Just days ahead of the premiere of their sci-fi television show, 3 Body Problem, on Netflix, showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss of Game of Thrones fame have revealed that they are already working on a second season for the series with co-showrunner Alexander Woo.
An apocalyptic sci-fi spectacle, 3 Body Problem is a series adaptation of the bestselling novels by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. “A young woman’s fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time to a group of brilliant scientists in the present day. As the laws of nature unravel before their eyes five former colleagues reunite to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history,” reads the show’s synopsis.
In an interview with Collider, the showrunners said that there is enough and more to make a second season of the show. “For Season 2, we’ve got better than a rough idea. We’re much farther along with that plan than rough-idea stages. From there on out it becomes, you know, the farther away things get the hazier your view of them is. But there, in the third book, there are so many amazing landmarks, in terms of scenes and situations and events that we can see pretty clearly, that we know, we’re not completely sure how our characters are gonna get to that place, but we know they gotta get to that place. Because that place and that place and that place are the reason we picked these books up and wanted to adapt them in the first place,” said Benioff.
The showrunner added that while the first season brings to life Liu’s first book, “The Three-Body Problem,” the subsequent season is planned to tackle the second book, “The Dark Forest.” “The third book “Death’s End” is massive. It’s twice as long, I think, as the other two books. So maybe that’s one season, maybe it’s two. But, you know, I think we’d need at least three, maybe four seasons to tell the whole story,” Collider quoted Benoiff.
3 Body Problem marks the return of the duo, popularly known as David and Dan, since the controversial conclusion of Game of Thrones in 2019.
3 Body Problem stars Jess Hong, John Bradley, Benedict Wong, Eiza Gonzalez, Jovan Adepo and Liam Cunningham, among others. The series premieres March 21 on Netflix.
