News culture The most ambitious science fiction series is coming to Netflix in 2024: a literary bestseller is at its origins
Next March, the most anticipated series of the year will air on Netflix. A new trailer has just been released to mark the occasion.
It will probably be one of the strongest shows on the Netflix platform in 2024: The series The 3-Body Problem is the adaptation of the work of the same name by Liu Cixin, which is simply considered a classic of SF literature. The show was entrusted to some renowned talents: the duo David Benioff and DB Weiss, showrunners of the cult series Game of Thrones, and the writer and producer Alexander Woo, who appeared in the credits of True Blood.
The story is about a young woman living in China in the 1960s whose disastrous decision will have terrible consequences. This is how we will trace 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 team up with a relentless detective to confront the greatest threat in human history.“, we can read in a summary 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 disrupt life as we know it – Netflix
New trailer for the event series
As the broadcast date of March 21st is slowly approaching, communication around the series appears to be accelerating, with Netflix unveiling a new trailer full of secrets this week while an entire group of scientists have disappeared. The station also published on his official blog