After it was stuck in the hell of development for years, an adaptation of the popular winning novel by Hugo Cixin Liu The problem of the three bodies He had finally found a home on Netflix with Game of Thrones‘ David Benioff and DB Weiss are attached to write and produce executive. But now the project is facing a different kind of backstage drama.
Although production has not yet begun for the Netflix series, The problem of the three bodies it is already shaped by the strange drama that follows reports that executive producer Lin Qi was poisoned by one of his colleagues from Yoozoo Group – the Chinese game developer he currently owns The problem of the three bodiesproduction rights and also happens to be the producer Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming.
As Hollywood Reporter notes, on Wednesday, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau accessed the Weibo page with an announcement describing how, after Qi was hospitalized earlier this month, his doctors suspected that he could have been poisoned, leading to a investigation that led to his arrest.
“Following the call, the police started an investigation. According to the on-site investigations and subsequent interviews, the police found that a suspect named Xu, who is a colleague of the victim Lin, was most likely the perpetrator, “the post described. “Suspect Xu has been arrested and investigations are ongoing.”
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Although the police station did not fully share the suspect’s name, South China Morning Post reports that an executive named Yao Xu was recently elected to oversee Yoozoo’s three-body universe, a unit focused on other projects based on The problem of the three bodies. Although Yoozoo initially planned to produce both film and game adaptations of the story, both failed to materialize and it was unclear whether The problem of the three bodies would ever hit the screen until early this fall, when Yoozoo moved into a partnership with Netflix.
Although it is not known what could have motivated the crime (THR shows “A dispute between the executive ranks of the Chinese entertainment company” and finds that unspecified poison was administered through a cup of tea) reports that Qi is recovering and is in stable condition. There is also no word on how or if these events could affect the future The problem of the three bodies series.
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