ITN Distribution has released a trailer for the Chinese sci-fi thriller Restart the Earth. Directed by Zhenzhao Lin, the film sees mankind threatened with extinction when a drug developed to promote the reproduction of plant cells accidently awakens the plant intelligence, causing them to engulf cities and attack humans; check out the trailer below, along with a couple of posters…
When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is depleted. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to the core of the plants to reverse their growth.
Restart the Earth is expected to release later this year from ITN Distribution.