3 Body Problem has two extra acts to go.
The Netflix drama about humanity’s battle to unite in defiance of an alien invasion that’s zeroing-in on our world from mild years away, has been renewed by the streamer for not one, however two extra seasons—promising viewers a full conclusion to the survival battle between cosmic civilizations.
Plans for extra episodes had been already underway, however a dedication to each a second and third chapter was introduced by showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo at a for-your-consideration award season panel for the Television Academy on Friday night.
3 Body Problem, which debuted in March, was the primary return to massive scale fantasy storytelling for Benioff and Weiss after concluding eight seasons of Game of Thrones for HBO. Woo joined the pair after serving as showrunner on 2019’s The Terror and dealing as a producer and author on Manhattan and True Blood. The trio are at present engaged on scripts for seasons two and three of the invasion drama, based mostly on the Remembrance of Earth’s Past sequence of novels by Cixin Liu.
“There are three books. There are three bodies. So we always thought three seasons made the most sense,” Weiss stated. “We knew what more or less what we needed in terms of hours to tell the story the way we felt it needed to be told. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
“The very last page of Cixin Liu’s epic is one of the best last pages I’ve ever read, and it kind of destroyed me when I read it,” Benioff added. He stated he and Weiss completed the final of the novels collectively on a flight from Osaka, Japan, to Los Angeles earlier than committing to make the primary season. “He came over to my seat and said, ‘We’re doing this, right?’ I said, ‘Yeah, we’re doin’ this.’ So, the idea that we get to go to that last page gives me great joy.”
The sequence favored heady philosophizing and existential hand-wringing slightly than the explosions and motion typical of alien assault tales, and the beings threatening the planet are by no means seen, speaking with inhabitants of Earth by digital simulations and inexplicable science-defying miracles. 3 Body Problem proved to be a gradual burn, difficult viewers with its puzzling story however benefiting from sturdy phrase of mouth as the total scale of its story grew to become clear. Forbes reported that the present “dominated the entire streaming industry at the end of March,” citing a Neilsen’s ranking report that the present had been watched for a collective 1.79 billion minutes after solely a month on the air.
Woo stated it was 4 years of labor from once they first joined forces to make the primary season till its completion. He joked that the second season can be prepared, “next month.”
While they do not have agency dates to announce for once they’ll begin filming and when the present may return to the air, Woo promised the second season completion “will go sooner.”