‘Game of Thrones’ producers to adapt Chinese sci-fi trilogy for new web series
‘Game of Thrones’ co-creators David Benioff and DB Weiss will adapt a series of hit sci-fi novels – “The Three-Body Problem,” “The Dark Forest,” and “Death’s End” – by Chinese author Liu Cixin for Netflix.
‘Game of Thrones’ co-creators David Benioff and DB Weiss will adapt a series of hit sci-fi novels – “The Three-Body Problem,” “The Dark Forest,” and “Death’s End” – by Chinese author Liu Cixin for Netflix.
The streaming giant said the English-language adaptation will cover all of the three award-winning Chinese novels.
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The books narrate the story of humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization. Liu’s trilogy has sold at least 8 million copies globally since the first book was published in 2008.
“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,” David Benioff and DB Weiss said in a statement.
Benioff and Weiss will be joined by “True Blood” screenwriter Alexander Woo for the Netflix project, sources said.
For the uninitiated, David Benioff and DB Weiss signed an agreement in 2019 to direct new TV series and movies exclusively at Netflix, leaving behind their partnership with HBO.