3 Body Problem Stays At No. 1 Despite Sleepy Week For Netflix TV

[ 3 Body Problem clocked another week atop Netflix‘s TV charts — though it appears to have been a slow week for the streamer’s series. The drama series from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, as well as Alexander Woo, clocked just 4.8M views in its third week at No. 1. Consider … Read more

‘3 Body Problem’ Creators Say Season 2 “Gets Really Wild”

[ Cixin 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 … Read more

Ex-Gaming Exec With Company That Owns ‘3-Body Problem’ Film Rights Sentenced To Death In China

[ A former executive at Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday in the 2020 poisoning of the company founder. The Chinese gaming company has links to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series, The 3-Body Problem. Xu Yao poisoned the food of 39-year-old company founder Lin Qi in December 2020, allegedly because … Read more

Why Barack Obama Turned Down ‘3 Body Problem’

[ David Benioff and DB Weiss, having conquered the fantasy genre with Game of Thrones, could have recruited pretty much any talent they desired for their latest project – a big-budget adaptation of Liu Cixi’s sci-fi novel, Three-Body Problem, which comes to Netflix this week. However, one person remained immune to their powers of persuasion, … Read more

Netflix Series From ‘GoT’ Creators

[ SPOILER ALERT: This post contains some details of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, set for an eight-episode launch on the streamer March 21. “Why should I get bent out of shape about what the world might look like 400 years from now,” physics research assistant Saul Durand (Jovan Adepo) says flippantly in Netflix’s 3 Body … Read more

‘Game Of Thrones’ Creators Open Up About HBO Split & Finale Rumor

[ Forget widescreen: Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss say HBO‘s one-time owner AT&T actually requested the series be shot vertically so it could be watched on cell phones. In a new article in Wall St. Journal‘s WSJ Magazine to promote their upcoming Netflix series 3 Body Problem, Benioff and Weiss open … Read more