Thrones creators to adapt Chinese sci-fi trilogy for Netflix

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Los Angeles – The creators of Game Of Thrones will team up with Star Wars director Rian Johnson and Hollywood actor-producer Brad Pitt for an ambitious new Chinese sci-fi adaptation, Netflix announced Tuesday. Liu Cixin’s bestselling book trilogy The Three-Body Problem,...

Fans include former US president Barack Obama, who once said the “wildly imaginative” trilogy made “my day-to-day problems with Congress seem fairly petty – not something to worry about. Aliens are about to invade!”Billed as China’s first space-age blockbuster, it became one of the country’s highest grossing movies with over US$690 million domestically.

Tuesday’s announcement is the first confirmed project to emerge from that deal, which was reportedly worth a nine-figure sum and followed an intense bidding war between major studios. Announcing the deal last year, Benioff and Weiss said they shared a love for “the same books” as several Netflix executives.

 

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