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Neflix’s major sci-fi drama series “Three Body Problem” will be officially launched on March 21, 2024. Neflix earlier released an official trailer for the series, which made many book and drama fans even more excited. Why has “3-Body” become one of the most anticipated dramas this year?
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The world view of “3-Body” is very large. The story describes China in the 1960s. The protagonist is Ye Wenjie, a female graduate student majoring in astrophysics. She witnessed her father, a university physics professor, being criticized and killed by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. Involved by his father, he entered a secret national engineering agency by chance to carry out a secret project to explore the existence of aliens. Therefore, he contacted the “Trisolarans”, the residents of the star system Alpha Centauri, and since then he has made “Three-body people” The “body world” and the earth world have opened the door to contact.
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In the official trailer of “Body 3”, numbers painted in blood can be seen all over the wall, which seem to be a countdown and narrate “30 scientists must have died in the last month.” There seems to be “someone” behind everything, but no one knows who is behind the scenes. They only know that he has been monitoring and eavesdropping. At the same time, various unexplained strange phenomena occur around the world, and all scientists must work together to solve the problem.
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8 things you need to know about “Three Bodies”: adapted from the global best-selling novel
“Three-Body” is adapted from the best-selling science fiction trilogy of the same name by Chinese writer Liu Cixin – “Three-Body”, “Three-Body II: The Dark Forest”, and “Three-Body III: The Immortality of Death”. The author Liu Cixin is known as “the most noteworthy writer in the Chinese literary world in the 21st century.” The novel has been translated into many languages, and in 2015 it won the “Annual Hugo Award for Best Novel”, known as the “Nobel in Science Fiction”.
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8 things you need to know about “3B”: the team behind “Game of Thrones”
The creative team of “3 Bodies” has a great background. The screenwriters and producers are “Double D” David Benioff and DB Weiss, the creators of the HBO drama “Game of Thrones”. The two of them read the original work of “The Three-Body Problem” while promoting “Game of Thrones” in Tokyo many years ago and became very interested in it. Therefore, they took the initiative to contact Liu Cixin to discuss the details of cooperation, which led to the emergence of this drama.
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8 things you need to know about “Three Bodies”: The author serves as a production consultant
Liu Cixin, the original author, and Liu Yukun, who is responsible for the translation of the English version of the novel, will serve as production consultants for the series to make the series more original.
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8 things you need to know about “3rd Body”: Marvel hero “King” plays a major role
Detective Shi Qiang, an important character throughout the trilogy in “3-Body”, will be played by Benedict Wong, Doctor Strange’s partner in the “Marvel Universe”. The rest of the cast of the series includes: Saamer Usmani, Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, Jovan Adepo, Nozomi Shimooka, Alex Sharp, John Bradley, Eiza González, Liam Cunningham, Chia Chiu, Jonathan Pryce, Ben Schnetzer and Eve Ridley, among others. It is worth mentioning that several of them are actors from “Game of Thrones”, and “Three Bodies” will feature many faces that are familiar to fans of the show.
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8 things you need to know about “3-Body”: directed by Tsang Kwok-hsiang
Eric Tsang’s son, Eric Tsang, who won the Hong Kong Film Awards Best Director for “You Are Young”, will direct the first two episodes.
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8 things you need to know about “Three Bodies”: The plot of the Cultural Revolution will not be deleted
The original story background of “Three Bodies” was set during the Cultural Revolution. Zeng Guoxiang, who is in charge of this part, said that it is becoming increasingly difficult to depict that period in any way, but it is an important part of history, so it must be faced honestly. And it is precisely because Netflix was blocked by the mainland early that “3-Body” can avoid mainland censorship.
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8 things you need to know about “3Body”: A murder occurred during the preparation
There have been many twists and turns during the preparation of “The Three-Body Problem”. The most impressive one must be that Lin Qi, the CEO of Youzu, the online game company that owns the copyright to “The Three-Body Problem”, was suspected of being poisoned by a colleague in 2020. And Lynch is the one who sold the rights to “The Three-Body Problem” to Netflix.
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8 Things You Need to Know About “3-Body”: Release Date
The official launch date of “3-Body” is March 21, 2024. There are 8 episodes in total, each episode is 1 hour long.
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