Three-Body

Three-Body is a Chinese science fiction television series based on the novel The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. The series premiered on January 15, 2023. Premise In 2007, Wang Miao, one of China's leading nanomaterials experts, is enlisted by Shi Qiang, a detective who specializes in counterterrorism, in the case of strange apparent suicides in the scientific community. During the investigation, Wang Miao encounters a mysterious organization called the Frontiers of Science and proceeds to learn the truth behind how an alien world depicted in a popular video game connects with the apparent suicides and the fate of the world. Cast Zhang Luyi as Wang Miao Yu Hewei as Shi Qiang Chen Jin and Wang Ziwen as Ye Wenjie Lin Yongjian as General Chang Weisi Li Xiaoran as Shen Yufei Eric Wang as Ding Yi Kou Zhenhai as Ye Zhetai He Dujuan as Yang Dong Kenan Heppe as Mike Evans Mike Koltes as Colonel Mike Williams Production Although Tencent obtained the rights to the novels in 2008, attempts to produce a Chinese live-action adaptation of the novels began in earnest in 2015 with The Three-Body Problem film by YooZoo Film. Filming lasted for 5 months in 2015, but the final product was never released. While YooZoo Film struck a deal in September 2020 to produce their own adaptation for Netflix with Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss at the helm, work on the script for a Chinese adaptation was already underway at Tencent and took four years to complete. Shooting began in July 2020 and lasted 126 days. The Beijing Electron–Positron Collider II doubled for the particle accelerator in the series.