'Game of Thrones' Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Set to Adapt Netflix's 'The Three-Body Problem' | THR News - video Dailymotion

'Game of Thrones' creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will adapt Liu Cixin's sci-fi novels.

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00:00We now know the next ambitious project to come from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and

00:04D.B. Weiss, but this time it's part of their overall deal with Netflix. The duo will team

00:09up with the Terror Infamy showrunner Alexander Wu to adapt the Hugo Award-winning novel trilogy

00:13The Three-Body Problem, which tells the story of humanity's first contact with an alien

00:18civilization. Benioff and Weiss called the trilogy the most ambitious science fiction

00:22series we've read, taking readers on a journey from the 1960s until the end of time. From life

00:28on our pale blue dot to the distant fringes of the universe. We look forward to spending the next

00:32years of our lives bringing this to life for audiences around the world. Netflix has given

00:36a series order to the project, which also counts Rian Johnson, Rosamund Pike, and Brad Pitt's Plan B

00:42among its executive producers. The Three-Body Problem is the first series order for Benioff

00:46and Weiss since they signed a nine-figure overall deal at Netflix in 2019. Wu, a veteran of True

00:51Blood and WGN America's Manhattan, signed with a streamer earlier in the year. The Three-Body

00:56Problem joins a roster of genre series at Netflix that includes hits like Stranger Things and

01:01The Witcher, among others. For more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter

01:05News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.