{"id":10148,"date":"2024-03-21T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:35:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:35:48","slug":"netflixs-3-body-problem-adapts-the-unadaptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=10148","title":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s '3 Body Problem' Adapts the Unadaptable"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Scientists keep taking their own lives, and no one knows why. That\u2019s the central mystery at the start of 3 Body Problem<\/em>, the new Netflix<\/a> series based on a trilogy of sci-fi novels<\/a> by Chinese author Cixin Liu. But it soon unfolds into something far grander: There\u2019s a mysterious VR video game, flashbacks to revolutionary China, shady billionaires, and strange cults.<\/p>\n

But really, it\u2019s all about physics. Liu\u2019s novels are beloved in China and have a smaller but similarly dedicated following among English-language readers, but they are hard science fiction\u2014heavy on concept, light on character. More than once in the series, someone resorts to wheeling out a chalkboard to make their point, and there are scenes in the books that seem impossible to film: multidimensional structures collapsing in on themselves, a computer made up of millions of soldiers, nano-wires cutting through steel, diamond, flesh.<\/p>\n

For showrunners David Benioff, D. B. Weiss<\/a>, and Alexander Woo, adapting The Three-Body Problem<\/em><\/a> for the screen presented a unique challenge. Woo was a writer on HBO\u2019s True Blood<\/em>, but Benioff and Weiss are best known for Game of Thrones<\/em><\/a>. An adaptation of George R. R. Martin<\/a>\u2019s fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>, Thrones<\/em> became a once-in-a-decade television phenomenon, but didn\u2019t quite stick the landing<\/a>\u2014in some corners of the internet the names Benioff and Weiss are on a level with Joffrey Baratheon.<\/p>\n

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