The creators of the Game of Thrones TV series are adapting the acclaimed Chinese sci-fi trilogy The Three-Body Problem for a new Netflix series, the streamer announced Tuesday, marking the first project from their reportedly $200 million deal.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the minds behind bringing “Game of Thrones” to life on the small screen, have set their sights on a new project.
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The Emmy winners announced on Tuesday that they have teamed up with Netflix and Alexander Woo (“The Terror: Infamy”) to write and produce another sci-fi TV series based on “The Three-Body Problem” trilogy of novels by Chinese author Liu Cixin.
The story is about humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization.
“Liu Cixin’s trilogy is the most ambitious science-fiction series we’ve read, taking readers on a journey from the 1960s until the end of time, from life on our pale blue dot to the distant fringes of the universe,” Fox News quoted Weiss and Benioff as saying in a press statement.
“It is a great honor as an author to see this unique sci-fi concept travel and gain fandom across the globe and I am excited for new and existing fans all over the world to discover the story on Netflix,”
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“I set out to tell a story that transcends time and the confines of nations, cultures, and races; one that compels us to consider the fate of humankind as a whole. It is a great honor as an author to see this unique sci-fi concept travel and gain fandom across the globe and I am excited for new and existing fans all over the world to discover the story on Netflix,” he added.
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In August 2019, Benioff and Weiss signed a reported $200 million production deal with Netflix to exclusively make content for the streaming service.
The trilogy’s success has been credited with making sci-fi mainstream in China. In the first book, which takes place during China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to contact aliens. The alien civilization plans to invade Earth and some humans plan to welcome the aliens while others plan to fight the invasion