[ 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
[ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss did a show full of death. But one in particular resonated. Appearing on a new episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the showrunners were asked to name their favorite character death. “With Thrones, there was so much killing of good guys,” Weiss said, “and we finally got to really kill both Joffrey … Read more
[ Even without prior knowledge of Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem or the award-winning novel’s two sequels, plot points of which have already entered the TV bloodstream of 3 Body Problem, viewers anticipating the Episode 8 Season 1 finale could not possibly have expected creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo to conclude a season … Read more
[ “In nature, nothing exists alone.” If the way Chinese physicist Ye Wenjie and Mike Evans the hot rich hermit shared that line in 3 Body Problem Episode 2 (“Red Coast”) felt to you like it had more than one meaning, your payoff arrives in 1982. Mao is dead, the Cultural Revolution is over, and … Read more
[ 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
[ When it was announced that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss‘s first project after the HBO hit’s polarizing finale would be a Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s groundbreaking sci-fi masterpiece The Three-Body Problem, well, TV fans and genre nerds were understandably skeptical. Like Game of Thrones before it, Liu’s work had … Read more
[ 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
