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The creators of 3 Body Problem want to have ‘a back and forth’ with the book

The creators of 3 Body Problem are ready for the future.

Weiss, and Alexander Woo ahead of 3 Body Problem ’s premiere, they said that, while they always knew their story needed to be different, as they began reimagining narrative beats, they realized that “there was going to have to be a back and forth” between the show and Liu’s book. Netflix’s show tells a mostly similar story, but its comparatively larger cast of lead characters come together far faster than their book analogues — so much so that you don’t get to spend all that much time watching them think problems through on their own. Because Netflix’s 3 Body Problem spends so much time fleshing its characters and their dynamics out, it feels almost like the show’s real story — one that reaches much further into the future and beyond planet Earth — is only just beginning by the first season’s end.

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