BEIJING (XINHUA) – The highly anticipated Chinese television adaptation of author Liu Cixin’s Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem is “coming soon”, according to a trailer released on Wednesday (Nov 3).
Known as Three-Body, the upcoming series is on a list of dramas to be released in 2022, major Chinese online streaming platform Tencent Video announced on Wednesday, without providing a specific release date.
The series stars Zhang Luyi and Yu Hewei, and is directed by Yang Lei.
The Three-Body Problem is the first book in a sci-fi trilogy that revolves around physicist Ye Wenjie’s contact with the Trisolaran civilisation living in a three-sun system, and follows the centuries-long clashes between earthlings and the aliens.
Movie and series adaptations of the critically acclaimed trilogy have been greatly anticipated by Chinese sci-fi fans, and many Chinese netizens follow news about the adaptations eagerly.
The Wandering Earth, another sci-fi novel by Liu, became a blockbuster film in 2019 and raked in a Chinese box office total of 4.68 billion yuan (S$990 million).
