David Benioff and DB Weiss have found the subject of their next series, for which they signed already a year ago for Netflix.
It will be an adaptation of the literary trilogy by Chinese director Liu Cixin, dealing with humanity's first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization.
You will have to be patient to discover the new series from the creators of
Game of Thrones
.
This will
in principle
not before 2022. But David Benioff and DB Weiss have nevertheless finally found the first project they will develop for Netflix.
"Finally", because the two creators of the legendary
Game of Thrones
series
signed their contract with the streaming service a year ago, for a small bill of 200 million dollars.
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Meeting with an extraterrestrial civilization
And the first fruit of this collaboration will have little to do with the Game of Thrones.
Here, no white walkers, savages or fighting soldiers.
It is an adaptation of the literary trilogy of Chinese director Liu Cixin, the first part of which was
The Three Bodies Problem
appeared in 2007.
The work is about humanity's first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization.
In the 1960s, a young astrophysicist sends a message into space, and this message is intercepted by the Trisolarians, who are preparing to leave their planet, battered by its three suns.
Disgusted by all the horrors committed by man, the young woman sends them information which, she hopes, will enable them to reform the human race.