From Game Of Thrones to 3 Body Problem: Creators go global yet keep Chinese representation

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The Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's sci-fi novel is executive-produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

Jess Hong and John Bradley in 3 Body Problem, which is based on the Remembrance Of Earth’s Past trilogy by Chinese science-fiction author Liu Cixin.

Set primarily in China, the first book, The Three-Body Problem, was the first Asian winner of the prestigious Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel. It begins, as Liu’s first book does, in 1960s China, with a scientist named Ye Wenjie, played at different ages by actresses Zine Tseng and Rosalind Chao.

“Some of the thinking was legal and contractual – we had the rights to do the English-language adaptation, so that dictated a fair amount,” he says. Two of the main characters are of Chinese descent: Oxford-educated physicist Jin Cheng , who is a Chinese New Zealander, and Chinese-British intelligence officer Da Shi .Asked if this is a nod to the source material, Woo, who is Chinese American, says: “We wanted to represent the global population as much as possible, and a large part of the world is Chinese.”

The creators are asked what they think of the US congressional hearings in 2023, where witnesses claimed that American government agencies have been hiding information about unidentified flying objects .

 

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