Netflix's high-profile plan to have Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss adapt Chinese writer Liu Cixin's bestselling sci-fi trilogy The Three-Body Problem is getting a challenge from a group of Republican Senators.
In a letter sent to Netflix chief content officer and co-CEO Ted Sarandos Wednesday, the lawmakers allege that the streamer would be "normalizing" China's mass imprisonment of Uyghur Muslims in the country's northwestern province of Xinjiang if it were to work with Liu.
The senators quote from a lengthyinterview Liu gave to The New Yorker in 2019, in which he responded to a question about China's mass internment of Muslims by saying, "Would you rather that they be hacking away at bodies at train stations and.
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