We’re inching ever nearer to 3 Physique Downside’s premiere on Netflix, and right this moment, meaning one other glimpse on the sci-fi adaptation. Whereas the earlier trailer centered on the extremely immersive digital actuality sport on the core of the story, the newest clip focuses on one thing completely different: the thriller. Mainly, an entire bunch of scientists have gone lacking, and Benedict Wong’s character is attempting to determine what all of it means.
The present, in fact, is predicated on the novel by Cixin Liu (which was simply the primary a part of a trilogy), and Netflix describes the premise thusly:
The story begins in Nineteen Sixties China when a younger girl makes a fateful resolution that reverberates throughout area and time into the current day. When the legal guidelines of nature as we all know them inexplicably unravel, a tight-knit group of sensible scientists should be part of forces with an unflinching detective to cease humanity’s biggest risk.
It options a superb solid — along with Wong, there’s Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, Alex Sharp, Sea Shimooka, Zine Tseng, Saamer Usmani, and Jonathan Pryce — and is being helmed by showrunners Alexander Woo, David Benioff, and D.B. Weiss (the previous duo being finest identified for one more epic adaptation with Recreation of Thrones on HBO). In a submit on Netflix’s Tudum web site, Woo talked a bit about how the crew is approaching shifting 3 Physique Downside from guide to tv.
“What we hope to do is to convey the expertise — if not essentially the precise particulars — of the novel onto the display,” he defined. “What stayed, we hope, is the sense of wonderment and the sense of scope, of scale, the place the issues are not simply the issues of a person or perhaps a nation, however of a complete species.”
The brand new trailer reveal was truly a part of CES 2024 — which makes a sure form of sense given 3 Physique Downside’s modern, futuristic VR headset. The present begins streaming on March twenty first.
