Cixin Lius 3Body Problemtrilogy was considered unadaptable, butD.B.
Weiss,David BenioffandAlexander Woodid it forNetflix.
Even though Season 1 is streaming, that doesnt mean theyve solved Season 2.
Weve been putting our heads together to figuring them out recently especially the past couple months.
The story spans past and present.
The globalization of the adaptation marks a change from the books, which focused on China.
Out of necessity we needed to be the cast mostly speaking English, Woo said.
The Chinese flashbacks were very much intact.
It afforded us an opportunity to tell a very global story.
Humanity either comes together or doesnt come together to face an existential threat.
You dont want people to be pushing pause and hitting Wikipedia every five minutes, Weiss said.
You could do the version of that that makes people do that but it pulls people out of it.
In the book, hes explaining all this stuff to you anyway in writing.
It was a challenge that was ultimately what drew us to the project to begin with.
Weiss pointed to a scene between Jonathan Pryce and a voice on a speaker.
In addition to cracking the adaptation, the show had to cast actors to embody Lius characters.
Benioff said Benedict Wong and John Bradley were their first choices.
I think a lot of people would have just been broken by that, Benioff said.
How do you maintain that intensity again and again?
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