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[llien]

Amazon is reportedly likely to earmark $1 billion for a television series (Warning: source paywalled, alternative source) based on the ultra-popular Chinese science fiction trilogy The Three Body Problem. The American video subscription service will likely acquire the rights to the Yugo-winning, extremely popular trilogy of novels written by Liu Cixin and produce three seasons of episodes. The rights to the trilogy are currently owned by Lin Qi, the chairman of Youzu Interactive, a Chinese developer and publisher that typically focuses on online and mobile games.

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Chinese "The Three Body Problem" novel won a HUGO award in 2015

Notable mention: "three body problem" equation describing movement of a particle influenced by gravitational field of two other bodies that are fixed in space. Formulated by L. Eueler back in 1760.

 

[Scopa]

1 billion?!

Is there an English translation of these books? I’ve never heard of them, but now I am curious.

 

[finowns]

Why would it take 1 billion? I read like half of the first book and stopped, it was interesting.

 

[llien]

Is there an English translation of these books?

Yes.
The two other books by the same author are part of the same series.

 

[John Day]

1 billion US smackers, damn.

 

[Dubloon7]

is this going to be filled up with trash wire-roped flying in the sky martial arts too, like every other popular chinese movie?

 

[KonradLaw]

The price tag seems extreme, but if they think it will give tchem strong foothold in China it might be worth it.

 

[Dai Kaiju]

You can't get a foothold in china. Stop trying. If it's liked there it'll just be pirated.

 

[finowns]

I kinda don't believe this. There seems to be better ways to invest 1 billion dollars.

 

[Cleared_Hot]

Massive waste of money

 

[LOLCats]

it will probably be slow and boring like almost all the Amazon original programming.

 

[Kadayi]

That seems like an absurd amount of money to splash, even for 3 seasons.

 

[Nintendo Switch]

Never heard of the book but the plot on Wikipedia sounds like it could be something truly amazing.

That’s the budget needed to make 4 mega blockbuster movies. But to try to be a viable competitor to Netflix and HBO Now, to make it one of the must have streaming services, and to give amazon a foothold in China, I totally get why it would be worth it.