The Wandering Earth II is a 2023 Chinese movie set in the mid-21st century as humanity races to save Earth from the Sun’s impending expansion into a red giant.
The film chronicles the global effort to build thousands of massive planetary engines (and three more on the Moon) to propel the entire planet out of the Solar System - an audacious plan known as the
Moving Mountain Project - while contending with the rival
Digital Life Project that seeks to upload human consciousness into computers instead.
In the film, the Lunar bases for the three giant planetary engines built into Lunar crater rims are portrayed as sprawling, industrial megacomplexes carved into the Moon’s harsh terrain - towering gantries, clusters of spaceships on multiple launch pads, heavy lunar rovers kicking up plumes of regolith, and extensive networks of modular habitats, storage tanks, and processing plants illuminated by harsh artificial lights.
Here is a collection of Lunar scenery from the movie:
