“Ball Lightning” Novel Cover
Another live-action adaptation of Liu Cixin’s (writer of The Wandering Earth) sci-fi novel, titled Ball Lightning, is currently in-the-works from actor/writer/director Chen Sicheng, who is perhaps best known for the Detective Chinatown franchise.
The novel follows the experiences of a first-person protagonist, Chen, whose family was killed by a ball lightning while he was in high school. Both traumatized and inspired by that experience, he makes the investigation of ball lightning his life’s work, first getting his PhD in the subject, then exploring the phenomena through both applied and theoretical research. During the research, a military technology researcher Lin Yuan who wants to turn his science into a weapon and brings him in to a weapons development research team (via Wikipedia).
Martial arts star Wu Jing (Wolf Warrior 2, Call of Heroes, SPL 2) and Zhang Yi (Operation Red Sea, The Eight Hundred) are rumored to star (via AFS).
We’ll keep you updated as more news arrives. Until then, here’s the Trailer for The Wandering Earth, which is currently streaming on Netflix.
