“GoT” Producers Name New Project
“Game of Thrones” showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have announced their next TV series. Once again, they’re adapting an acclaimed series of novels — only this time in the realm of sci-fi. The duo are teaming with writer-producer Alexander Woo (True Blood) to tackle Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem trilogy, which depicts humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization. The saga’s debut book was published to considerable acclaim in China in 2008, while an English translation by Ken Liu became the first Asian novel ever to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2014. The New Yorker dubbed Liu “China’s Arthur C. Clarke,” referring to the 2001: A Space Odyssey screenwriter.
