The editorial Department of Universe Exploration is scheduled for April Fool's Day on April 1, expecting to detonate the cosmic joke.

Today, supervised by Wang Hongwei and Guo Fan, directed by Kong Dashan, starring Yang Haoyu and Aria, and starring Wang Yitong, Jiang Qiming and Sheng Chenchen, the sci-fi comedy "Space Exploration editorial Department" released "are you kidding me in the universe?" The trailer and poster will be released nationwide on April 1, 2023. The word-of-mouth masterpiece, which exploded among fans, announced "see you at the cinema" with the audience and asked, "are you kidding me in the universe?" The sense of humor is full in an instant, and the joyful and relaxed humorous temperament is about to emerge.

The film "Space Exploration editorial Department" previously won several awards at the Pingyao International Film Festival and the Beijing International Film Festival, and was shortlisted for the Rotterdam International Film Festival. it was difficult to get a ticket in each of the major film festivals, and this booking drew unanimous applause from the audience. they all said they couldn't wait to go into the cinema to have a look.

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detailed posters highlight the temperament of science fiction films and creative trailers are full of humorous style

The film "the editorial Department of Space Exploration" tells the story of Tang Zhijun (Yang Haoyu), the editor-in-chief of the science fiction magazine "Space Exploration", who has been obsessed with finding extraterrestrial civilizations for decades. One day, he received an abnormal signal suspected to be coming from the depths of the universe, so he summoned us both friends of pathetic people who had fallen to the end of the world, and with that question that puzzled him all his life, he embarked on the story of his journey to find aliens again.

Many details of the film's plot are hidden in the material released today. The poster seems absurd but intriguing: the main body of the picture is a donkey attracted by carrots, on the back of the donkey, and a group of people from the "Space Exploration editorial Department" led by editor-in-chief Tang Zhijun. The detector in Tang Zhijun's hand seems to have picked up a signal from an alien civilization, but the signal, like a carrot in the eyes of a donkey, may be real or illusory. There is "a universe" in the negative space inside the donkey, and Tang Zhijun and his party also encountered numerous adventures during their journey here: TV sets full of snowflakes, helpless astronauts, boxes with the words "cosmic virtue box", teenagers wearing aluminum pots on their heads, and strange means of transportation and so on. Many details of the poster are full of imagination, heralding the strange and interesting journey of "cosmic exploration".

At the same time, "are you kidding me in the universe?" The version of the trailer filled the film with a sense of humor in a unique form, which made people laugh. The whole trailer restores the TV advertising style of the 1980s and 1990s, and elements such as televisions, astronauts and cosmic merit boxes in fixed posters appear one after another. Attentive viewers can also find more surprise details such as editorial plaques, alien models, and a lonely "down-and-out saint". All this was sucked into a huge cauldron. Accompanied by the magic female voice recommendation: "large-scale domestic color wide-screen feature film", people are full of curiosity about the stories that take place in the film, and will be "see you at the cinema on April 1!" Keep it in mind. And the preview ends with a sentence, "are you kidding me in the universe?" Combined with the April 1 schedule, it gives birth to a very natural and advanced sense of humor. The whole trailer seems simple and light, but in fact, on the basis of Vintage style, it makes ingenious and effective use of Glitch Art and Psychedelic Art, and creatively deconstructs and reorganizes the elements of the film. Combined with the "Universe Exploration Editor" 's super high score on Douban platform 8.7, such a "masterpiece of the year" is even more curious.

**Young director's debut feature film won several awards and the core team of "wandering the Earth" escorted the core team.

The editorial Department of Space Exploration was directed by young director Kong Dashan. At the "Universe Premiere" held in Pingyao in 2021, from audiences to judges, from peer practitioners to film critics and media, "Space Exploration editorial Department" received high praise and became the most eye-catching film at the Pingyao Film Festival. In the end, "the editorial Department of Space Exploration" lived up to expectations and won Fei Mu's honorary Best Picture, Youth Review honorary Film, Shadow selection Honor and the most popular Film Award in the Tibetan Dragon Unit, becoming the well-deserved biggest winner. Guo Fan, one of the film's executive producers and director of wandering the Earth, praised the film's "exploring another possibility of Chinese sci-fi films!" Since then, the editorial Department of Space Exploration has successively won domestic and foreign awards such as Rotterdam International Film Festival, Beijing International Film Festival and Hong Kong International Film Festival. Leading actors Yang Haoyu and Aria also won the award of best actress in the Future focus Unit of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival and Best Actress in the Rookie Film Competition of the 46th Hong Kong International Film Festival.

In addition to the outstanding performance of young filmmakers, the success of the Space Exploration editorial Department is also inseparable from the strong behind-the-scenes support. "the Space Exploration editorial Department" is escorted by the core team of "wandering the Earth." the film is co-produced by Wang Hongwei, a famous screenwriter known as a "screenwriter's textbook" and Guo Fan, a director known as the "helmsman of Chinese science fiction films." Different from the sci-fi genre in the general sense, the Cosmic Exploration editorial Department is a mixture of absurdity, black humor, road films and other elements, and tells the ideal lamentations of ordinary people in a rare form of expression. lead the audience into a vast and affectionate spiritual world. As an extremely eye-catching attempt of the Chinese-language film, the editorial Department of Space Exploration was supported by two supervisors at the beginning of its creation. Film director Kong Dashan said in an interview: "in fact, this story is in the script stage." it's hard to imagine what kind of form it is through words. Director Guo Fan, teacher Wang Hongwei, and all the other creators, even myself, I am not sure. But they are duty-bound to help me achieve this thing. "

The film "Universe Exploration editorial Department" is produced by Guo Fan (Beijing) Film Co., Ltd., China Film Co., Ltd., Tianjin Maoyan Weiying Culture Media Co., Ltd., Wanda Film and Television Media Co., Ltd., Shanghai Chinese Film Co., Ltd., Huayi Brothers Film Co., Ltd., Shanghai Taopiao Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xiaolian Youth Culture Media Co., Ltd. Shanghai Jing exclamation Point Culture Media Co., Ltd., Juvenile Pi Film Wuxi Co., Ltd., Poly Film Investment Co., Ltd., Xing Yao Zhi Zhen (Foshan) Culture Media Co., Ltd., Shengdian Cultural Industry Investment Management Group Co., Ltd. Wang Hongwei, Guo Fan, Kong Dashan, Yang Haoyu, Aria starred, Wang Yitong, Jiang Qiming, Sheng Chenchen starred. The movie will be released nationwide on April 1. Check out this wave of word-of-mouth masterpiece "what cosmic joke"!