David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, after adapting the fantastic saga of A Song of Ice and Fire with Game of Thrones, enjoys a challenge. They don't want original ideas, they want to bring intelligent, adult and ambitious literary material to the screen. And, whoever thought that the work of the American George R.R. Martin was impossible to translate into audiovisual material, now it's time for a bigger challenge: The Three-Body Problem by Chinese writer Cixin Liu, which has its final trailer.
The official synopsis is as follows: “The fateful decision of a young woman in China in the 60s has repercussions on the present through time and space. When the laws of nature inexplicably unfold before her eyes, a tight-knit group of brilliant scientists collaborates with an unorthodox police officer to confront the greatest threat in human history.
Weiss and Benioff have created the series with Alexander Woo, responsible for The Terror. And, as the images show, The Three Body Problem could entail a slight (or not) Westernization of the plots and cast from the very beginning, taking into account that the beginning of the trilogy is deeply rooted in Chinese history. and the idiosyncrasy of the Asian giant.
Among the characters, three figures stand out, not least because of their connection to Game of Thrones: John Bradley, Liam Cunningham and Jonathan Pryce. But there is also Jovan Adepo, Rosalind Chao, Eiza González, Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, Alex Sharp, Sea Shimooka, Zine Tseng, Saamer Usmani and Benedict Wong, known for his involvement in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Wong, the right hand of Doctor Strange.
The images allow us to predict a work in which Netflix has invested the necessary budget to make it shine. Benioff and Weiss will not have to earn the generous budget as in their early days of Game of Thrones, where they had to ration the amounts allocated to visual effects and large production deployments.
How are they going to combine the ambitious plots with Cixin Liu's obsession with turning physics, mathematics and technology into fundamental pieces of the story? Starting March 21, the public will be able to clear their doubts.
