{"id":87629,"date":"2019-02-11T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/chinas-film-industry-finally-joins-the-space-race"},"modified":"2019-02-11T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T09:02:14","slug":"chinas-film-industry-finally-joins-the-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/chinas-film-industry-finally-joins-the-space-race","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Film Industry Finally Joins the Space Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-film-industry-finally-joins-the-space-race3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both \u201cThe Wandering Earth\u201d and \u201cCrazy Alien\u201d are adapted from works by Liu Cixin, the writer who has led a renaissance in science fiction here, becoming the first Chinese winner of the Hugo Award for the genre in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>His novels are sprawling epics and deeply researched. That makes them plausible fantasies about humanity\u2019s encounters with a dangerous universe. Translating them into movies would challenge any filmmaker, as the director of \u201cThe Wandering Earth,\u201d Guo Fan, acknowledged during a screening in Beijing last week.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Science-fiction movies have been slow to catch on in China, but led by \u201cThe Wandering Earth,\u201d a wave of new blockbusters might change that.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/04\/movies\/wandering-earth-china.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/04\/movies\/wandering-earth-china.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both \u201cThe Wandering Earth\u201d and \u201cCrazy Alien\u201d are adapted from works by Liu Cixin, the writer who has led a renaissance in science fiction here, becoming the first Chinese winner of the Hugo Award for the genre in 2015. His novels are sprawling epics and deeply researched. That makes them plausible fantasies about humanity\u2019s encounters [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}