Netflix's New "Three-Body Problem" Show Divides Opinion

It seems like there’s a new adaptation of Liu Cixin‘s famous series of science fiction novels, Remembrance of Earth’s Past – more commonly referred to by the title of the first book, The Three-Body Problem – announced every week. But this one is big. 

Netflix have revealed that they’ll be turning the Hugo Award-winning trilogy into a brand new TV series. Not only that, but they’ve signed up Looper and Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, and Game of Thrones co-writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss as executive producers. Alexander Woo, whose credits include HBO drama True Blood, is also on board.

Liu — whose Wandering Earth short story was adapted into a massively successful blockbuster in 2019 — described the new project as “a great honor” in a press release from Netflix. “I have the greatest respect for and faith in the creative team adapting The Three-Body Problem for television audiences." 

Netflix are partnering with Chinese production company Yoozoo — who also have a hand in most of the other major Liu Cixin adaptations currently in the works — at a time when science fiction in China is attracting serious attention from authorities. 

“Not giving this to a domestic company to produce makes sense,” argues one user on Weibo. “Once it’s finished it’d just be randomly cut and edited by the authorities.”

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