3 Body Problem fans dealt blow to renewal hopes

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The way forward for the Netflix sci-fi collection 3 Body Problem stays unsure – regardless of the present’s creators pushing forward and planning a number of additional seasons.

Adapted from a best-selling Chinese ebook trilogy, the collection rose to the highest of Netflix’s Most Watched chart when it debuted on the streaming service final month.

However, in a improvement that some have interpreted as an ominous signal for its prospects of renewal, 3 Body Problem has already been displaced from the No 1 spot.

In the UK, the collection at the moment sits behind the Guy Ritchie crime present The Gentlemen, which debuted two weeks earlier than 3 Body Problem.

Over Easter, the present additionally fell behind the non secular collection Testament: The Story of Moses, although that programme has since fallen to third.

While viewing figures are often solely launched at Netflix’s personal discretion, pundits have usually used a TV present or movie’s rating within the Most Watched chart as an indicator of recognition – with a sustained spell on the prime of the chart a hopeful indicator of renewal.

Speaking to the Inside Total Film podcast and GamesRadar+, the creators of 3 Body Problem – Game of Thrones showrunners DB Weiss and David Benioff, and True Blood’s Alexander Woo – lately said that they have been optimistic concerning the odds of renewal, and had already begun mapping out future seasons.

“Well, there’s three novels in the trilogy,” Woo mentioned. “The novels get longer and longer so I wouldn’t say it maps out exactly to three. We have some really strong ideas about what to do in a season two, and then it’s a little hazier down the line. But we want to get to the end, we want to get to the end of the trilogy, and whether that’s three or four, you know, or some other number.”

“The goal is to get to the end of the trilogy and it seems like it would map out over probably, certainly more than two seasons but beyond that, it’s hard to know exactly.”

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3 Body Problem is customized from the primary of a trilogy of novels by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Season one will be streamed now on Netflix.

In a two-star overview of the collection, The Independent wrote: “When a book is deemed ‘unadaptable’, it is almost interpreted as a challenge. Of course, no book is really unadaptable; the problem is that rendering it on screen will simply be too dull, or confusing. 3 Body Problem is somehow both. Benioff, Weiss and Woo made radical and transformative changes to the source material, but lost something integral in the process.”