (1980 film): It was filmed in a provincial town of China Shandong province
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts: 2023: ''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 9, 2023, by Paramount Pictures.
sci-fi fiction action films: '''''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''''' is an upcoming American science fiction action film based on the ''Transformers'' toy-line and primarily influenced by the ''Beast Wars'' storyline.
Decisive Engagement: The Liaoxi-Shenyang Campaign: Filming took place in Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Ningxia, Shandong.