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If you're into hard sci-fi and/or checking out Netflix's latest big shows, chances are you'll be watching 3 Body Problem starting today. After all, Netflix has blown $160 million (plus $200 on a deal with its creators) on the series, so it should at least feel grand, right?David Benioff and D.B. Weiss' (Game of Thrones) long-anticipated adaptation of Liu Cixin's hit 2008 sci-fi novel has been in the works for a long time, roughly since around the time the pair were done with Thrones' highly...
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When some of the world’s most promising scientists start dying in gruesome fashion, that’s not just a problem: That’s a 3 Body Problem. Season 1 of Netflix‘s series adaptation of Liu Cixin’s classic sci-fi novel dropped today on the streaming service; in a minute, we’re going to want to know what you thought of the […]
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Series seldom arrive as nicely scaled for long (potentially very long) multi-season runs as “3 Body Problem,” a brainy science-fiction concept from a producing team – “Game of Thrones’” D.B. Weiss and David Benioff – whose last major venture shared similar attributes. Rapidly disgorging secrets, the eight-episode opening salvo effectively plants a hook for many more problems to come. Based on the books by Chinese author Liu Cixin, revealing details about the show risks spoiling it for the...
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David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo adapted Liu Cixin's lauded "Remembrance of Earth's Past" series for Netflix, with mixed results. Review.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creative minds behind the television version of Game of Thrones, have a new show coming to Netflix: 3 Body Problem. The show is based on Liu Cixin’s bestselling trilogy, Remembrance of Earth’s Past, a sci-fi epic about an alien invasion. 3 Body Problem debuts on Netflix March 21. However, this week at SXSW in Austin, Fast Company got an inside look at what went into the show during a panel discussion, featuring Benioff, Weiss, and Alexander Woo, who all...
Netflix is about to find out whether it can get its own "Game of Thrones" without having "Game of Thrones." When Netflix executive Peter Friedlander finished reading the popular Chinese science-fiction trilogy "Remembrance of Earth's Past" in 2016, he was sure it would be a great TV show. The books, in which Earth is faced with an alien invasion, told an epic, high-stakes story with intricate world-building, time-jumping and powerful themes. Three years later he found a team of filmmakers who...
This adaptation of the acclaimed sci-fi novel by Chinese author Liu Cixin has Thronesian qualities but lacks star power and effective world-building
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