'Game of Thrones' creators Benioff and Weiss to adapt sci-fi epic 'Three-Body Problem' for Netflix

Goodbye White Walkers. Hello, aliens.

Netflix is bringing the world of acclaimed Chinese author Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem" to life in a new series adaptation of the science fiction trilogy, the streaming service announced Tuesday. "Game of Thrones" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will take the lead on the alien contact drama, as part of their overall deal with the streaming service. The author and Ken Liu, who wrote the English translation of the first and third novels, will be consulting producers on the series.

"Liu Cixin’s trilogy is the most ambitious science-fiction series we’ve read, taking readers on a journey from the 1960s until the end of time, from life on our pale blue dot to the distant fringes of the universe," Benioff and Weiss said in a statement. "We look forward to spending the next years of our lives bringing this to life for audiences around the world.”

"Three-Body," the first novel in Cixin's "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy, jumps around in time to tell the story of humanity's first contact with an alien civilization. The series is also the first major project in Benioff and Weiss's multi-year deal with Netflix, signed last year, and the first since "Thrones" ended.

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Benioff and Weiss have had a bumpy road in defining their post-"Thrones" careers. HBO originally announced in 2017 that the writing partners would work on a series called "Confederate," an alternate history drama in which the Confederacy won the Civil War and slavery remains legal in the modern world. The announcement of the series drew intense backlash, particularly from Black activists on social media. Eventually plans for it were discarded.

Benioff and Weiss were also briefly attached to write and produce a new "Star Wars" trilogy, but left the project in late 2019.

Earlier this year they directed comedian Leslie Jones' Netflix stand-up special, "Time Machine."

Netflix did not yet announce an anticipated release date or any casting information for "The Three-Body Problem."

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