Culture news The most ambitious sci-fi series is coming to Netflix in 2024: a literary bestseller is at the origin
Next March, the most anticipated series of the year will be broadcast on Netflix. A new trailer has just appeared for the occasion.
It will probably be one of the strongest programs on the Netflix platform in 2024: The series The 3-Body Problem is the adaptation of the eponymous work by Liu Cixin, which is quite simply considered a classic of SF literature . The show has been entrusted to some prestigious talents: the duo David Benioff and DB Weiss, who are the showrunners of the cult series Game of Thrones, and the screenwriter and producer Alexander Woo, already seen in the credits of True Blood.
The story is that of a young woman who lives in China in the 1960s and whose disastrous decision will have terrible consequences. This is how we will follow humanity’s first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. “When the laws of nature inexplicably unravel before the eyes of a tight-knit group of brilliant scientists, they join forces with an unyielding detective to confront the greatest threat in human history.“, we can read in a synopsis shared by our colleagues at Allociné. In the cast, you will find in particular Benedict Wong, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Alex Sharp, Jess Hong, Saamer Usmani, Eiza González, Marlo Kelly, Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Sea Shimooka, Zine Tseng and Jonathan Pryce.
Over the course of eight episodes, The 3-Body Problem immerses audiences in mysteries and shocking discoveries, before potentially catastrophic consequences impact life as we know it – Netflix
New trailer for the event series
As the broadcast date of March 21 slowly approaches, communication seems to be accelerating around the series, Netflix unveiling this week a new trailer filled with mystery while a whole group of scientists has disappeared. The broadcaster also published on his official blog a complete guide to the characters and everything you need to know about the adaptation before starting the series, also discussing all the notable differences between the original work and the Netflix program. “What we hope to do is bring the experience of the novel to the screen, even if it’s not necessarily the exact details. What remains, we hope, is the sense of wonder and the sense of scope, of scale, where the problems are no longer just those of an individual or even a nation, but those of an entire species“, it is explained there.