3 Body Problem debuted on Thursday, and the makers are already considering a follow-up.
Series creators DB Weiss, David Benioff (Game of Thrones duo) and Alexander Woo (True Blood) said they’ve already pretty much figured out what’s going to happen down the road.
When they were at SXSW in Austin, Texas, they spoke Collider about what fans can expect in the future.
They said that there is already an outline of new seasons and that they could probably start filming the second season in the fall of this year.
Benioff commented that the idea is for seasons one and two to largely follow the arcs of the first two volumes of Cixin Liu’s trilogy of books that inspired the show.
3 Body Problem debuted on Thursday, and the makers are already considering a follow-up. Pictured: Eiza Gonzalez as Auggie Salazar, Jess Hong as Jin Cheng, Saamer Usmani as Raj Varma
Series creators DB Weiss, David Benioff (Game of Thrones duo) and Alexander Woo (True Blood) said they’ve already pretty much figured out what’s going to happen down the road. While at SXSW in Austin, Texas, they spoke with Collider
When asked if season two was ready, Weiss said, ‘We’re doing it now.’
3 Body Problem is about a ‘fateful decision’ in 1960s China that resonates across space and time for a group of scientists in the present day, forcing them to face humanity’s greatest threat.
The Netflix synopsis reads: ‘Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.’
The stars are Eiza González, Jess Hong and Liam Cunningham.
Benioff also told Collider: ‘For season two, we have better than a rough idea. We are much further along with that plan than in rough idea stages.
“From there on out, you know, the further away things get, the more blurred your view of them becomes.
“But there, in the third book, there are so many fantastic landmarks in terms of scenes and situations and events that we can see quite clearly that we know we’re not quite sure how our characters get to that place , but we know they have to come to that place. Because that place and that place and that place is why we’re getting these books and wanted to adapt them in the first place.’
Benioff said a new approach would be necessary for the third novel in the series.
He said: ‘The third book is huge. It is twice as long, I think, as the other two books.
They said that there is already an outline of future seasons and that they could probably start shooting the second season in the fall
Benioff commented that the idea is for seasons 1 and 2 to largely follow the arcs of the first two volumes of Cixin Liu’s trilogy of books that inspired the show
When asked if season two was ready, Weiss said, ‘We’re doing it now.’ And he added that they could start shooting from the fall of 2024
3 Body Problem is about a ‘fateful decision’ in 1960s China that resonates across space and time for a group of scientists in the present day, forcing them to face humanity’s greatest threat
The Netflix synopsis reads: ‘Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges’
So maybe it’s one season, maybe it’s two. But you know, I think we need at least three, maybe four seasons to tell the whole story.’
And Benioff said the end of the trilogy is ‘beautiful’ and that ‘the last page of Cixin Liu’s epic was perhaps the best final image we had encountered in a sci-fi saga like this. It’s just incredibly moving and mind-blowing.’
It is not known how long Netflix will give the green light for the project.
Weiss added that it’s “a very labor-intensive show, and it’s not going to be any less labor-intensive.” It will not be easier to make, it will be harder to make’.
That means they can’t shoot multiple seasons at once, but if they were asked, they might be able to figure something out.
Netflix premiered 3 Body Problem on March 21.
Gonzalez, Zine Tseng and Hong attend the 3 Body Problem screening at Frameless on March 20 in London,