Written by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo, The Three-Body Problem is an upcoming science fiction series, made for Netflix. Benioff, Weiss and Woo are also the executive producers alongside Ram Bergman, Bernadette Caulfield, Dede Gardner, Rian Johnson, Jeremy Kleiner, Rosamund Pike, Brad Pitt, Lin Qi, Nena Rodrigue, Robie Uniacke, and Zhao Jilong.
The series is based on the novel of the same name by Liu Cixin. Benioff and Weiss announced that they were developing a television adaptation of the novel in September 2020 and casting for the series began in August 2021.
So, when is the brand new series releasing? What is the plot? Who has been cast to play the lead roles? Continue reading to know further details.
The Three-Body Problem Plot and Cast
Chinese physicist and nanomaterial researcher Wang Miao gets entangled in a vast conspiracy after state intelligence asks him to infiltrate a group known as The Frontiers of Science, which has been associated with a string of suicides among its members. Ye Wenjie is an astrophysicist who saw her father brutally murdered during the Chinese Cultural Revolution more than forty years before the main story.
After her father’s murder, she was taken to a labor camp but later conscripted because of her scientific background and sent to a secret radar base in a remote region of China. Ye’s daughter was one of the suicides Wang must investigate, and they become friends as she recounts her secret work in the base to him.
At the same time, Wang progresses through a mysterious VR game called Three Body, which takes place on an alien world with highly irregular weather and day/night cycles. The game follows the attempts of an alien race to build a functional calendar while their society is periodically destroyed by patternless waves of extreme heat and extreme cold. The object of the game is for the player to use the scientific method to help the creatures understand the nature of their world.
The cast of The Three-Body Problem will have some popular faces like Eiza Gonzalez, Benedict Wong, Tsai Chin, John Bradley, Liam Cunningham, Jovan Adepo, Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, Alex Sharp, Sea Shimooka and Saamer Usmani.
The Three-Body Problem Release Date
Production for The Three-Body Problem began in November 2021 with filming taking place in the United Kingdom and China. For now, we can expect the show to premiere sometime in 2024.
The number of episodes for the new series has not been announced yet. The show is produced by Plan B Entertainment, Primitive Streak, T-Street Television, and Three-Body Universe.
The Three-Body Problem Trailer
The developers have not released a trailer for The Three-Body Problem so far. For now, you can watch out for the official teaser below: