‘Three-Body Problem’ Author’s Military Sci-Fi Story and Chinese Rural Literary Epic Being Adapted by ‘Black Dog’ Director Guan Hu (EXCLUSIVE)

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Naman Ramachandran Chinese filmmaker Guan Hu has revealed he is currently developing an adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem” author Liu Cixin’s science fiction work “Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming” and Liu Zhenyun’s acclaimed novel “One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences.” Liu Cixin’s “Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming,” featured in the collection “To Hold Up the Sky,” dives into electronic warfare during a conflict between a resurgent Communist Russia and NATO forces.

The military sci-fi story explores the technological arms race as Russia deploys desperate measures to counter NATO’s advanced electronic capabilities.

Meanwhile, Liu Zhenyun’s “One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences,” winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011, is a sweeping meditation on loneliness spanning generations in rural China.

The novel follows two intertwined narratives: Wu Moxi, a solitary man from early 20th century Yanjin County who embarks on a journey through Shanxi, Shandong, and Hebei after losing his only true connection, and a century later, his grandson Niu Aiguo, who retraces those steps seeking the same elusive human connection.