The Making of The Wandering Earth

A Film Production Handbook

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Edited by Jiaren Wang and Regina Kanyu Wang

Type: Stories
Subject: One Film > The Wandering Earth
Keywords: Frant Gwo, film making, science fiction, China
Publishing date: 2022
Publisher: Routledge
Collection: Studies in Global Genre Fiction
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 292 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-032-07216-6

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Book Presentation:
This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth, one of the highest-grossing non-English films of all time. It is a rare, in-depth, behind-the-scenes study of the making of a masterpiece, taking the reader through the entire production process of a landmark Chinese science fiction film.

The book brings to life how The Wandering Earth was created, from words to images, by a young and innovative professional team assembled by director Frant Gwo. It discusses specialized details of the filmmaking process and the collaborative work of the crew and the cast involved to present an intuitive feeling of the film’s production.

A step-by-step guide on the making of a radical large-scale film, this handbook critically examines its various stages such as

its development and production stages – the planning, preparing, recruiting, setting up departments and processes; writing the screenplay; creating a visual style and the production design; and the principal photography; its challenging post-production stages – the editing, visual effects production, color mixing; dubbing, sound editing; publicity, etc.

Further, the chapters in volume also explore how Chinese science fiction films disrupt the Western narrative context and provide the larger discourse on Chinese science fiction.

Richly illustrated with exclusive first-hand visuals from the making of the film, this handbook, part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, will be an essential read for professionals, scholars, researchers, and students of film and media production, film studies, popular culture, cultural studies, Chinese studies, world literature, and science fiction. It will also be of interest to the general reader interested in filmmaking.

About the authors:
Presented by Storycom
Editor-in-chief : Jiaren Wang
Vice editor-in-chief : Yiwen Zhang
Producer : Zhiyan Dong
English version editor and producer : Regina Kanyu Wang
Editing-writing committee members : Changye Chen, Aki Jiang, Jiecai Deng, Xinyue
Zhang, Mengyu Gu, Qianzi Wang
Translator : Guo Qi
Revisor : John Shanahan
Essayists : Mingwei Song, Yan Feng

Press Reviews:
"Rivaling the best of international productions – both technically and artistically, The Wandering Earth is a film of incredible accomplishment. Having experienced first-hand the brilliance and determination of the film makers in charge of this unprecedented film making endeavour, I feel incredibly fortunate to have enjoyed their vision and talent. A hugely positive landmark in Chinese film making and one that the people of China should be rightfully proud. The book does a great job in documenting the production process of the film."

Richard Taylor

Design and Effects Supervisor/ CEO

Weta Workshop

"The Making of The Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook is about far more than just one great novel or one exciting film. It shines light on upon one of the greatest and most promising trends in the history of all human mythic systems -- the rise of Chinese cinematic science fiction."

David Brin, author of EARTH, Kiln People and Existence.

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