Is "The Wandering Earth" Liu Cixin's most suitable novel to be made into a movie? Why

"The Wandering Earth" is the most suitable of all Liu Cixin's novels to be turned into a movie.

Below, I will compare several other famous novels by Liu with "The Wandering Earth":

"Ball Lightning":

"Ball Lightning" "" is relatively easy to shoot and produce, there are not many plots that require special effects, and the characters are also very rich.

But the problem with "Ball Lightning" is that it is a science fiction novel based on quantum mechanics. Audiences who do not have a certain understanding of modern physics are destined to be confused by quantum mechanics. .

So even if "Ball Lightning" is filmed, it is destined not to have such impressive box office results as "The Wandering Earth".

"Earth Cannon":

"Earth Cannon" is among all Liu Cixin's novels, except for "The Wandering Earth", the most suitable for being made into a movie.

"Earth Cannon" is a science fiction story in which the protagonist uses three different timelines to connect two different timelines after experiencing cryonics technology twice.

However, compared to "The Wandering Earth", the story of "Earth Cannon" is still slightly less interesting.

"Supernova Era":

"Supernova Era" tells the story of a future world where all adult humans are extinct, leaving only a group of children surviving and ruling the world.

This is a science fiction novel, but it also belongs to desert island literature. Very similar to "Lord of the Flies" released in 1963, desert island literature aims to reveal the future and expose the dark side of human nature.

So the problem of "Supernova Era" is similar to that of "Ball Lightning", that is, the public is not very receptive to such themes and cannot reach the box office level of "The Wandering Earth".

"The Three-Body Problem":

The problem with "The Three-Body Problem" is that its worldview is too grand and its characters are too full-bodied, which is doomed if "The Three-Body Problem" "Adapted into a movie, such a huge amount of information cannot be crammed into two hours.

So whether it is based on the current level of domestic industrial films or Hollywood, "The Three-Body Problem" is extremely difficult to complete.

Even Liu himself said that "The Three-Body Problem" is not suitable for Hollywood.

In contrast, "The Wandering Earth" has two points that determine that it will be the first of all Liu's novels to be adapted into a movie.

First: The sense of doomsday brought by "The Wandering Earth" is even better than that of "2012". In the face of the doomsday, people all over the world share the same hatred and seek opportunities together. Such a plot setting It is rare in Liu's novels. For example, in "The Three-Body Problem", a large part of the plot is used to criticize the despicability of human nature, which is not suitable for being adapted into a science fiction film.

This sense of doom not only brings an immersive sense of urgency to the audience, but also a strong sense of mission and touch, which is a rare quality in science fiction films.

Second: "The Wandering Earth" is, to put it bluntly, a heroic movie. Although some people look down on heroism, it is indeed the most suitable theme for industrial movies, whether it is Marvel, DC, Or the "box office monster" "Wolf Warrior 2", both proved that heroism is an effective theme choice.

Now the box office performance of "The Wandering Earth" is close to that of "Wolf Warrior 2", which also proves this point.