’3 Body Problem’ Showrunners on Adapting the Unadaptable | Book to Screen

The Netflix sci-fi series “3 Body Problem” presented a number of challenges for its creators, but one of the biggest – and simplest – was merely adapting the complicated books at the root of its source material. Author Liu Cixin’s series of books were a smash hit when they were released between 2006 and 2010, winning awards and earning a spot on President Obama’s coveted reading list, but the trilogy is a dense tome that was very much written to be read, not made in real life. “There were many things in the original novels that we were excited to adapt, there were many things in the original novels that we were terrified of adapting, and usually those two were the exact same things,” co-creator and co-showrunner D.B. Weiss explained during TheWrap’s inaugural Book to Screen video series, presented by Netflix. #3bodyproblem #netflix #behindthescenes #booktoscreen #tvadaptation Subscribe to TheWrap’s YouTube: Subscribe to Our Newsletter: