(Observer News)
On the 20th local time, Netflix announced the first director of the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem", and Zeng Guoxiang, a Hong Kong-based director who has directed "July and Ansheng" and "Young You", will direct the first episode of content, setting the tone for the whole drama. The cast has not yet been announced, and earlier there were reports that Mexican actress Elsa Gonzalez confirmed the role, and the role is undecided.
As soon as the news came out, although Zeng Guoxiang held two works with extremely high gold content, he had never had experience in related themes, whether he could control science fiction, which inevitably aroused doubts. And the appearance of Aisha Gonzalez is even more puzzling: is the background of this story still in China?
Pictured from Netflix's media outlet Netflix queue
In September last year, the copyright holders of the "Three-Body" trilogy, Three-Body Universe and Youzu Group, together with Netflix, the world's largest paid streaming platform, announced that they had reached an agreement to jointly develop and produce the "Three-Body" English series, and the original author Liu Cixin and the English translator Liu Yukun ("Three-Body I" and "Three-Body III. - Death Immortal") will jointly serve as the production consultants for the series.
In terms of the production team, the series was led by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss teamed up with Season 2 operator Alexander Woo of "Polar Evil", Ryan Johnson of "Blade Out of the Sheath" and partners Ram Bergman and Nena Rodrigue, the late Youzu chairman Lynch and the current Youzu CEO Zhao Jilong, Rosamund Pike's production company "Original Pictures" and Brad Pitt's "Plan B Entertainment" as executive producers. The show has been booked for the entire season.
Recently, the Netflix version of "Three-Body Problem" has new news. Netflix's media Netflix queue announced on the 20th that Hong Kong director Zeng Guoxiang will direct the first episode of the show, setting the tone for the whole series, in addition to he will also serve as the co-producer of the show.
Tsang directed the youth-themed films "July and Ansheng" (mainland box office 167 million yuan) and "Young You" (1.558 billion yuan), the former gave birth to the "double egg yolk" film queen, and the latter almost swept the main awards of the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Netflix did not explain the reason for choosing Zeng Guoxiang as the director, according to The HollywoodReporter and other foreign media reports, Zeng Guoxiang's "Young You" was nominated for the 93rd Academy Award for Best International Film, which attracted widespread attention.
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Although the reputation and box office of these two directed works are quite good, Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" is very different from the theme and content of these two youth films, and he has no experience in related works in his past experience, and whether Zeng Guoxiang can control the science fiction theme has caused many questions from mainland netizens.
However, in an interview in 2019, Zeng Guoxiang revealed that he was developing a science fiction theme work and a minority theme at that time. He said that he will try to shoot multiple types of films, without fixing his own style, and is still slowly groping for what type of film he is suitable for, looking for a subject with feelings.
At present, the full cast of the Netflix version of "Three-Body" has not yet been announced, and Mexican actress Elsa Gonzalez, who has participated in "Alita: Battle Angel", "Fast and Furious: Special Operations", "Blood Warrior", "Godzilla vs King Kong", has confirmed the appearance, and the role is undecided.
However, this news makes the fans even more confused: if a group of foreigners starred, is the background of the story still in China?
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