"Douban scored 8 points", "the highest score of domestic science fiction drama Douban", and the transcript of the TV series "Three-Body Problem" that took seven years to create was recognized.
Produced by CCTV, Tencent Video, Three-Body Universe, Migu Video, and Linghe Culture, the TV series "Three-Body Problem" produced by Linghe Culture has received a lot of praise and high ratings as soon as it was broadcast. Within 1 hour of the show's launch, the popularity value on Tencent Video's station exceeded 25,000, becoming the fastest episode on Tencent Video's broadcast to exceed 20,000, breaking the record for the popularity value of Tencent Video dramas on the first day. Douban scored more than 100,000 people, with a score of 8.0, which rose to 8.1 an hour later. In the early morning of the day after it was broadcast, the show had risen to the top 1 real-time popularity of Maoyan on the whole network.
| Restore the temperament of the original work, balance reality and science fiction "double landing"
The TV series "Three-Body Problem" is adapted from the first "Once Upon a Time on Earth" in Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem", the drama version of "Three-Body Problem" does not "sci-fi for the sake of science fiction", does not take great strides to attract the audience's attention and integrates classic elements such as the three-body fleet, two-way foil strike, water drops, and space immigration city, but unfolds layer by layer according to the narrative logic in the original work. Therefore, in the adaptation of the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem", the most testing thing for the production team is the balance between reality and science fiction, the portrayal of characters and the presentation of a grand world view.
In 2016, Linghe Culture won the production rights of the "Three-Body Problem" project, and immediately began preparations, and the preliminary work of the script lasted 4 years. Bai Yiqing, producer and chief producer of the TV series "Three-Body Problem", founder and CEO of Linghe Culture, said that "Three-Body Problem" has made more than 20 versions of the script plan alone, tried all the methods as much as possible, experienced a very collapse and grinding time, and finally negotiated and decided to closely follow the original story line at the creation meeting attended by the platform, copyright owner and original author Liu Cixin.
"All we can do is to conform to the character temperament and image given by the original book as much as possible, although the process of film and television is very difficult, but I am very happy to have this opportunity to do such a project, and a great work is worth our investment." Bai Yiqi said.
Cai Jia, the producer of the play, said that for the creation of "The Three-Body Problem", "we are full of awe, and I myself like this work of teacher Liu Cixin very much, and I am often shocked by the magnificent worldview cosmology he describes, and I am excited and apprehensive to be fortunate enough to participate in this work."
It is true that "The Three-Body Problem", as a world-class S+ level IP, is difficult to shoot and produce.
| From 40 degrees above zero to 40 degrees below zero, the "double persistence" of production and creation
"In order to present a good effect when shooting the three-body problem, I didn't hold back again, and even ran to the Black River at minus 40 degrees." "Three-Body Problem" producer Cai Jia said.
The filming conditions of "The Three-Body Problem" are extremely difficult, the play started in Ningbo, and was filmed in Zhoushan, Hengdian, Beijing, Heihe, Tianjin, Hebei, Hangzhou and other places, from 40 degrees above zero to 40 degrees below zero. The production team even went to the Beijing positron collision station and the National Nanoscience Center to shoot, and became the first film and television crew to shoot here.
It is worth mentioning that "The Final Note", known as the "best word-of-mouth work of the pirate pen series", is one of Cai Jia's representative works as a producer, and the play is also traveled to Xishuangbanna and other places for real-life shooting, which has received the original fans crazy CALL, and was also praised by the original fans "The production of small notes has this taste". And live-action shooting is often the existence that can be avoided in the production of film and television dramas, and this time "The Three-Body Problem" chose real-life shooting again, which can also see the intentions of the production team.
The difficulty of filming "The Three-Body Problem" is objective and obvious to all. From the perspective of content, this requires the main creator to know the original work very well, understand the characters, understand the concept that the original work wants to convey, and string the entire story together, while ensuring logic, without redundancy and elaboration, passers-by and the audience can also understand.
According to Cai Jia, "The Three-Body Problem" involves a total of about 200 scenes, and all the original famous scenes are basically restored. "Except for the interior of the Red Bank base and the operations center, which were built, all other exterior scenes were shot live-action.
| "Soaking" and "dehydration", science fiction with technology and rigorous "double rudder"
While the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" attaches importance to realistic expression, it does not forget the importance of visual effects to science fiction works, and even the world view in the game is constructed in an easy-to-understand manner, which not only restores the famous scenes in the original work, but also adds a lot of details, making the shock of these scenes more upgraded. The frequent occurrence of the constant era and the chaotic era faintly reveal the operation law of the three-body world. The "immersion" and "dehydration" of the three-body people, from the slide of the "dry warehouse" to the "big pool", I believe that every audience can feel the rationality and tragedy of the three-body civilization in the harsh environment.
Cai Jia said that in order to make the audience feel closer to the game world described in the book, the crew chose to use the method of scanning motion capture, and the large-scale use of the "Three-Body Problem" TV series is also more stringent, which is a challenge at the technical level and a very bold attempt. In the previously officially released chronicle video, it was found that many big coffee guests in the film and television industry such as Guo Jingyu, Liang Zhenhua, Ma Dong, Gao Yalin and so on also participated in motion capture.
Bai Yiqian also admitted that the shooting of "The Three-Body Problem" was an unprecedented difficulty. At the beginning of the story, the scientist suicide case is a suspense drama, the three-body game is pure CG, the Red Bank base is a period drama, the guzheng action belongs to suspense plus science fiction, dismantling is equivalent to 4 dramas, all the settings of the scene have to be made 4 sets, and the difficulty of stacking up will be very high.
In order to restore the rigorous content, the producer also found dozens of scientists to hold two or three seminars for exchange and learning, including dozens of experts and scholars from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Space Science Center, the National Astronomical Observatory, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Nanjing University and other universities and research institutes. There are even physicists who posted after seeing the "Three-Body Problem" TV series that they are completely in line with their scientific research work environment, praising the producer for "very attentive, full of details, praise".
| "XP System" and "Chiko Road", the details of creation are well documented
Anyone who has read the original book knows that the world view of "The Three-Body Problem" is very grand, in which the characters, scenes, and regions are different, from the production point of view, it is necessary to restore the scenes in the original work, the time span is large, from the 70s of the last century to 2007, from the real world to the three-body game, the difficulty in production is self-evident.
But the main creative team did not give up the details, nor did they relax the requirements, the story of "The Three-Body Problem" was set in 2007, and the CCTV headquarters building under construction in the play, the XP system of the computer, and the popular "Rainbow Cat Blue Rabbit" animation series at that time made many netizens praise.
More netizens found that the lens design during the filming of the series was "Chiko's perspective", and the producer Fang Linghe Culture also responded to the interaction in time on the official broadcast, which was well received by fans. "At the beginning of the project, all the main creative teams reached a great consensus on this matter, and we all tried to make it as evidence-based as possible, which is Linghe's habit as always." Cai Jia said.
There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers, and as the opening drama of 2023, the TV series "The Three-Body Problem" has been "reviewed" by more than 100,000 viewers. If "The Three-Body Problem" is an exploration of domestic sci-fi dramas, it is an unprecedented deep dive into the hinterland. The final results of "The Three-Body Problem" show that science fiction is not out of reach, and domestic science fiction can also move people's hearts.
| Persistence and awe, Linghe's hardcore production logic
With the popularity of the TV series "Three-Body Problem", on the relevant hot search square, you can see many viewers posting that "the company behind "Three-Body Problem" is Linghe Culture, as an original fan then I rushed", "Linghe is the light of the original fan", "S+IP adaptation has Linghe".
Linghe Culture is known in the industry for "attaching importance to content and innovative production". From "Lao Jiumen" and "Sand Sea" to "If I Didn't Meet You", "Golden Eyes", "Final Notes", "Royal Gift", and then to "The Three-Body Problem", which took seven years of hard work, in just a few years, the company has several S-grade film and television works with more than 8 points, and has also rapidly grown into a first-line production company in the industry.
Linghe Culture always insists on deeply cultivating content, whether it is in IP adaptation, it always adheres to the "adaptation to restore the temperament of the original work as the first meaning", or in the production of "process front", "technology empowerment", "attention to details" and "multi-bit linkage" and other modes of effective combination. It is true that when this set of creative processes is stable and there is less likely to be a relatively large inversion in quality, then you can do more refinement to this process, that is, achieve finer granularity.
As Cai Jia, who has won the honors of "Best Producer of the Busan International Film Festival Online Film and Television Festival" and "China's Top Five Young Creative Producers", before serving as the producer of "The Three-Body Problem", she already had many high-reputation and high-level project experience such as "Lao Jiumen", "Sand Sea" and "Final Note".