95: Chapter 95 Let the Bullets Fly for a While!

After the release date was confirmed, the official The Wandering Earth account began promoting it on Weibo.

However, since most of the funds were used for making props, renting venues, buying equipment, and so on, the production crew had no extra money left for publicity.

Therefore, they only conducted one wave of promotion on Weibo using the official The Wandering Earth account.

The general message was: The Wandering Earth has finished filming and will meet everyone in a month, releasing in cinemas across the country.

The release of this news still generated quite a bit of buzz on Weibo.

After all, the previous public opinion controversy involving Xu's Heavy Industry had, to some extent, provided some advertising for The Wandering Earth.

At the same time, The Wandering Earth was marketed with the gimmick of being the "First Sci-Fi Masterpiece of the Dragon Kingdom," which attracted a lot of attention.

Just a few hours after the Weibo post went out, it attracted many netizens to watch.

Some fans who had been following the movie The Wandering Earth were pleasantly surprised and full of anticipation when they saw that the movie would be released in a month.

"Great! From the moment the movie project was initially planned to now, when it is about to be released, I have been waiting for several years."

"Looking forward to the movie release, I will definitely go watch it!"

"Congratulations to The Wandering Earth for officially wrapping up filming, looking forward to the movie in a month!"

"Actor Wu Jing's new movie is worth the wait!"

However, the netizens holding anticipation and surprise were, after all, only a minority.

More netizens held great skepticism about The Wandering Earth being released just one month after filming finished.

Some netizens even started cursing directly in the comment section of the post.

"Releasing it one month after filming? How impatient are they to cash in? They might as well have written the words 'cashing in' on their faces."

"This is the attitude of the film industry toward sci-fi movies—completely lacking in serious refinement, only thinking about making quick money. Can they even make a good movie?"

"Although everyone is cursing, according to rumors, the special effects this time are really awesome..."

"Awesome special effects? You mean five-cent special effects?"

"..."

Under the The Wandering Earth Weibo post, the two sides of netizens—supporters and detractors—started a flame war.

But clearly, the detractors were more numerous and forced the netizens supporting The Wandering Earth into retreat.

It could be seen that under the topic of The Wandering Earth, at a glance, most posts did not look favorably upon the movie.

Every post was filled with pessimism and insults.

Some of the language was unbearable to look at, filled with personal attacks, fully exposing the foul mouths of internet keyboard warriors.

Director Guo Fan just laughed off the online discussions.

He had long been accustomed to the various pessimistic views and insults online.

Or rather, when he decided to start filming a sci-fi movie, he had already anticipated that this scene would happen.

The cake of the sci-fi movie market is huge, but to eat it, one needs not only great courage and guts, but also a script that can stand the test of time.

Actor Wu Jing sat to the side, quietly scrolling through his phone.

When he saw the screen full of posts cursing The Wandering Earth and cursing Director Guo Fan, he was angered to the point of laughter.

"Director Guo, looking at this, it seems like we are going to 'die before achieving success'."

Actor Wu Jing teased.

It was his first time seeing a movie receive a wave of negative reviews online before it had even been officially released.

The Wandering Earth could be considered to have made history.

"Only after the movie is released will we see the truth. Let the bullets fly for a while!"

Director Guo Fan spoke softly, saying with a smile.

Whether The Wandering Earth can succeed is not something these netizens can decide.

It depends on the box office reaction after The Wandering Earth is released.

He believed that with the plot structure and grand scenes of The Wandering Earth...

...and the imposing props provided by Xu Hao...

The Wandering Earth will definitely succeed! It will definitely be a hit!

Director Guo Fan's eyes were full of confidence.

Actor Wu Jing was slightly stunned, and when he saw Director Guo Fan's firm gaze...

...he silently turned off his phone and said in a deep voice:

"All the negative voices will become the driving force for The Wandering Earth to keep moving forward. I believe in The Wandering Earth!"

...

Xu Hao had been slightly freer during this period.

The 6th Generation Stealth Bomber project was proceeding in an orderly and step-by-step manner.

His daily task was to go to the Underground Research Institute to grasp the general direction of research and development.

Then, he would provide detailed answers to the questions raised by the researchers.

That day, when Xu Hao returned to the office from the Underground Research Institute, he saw that Director Guo Fan had reposted a Weibo post.

It was the official The Wandering Earth account promoting the movie.

Seeing this, Xu Hao called Wang Qian in.

"Chairman Xu!"

Click, click, click—Wang Qian walked in from outside the office in her high heels.

"Use the official Weibo of Xu's Heavy Industry to repost Director Guo Fan's movie as well; their movie is about to be released."

Xu Hao instructed.

After all, Director Guo Fan was his first business partner.

It could be said that after cooperating with Director Guo Fan, Xu's Heavy Industry had a fresh start.

Wang Qian followed Xu Hao's instructions, immediately logged into Xu's Heavy Industry's Weibo, and reposted the promotional post from the official The Wandering Earth account.

She left a message on it:

"Wishing The Wandering Earth a smooth release and great box office success!"

Upon seeing that it was the official Weibo of Xu's Heavy Industry, The Wandering Earth replied.

The two official accounts had a small interaction with each other.

Some netizens who were watching the excitement immediately came to Xu's Heavy Industry's Weibo to leave comments.

"I heard the props for The Wandering Earth were made by Xu's Heavy Industry?"

"Are your props any good? Don't let it look like cheap plastic when it comes out."

"Everyone, don't hold too much hope. A company that was about to go bankrupt and only managed to maintain operations after state capital injection—how good could the props they make be?"

"Yeah, not asking for the props to be great, just don't hold the movie back!"

"Post a few pictures of the movie props! Since filming started, we haven't seen any prop pictures. Is it because they look too ugly and you're afraid to show them?"

"..."

Many netizens were in the comment section asking Xu's Heavy Industry's official Weibo to post a few pictures of the props.

However, after the official account posted this tweet, it went silent.

It ignored all the netizens' suggestions, as if it hadn't seen them at all.

Seeing this, some netizens were immediately displeased.

A small state-owned enterprise, what are you acting so high and mighty for?

Just asked you to post a few prop pictures, and you won't even acknowledge us?

Suddenly, the comment section, which had been relatively harmonious just a moment ago, was instantly occupied by all sorts of cynical remarks.

"The props made by Xu's Heavy Industry must be amazing, since you won't even release a single picture for us netizens."

"Xu's Heavy Industry must be the number one prop manufacturer in the Dragon Kingdom; can ordinary people even look at their props?"

"Keep it up, Xu's Heavy Industry, I will continue to curse you!"

"Stop cursing, stop cursing. The props made by Xu's Heavy Industry are state secrets. Releasing them would be leaking secrets, and then everyone will be arrested!"

"..."

Netizens speculated that Xu's Heavy Industry was unwilling to release pictures of the props because the props were definitely unsatisfactory, so they didn't dare to post them.

After all, Xu's Heavy Industry was about to go bankrupt before, and the state only injected capital into it a few months ago.

How good could the props made by such a heavy industry enterprise be?

Thinking this way, the netizens became even more unscrupulous, leaving sarcastic comments one after another, treating Xu's Heavy Industry as a joke.