Netflix’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ Coming In 2023
During yesterday’s Netflix Tudum presentation, the company revealed that a series based on Liu Cixin’s sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem will be released next year.
Behind the production are David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, producers of the original Game of Thrones, working exclusively for Netflix after a project that didn’t work out for HBO. Benioff and Weiss say filming has wrapped and they are now heading into the next phase of the project: post-production, with the goal of releasing the series at an unspecified 2023 date.
The series has significant ambitions, with an international cast spanning no less than 11 countries, and attempts to set the tone for a production that says just that: the union of all the countries of the globe with a common purpose. The series will cover, like the book, a long period of time that passes from the first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization to the end of the world.
The series has significant ambitions, with an international cast spanning no less than 11 countries, and attempts to set the tone for a production that says just that: the union of all the countries of the globe with a common purpose. The series will cover, like the book, a long period of time that passes from the first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization to the end of the world.
The video featured on Tudum talked about a “visual feast” and a series that uses “revolutionary” technologies to visualize concepts that the genre has so far struggled with. Of course, expectations are very high, and the prestige of Liu Cixin’s literary precedent The Three-Body Challenge is an additional challenge for this ambitious series.
