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Amazon Plans Blockbuster TV Series Based On Chinese Sci-Fi Trilogy 'The Three-Body Problem' (medium.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you dept.

hackingbear writes from a report: 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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  1. Yugo winning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Yugo the Chinese version of the Hugo award?

    1. Re:Yugo winning by _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 5, Funny

      Who cares if it won a Yugo? I mean, sure, a small Yugoslavian car as a prize is impressive, but who really cares?

      --
      The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
  2. HUGO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Three Body Problem won a HUGO award: http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2015-hugo-awards/

    1. Re:HUGO by Salgak1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      See the "Sad Puppies" story. SF Fandom has diverged into factions: a "Literary" faction (which sometimes refers to itself as 'Trufandom'), which currently pretty much controls the Worldcon, the Hugo Awards, and the Nebula Awards, and a "Spaceships and Rayguns" faction (notionally, the Puppies. There are two major factions in the Puppies as well). It's getting to the point that the two factions have different cons, different preferred publishers, and distinct communities. The split is also fairly ideological, with the Trufen faction trending left, and the Puppy faction trending right

      Quick guide:
      Cons:
      Trufen: WorldCon, Wiscon, ReaderCon
      Puppies: DragonCon, LibertyCon, RavenCon, LTUE

      Publishers:
      Trufen: TOR, Orbit
      Puppies: Baen, Castalia

      Awards:
      Trufen: Nebulas, Hugos
      Puppies: Dragons

      This is not an all-encompassing list. There are also favored blogs and associated communities. . .

  3. Re: it's NOT a "TV series", ffs. by cyber-vandal · · Score: 5, Funny

    It sounds good and I will definitely watch it on my 55in streaming.

  4. Re:Will Amazon whitewash? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Normally I'm pretty uninterested in the issue (particularly with Animes, where generally the original Japanese audience isnt that concerned by it). But this would be a mess if reset into the west. Part of what makes the book so interesting is just how different the chinese world of the protagonists is. The opening chapter set during the cultural revolution would make no sense at all in america or europe. Even eastern europe had a pretty different experience with Stalin than china did with Mao.