The San-Ti may not be arriving on Earth for another 400 years. But, thankfully, you don’t have to wait that long for more 3 Body Problem episodes.
During the official Television Academy 3 Body Problem panel at the Netflix FYSEE space at Sunset Las Palmas in Los Angeles, executive producers, showrunners, and writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones) and Alexander Woo (The Terror, True Blood) confirmed the mind-bending sci-fi drama will return for Season 2 and 3.
Benioff, Weiss, and Woo shared that they’re excited to finish telling the story that they intended. “We included a lot of what we loved from the [novels by Cixin Liu] in Season 1, but the vast majority of reasons we wanted to make this show are in Season 2,” said Weiss. “We always wanted to get to the final page of the third book, and it’s really, really thrilling to us that we will get to do just that.”
Moderated by Vanity Fair senior Hollywood correspondent Anthony Breznican, the panel also included Benedict Wong who plays Da Shi, Jess Hong who stars as Jin Cheng, Zine Tseng who plays Young Ye Wenjie, Liam Cunningham who plays Thomas Wade, John Bradley who plays Jack Rooney, and Alex Sharp who plays Will Downing, as well as director Derek Tsang, production designer Deborah Riley, casting director Nina Gold, VFX producer Steve Kullback, and composer Ramin Djawadi.Netflix’s chief content officer Bela Bajaria confirming the news. At that time, the executive producers shared a statement saying that, “Ever since we read the last page of Cixin Liu’s magnificent trilogy, we hoped we’d be able to bring the audience to the end of the universe with us. Here we go!”
Peter Friedlander, Netflix’s vice president of scripted series (US and Canada), added: “The extraordinary 3 Body Problem, brought to life with the deft hands of Benioff, Weiss, and Woo will soar to never-before-seen heights as they tackle the rest of the mind-blowing journey through Death’s End. Their brilliant vision as storytellers is matched by their amazing partnership — and, just like the fans, we can’t wait to see what they have in store.”
What is 3 Body Problem about?
Based on the bestselling novels by Cixin Liu, 3 Body Problem spent three weeks at No. 1 on Netflix and seven weeks in the Top 10, and it reached the Top 10 in 93 countries. The series explores how humanity chooses to respond to its gravest threat.
Starting off during China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, the series introduces Ye Wenjie (Tseng and later Chao), a young woman who’ll go on to make a fateful decision that reverberates across space and time into the present day. When the laws of nature inexplicably unravel, a tight-knit group of brilliant scientists known as the Oxford Five must join forces with an unflinching detective and a mysterious intelligence agency to save the world.
3 Body Problem also sent three songs from its soundtrack to Billboard’s Top TV Songs Chart, including Lana Del Rey’s Video Games at No.1. Books associated with the sci-fi Netflix epic — Three-Body Problem and Silent Spring — appeared on Amazon’s Most Sold Chart within days of the series’ debut and The Three-Body Problem returned to the The New York Times Best Seller list. The book also recently topped The New York Times’ Audio Fiction list with The Three-Body Problem coming at No. 6 for the month of May 2024.
