Peter White Television EditorIt’s been a year since David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, creators of Game of Thrones, struck a mega overall deal with Netflix.
Now, they’ve set their first TV world-building project at the streamer and the first drama they’ll write since their HBO opus ended.The pair are adapting Chinese sci-fi book trilogy The Three-Body Problem, the story of humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization, written by Chinese author Liu Cixin.Benioff and Weiss have put together quite a list of creative partners for the series adaptation.Alexander Woo, co-creator of AMC’s The Terror: Infamy, who signed an overall deal with Netflix earlier this year, will write and exec produce alongside the GoT pair.
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