By Netflix’s lavish new sci-fi series “3 Body Problem” premieres this coming week, a project that sees the teaming of “Game of Thrones” showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss with “True Blood” producer Alexander Woo.
The series is based on Liu Cixin’s Hugo Award-winning novel trilogy which runs from the 1960s on Earth until the end of time in the distant fringes of the universe. Unlike ‘Thrones’, there’s an ending in place that has already been written and that the filmmakers can adapt directly.
Speaking with Collider recently, Benioff confirms that the first two seasons of the show are adapting the first two volumes of the book trilogy fairly faithfully. That begs the obvious question as to how soon could work begin on a second season.
Woo surprisingly revealed: “We’re doing it now” before Weiss further went on to explain how far along they are:
“For Season 2, we’ve got better than a rough idea. We’re much farther along with that plan than rough idea stages. From there on out it becomes, you know, the farther away things get the hazier your view of them is.
But there, in the third book, there’s so many amazing landmarks, in terms of scenes and situations and events that we can see pretty clearly, that we know, we’re not completely sure how our characters are gonna get to that place, but we know they gotta get to that place.
Because that place and that place and that place are the reason we pick these books up and wanted to adapt them in the first place.”
So when could the second season actually begin shooting? If things go as expected it reportedly could begin filming as early as this Fall. He also says the third novel, which is considerably longer than the first two, will require a different approach:
“The third book is massive. It’s twice as long, I think, as the other two books. So maybe that’s one season, maybe it’s two. But, you know, I think we’d need at least three, maybe four seasons to tell the whole story.”
Benioff adds that the last page of the books is “the best final image we’d encountered in a sci-fi saga like this” and they are ‘desperate’ to get to that end and convey that image on screen.
Netflix premieres “3 Body Problem” on March 21st.
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