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duo has joined forces with "True Blood" writer-producer
Alexander Woo to bring Chinese author Liu Cixin's bestselling
novel "The Three-Body Problem", the first book of a trilogy, to
the screen in the new Netflix series.
"It's probably even more ambitious than 'Game of Thrones'," said
John Bradley, who played Samwell Tarly in the HBO show and now
stars as scientist-entrepreneur Jack Rooney.
"With this, we flash back in time, we're in the present, we're
in a virtual reality video game, which means we can show
anything. We were only limited by our own imaginations, really,
and that kind of scope, it's a gift," he said at the show's
London premiere on Wednesday.
"3 Body Problem" opens in Beijing in 1966 during the Cultural
Revolution and takes audiences across time and the globe - and
further. Partly set in a virtual reality game, it sees actions
taken by an astrophysics student in China carry consequences on
the entire universe.
In present-day Britain, a group of physicists, nicknamed "The
Oxford Five" seek to understand why scientific experiments
around the world are failing. They get a helping hand from
unconventional detective, Da Shi (Benedict Wong), an operative
of a secret intelligence agency.
The eight-episode series' ensemble cast includes actors Eiza
Gonzalez, Jovan Adepo, Jess Hong and Jonathan Pryce, while Brad
Pitt, Rosamund Pike and Rian Johnson are among the show's
executive producers.
"This is a story that involves science and fiction, but it's not
like crazy aliens on a crazy planet coming in with costumes.
It's, essentially, a kind of genuine threat that humanity faces
and it's how we all deal with that threat," said Pryce.
As for adapting the other two books in the trilogy, Liam
Cunningham, another "Game of Thrones" alumn who plays Thomas
Wade, said the show's creators were keeping mum on their plans.
"I've heard a couple of rumours," he said.
"I like the surprises of it and I used to love it with 'Game of
Thrones' as well. You didn't even know when you're going to die
until you got the script. It's a little unpredictable and it
keeps the interest up."
"3 Body Problem" starts streaming on Netflix on March 21.
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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