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Joining the equation is Alexander Wu, best known for his work on the popular HBO series “True Blood.”
Like “Game of Thrones,” based on George RR Martin’s sweeping fantasy saga, Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” is based on Chinese author Liu Cixin’s best-selling sci-fi novel series of the same name, which many people believed that it could not have been filmed before the arrival of this trio. challenge.
“Sometimes we all agree and it’s easy. Sometimes we disagree, and then we have to argue about it. And for me and Dan, our experience has been that when we When people disagree, one person is usually more passionate about the argument and the person with the most passion wins.
“And when Alex joined us, we kind of kept doing the same thing. We divided everything between the three of us,” Benioff told PTI in a roundtable interview.
Benioff said that while people believe they easily divide duties when collaborating, the reality is “much looser than that”.
“We don’t fight that often. But occasionally, if there was a big battle scene, or a big murder on ‘Game of Thrones,’ that’s what we both wanted. Those fights would be about who gets to write the last half of the episode. ,” he adds.
Behind the scenes, Benioff said they would discuss every little detail before any major deaths.
“I remember the big event we had at the end of season one, when Ned Stark was decapitated. And we knew we wanted to cut the scene right before we saw his head fall off in the episode , but do you see the blade actually go into the neck or do you see it stopping just short of the neck.
“We had this long and boring battle over exactly what frame it should end on. We decided on a frame where you would just see the blade starting to enter, so that no one would think he was actually alive . We wanted people to know that Ned Stark dies here, but we didn’t want to show all the blood and spines or any of that.”
“3 Body Problem” has been described as a thrilling story that redefines sci-fi drama with a complex and layered narrative spanning hundreds and thousands of years. Considered one of the most successful books of the genre, the novel was translated into English in 2012 and became an instant hit. It became the first Asian novel to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
In the story, things pick up when a young scientist, disillusioned with humanity, decides to contact an alien civilization during 1960s China. The echo of his decision is heard in space and time.
Weiss said there is a lot of darkness in the story, which spans three books, but it also gives insight into how people learn to overcome problems and work together.
“It’s about how people learn from their mistakes and change themselves, even if they’ve made terrible mistakes in their past… We told the story based on the characters and their motivations and what they were experiencing. It tried to be based on the events that were happening in the story, rather than trying to take a top-down approach and say, ‘Okay, this is indicative of the world we’re in now.’
“3 Body Problem,” is set to launch on Netflix with its eight-episode first season on March 21, starring Si Shimuka, Benedict Wong, Tsai Chin, John Bradley, Eiza Gonzalez, Liam Cunningham, Jess Hong and Jovan Including artists like Adepo. ,
In contrast to the fantasy genre, Benioff stated that the science fiction genre has never been his “favorite genre”. But he chose “3 Body Problem” because the story is about life and about humanity trying to survive in a very cold and dark universe.
“I wasn’t necessarily attracted to it because I know anything about physics or because I care so much about particles colliding with each other. I really fell in love with the human story. That’s our biggest inspiration.” story with this television retelling.”
Wu, who is also known for his work on shows such as “Manhattan”, “Sleeper Cell”, “LAX” and “Wonderfalls”, hopes he has presented a worthy adaptation of the novel series to fans of the books. .
“That’s mostly what we did during the pandemic. David, Dan and I met for the first time in late February 2020. And then we didn’t see each other in person for the next two years. But we saw each other on Zoom every day Do this, and grapple with all the difficulties and challenges of how to tell a story that spans billions of years.
He said, “No one has ever attempted this before on television. How to tell a story with so much science in a way that no one has attempted before? And I hope we’ve found a way that’s engaging for the audience.” Be entertaining.”
“3 Body Problem”, like “Game of Thrones”, is based on a larger budget, which Wu believes was necessary due to the expansive nature of the story.
“Readers of the novel are imagining something on a larger scale, unlike anything they’ve ever read before. So the show has to give audiences an experience they’ve never seen before. And it’s going to have a big budget, in that It will cost money. If you as a reader are going to realize all the things you are imagining, it is a huge responsibility to do justice to what Liu Cixin has written,” he said.
Benioff said he hoped to reach an end to the saga through his series.
He further added, “If Netflix gives us the number of seasons needed to get to the end, people will care enough about these characters and their fates.”
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