‘3 Body Problem’ Creators Say Season 2 “Gets Really Wild In The Best Possible Way” — Contenders TV
deadline.comCixin Liu’s 3 Body Problem trilogy was considered unadaptable, but D.B. Weiss, David Benioff and Alexander Woo did it for Netflix.
Even though Season 1 is streaming, that doesn’t mean they’ve solved Season 2. The trio joined Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday to discuss the adaptation, and Weiss explained why continuing the show poses even more creative problems. “This kind of eases you into the world of the story but the story gets really wild in the best possible way,” Weiss said. “With something that’s that wild, there are a lot of choices to be made and a lot of things to be figured out.
We’ve been putting our heads together to figuring them out recently especially the past couple months.” 3 Body Problem involves scientists from around the world discovering a virtual reality video game which leads them to another intergalactic species.
The story spans past and present. The globalization of the adaptation marks a change from the books, which focused on China. RELATED: Contenders TV – Deadline’s Full Coverage “Out of necessity we needed to be the cast mostly speaking English,” Woo said. “The Chinese flashbacks were very much intact.
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