The Wandering Earth became one of the biggest hits in Chinese cinema history earlier this year, propelling itself to become the second highest-grossing film of all time in the country and racking up one of the biggest international grosses on the planet for 2019 so far (it’s still third, even with Endgame). And now, outta nowhere, it dropped on U.S. Netflix.
Well, not super out of nowhere. Back in February, the streaming service announced that foreign audiences would get a chance to see what the space epic adapted from a short story by The Three Body Problem’s Liu Cixin — which concerns humanity’s last-gasp quest to find a new solar system to call home, when Earth’s fate is imperilled by the death of our sun — was all about. But Netflix didn’t provide a date for release at the time, and it turns out the date was this past weekend, as spotted by /Film. Surprise!
The Wandering Earth wasn’t included in Netflix’s pretty solid.
If you’re looking to check it out for yourself, unfortunately it is no available on Australian Netflix. Your only chance, as far as we know, was the limited theatrical release it had back in early 2019 throughout Australia and New Zealand.