PRODUCTION 3 BODY PROBLEM
B efore Game of Thrones became a global phenomenon, there was a feeling fantasy was something only a niche, if loyal, audience would lap up. Now the makers of HBO’s dragon and sorcery hit aim to do the same for sci-fi naysayers. As their source material, showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss – along with Alexander Woo – chose The Three-Body Problem by Chinese novelist
Liu Cixin and turned it into an eight-hour series for Netflix. “We’ve all seen a thousand alien invasion stories,” Benioff says, “but this one’s different because it focuses on the human response to finding out we’re not alone in the universe — and the others out there are not necessarily friendly.” The ambitious story spans different decades and planes of existence, from
China’s Cultural Revolution in the sixties to contemporary Britain, New York City and a vast, epic virtual reality world. Naturally, the showrunners turned to the experience of a DOP who had shot 17 episodes of Game of Thrones to help establish the show’s visual language. “There are many elements to the first season and to what they hope would become subsequent seasons,”
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