BEIJING: The Chinese have a blockbuster superstar action hero they can believe in and his name is Wu Jing. The man has the Midas touch whenever he stars in a film released to Chinese movie theaters. He had captured the hearts and minds of the Chinese as Wolf Warrior, which had scored record-breaking box office success, and gone on a wildly successful sequel Wolf Warrior 2, generating US$307 million for its first week in ticket sales in the summer of 2017. As groundbreaking as these films were, Wu's latest flick The Wandering Earth has now surpassed that with a one-week total of US$349 million, according to Forbes magazine, during this year's Chinese New Year's celebrations. Wu Jing not only has Hollywood-worthy handsome looks, but in all his movies, he plays an all-too familiar lead character as the strong and silent, but reluctant hero, a man with a troubled soul who rises above it all despite his inner turmoil, when a crises ensues. His stereotyped caricature represents the Chinese spirit at its finest to many viewers. And in China's first big-budget science-fiction film The Wandering Earth, Wu did not disappoint playing protagonist Liu Peiqiang. A STORY OF EPIC PROPORTIONS The blockbluster… Read full this story
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