Lin Qi, president and CEO of Yoozoo Group and producer of The Three Body Problem series, died at the age of 39 after being poisoned by a colleague who is currently in Shanghai police custody.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the poisoning was preceded by a dispute between the Chinese entertainment company. Lin was poisoned with a cup of tea on December 16 and died on Christmas Day.
A statement from the Shanghai Public Security Bureau said Lin had been hospitalized on December 17 and that the center had been poisoned. “Based on the on-site investigations and subsequent interviews, the police found that a suspect named Xu, who is the victim’s co-worker, was the most likely perpetrator,” the statement said. “The suspect has been arrested and investigations are continuing,” the letter added.
Lin founded Yoozoo Group in 2009 and was the producer of the Netflix series The Three-Body Problem, a new project from the creators of Game of Thrones, DB Weiss and Dave Benioff. This will be the first work of both after the result of the HBO series. Fiction is based on the series of novels written by Lin Cixin. The trilogy began in 2008 with The Problem of the Three Bodies and later The Dark Forest (2008) and The End of Death (2010) were released.