Game of Thrones showrunners were just as baffled by adapting their new Netflix sci-fi series as they were George R.R. Martin's books
Exclusive: 3 Body Problem showrunners talk the challenge of adapting the sci-fi novel for Netflix
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Similarly to Game of Thrones, the source material is dense – which made a screen adaptation a challenge.
“It was not immediately obvious how [the books] could be turned into a TV show,” Benioff admits toTotal Film in our new issueout now. “But we knew that it was different from anything else we’d encountered. Part of the attraction was like, ‘How the hell do we do this?’ It was similar when we read [Thrones author] George R.R. Martin’s books for the first time, just thinking, ‘These books are incredible. But is it possible to do this as a TV series? Is it too big, too sprawling, too expensive?'”
Joining Weiss and Benioff in this creative hive was Alexander Woo, a former writer-producer on True Blood who acts as co-showrunner on the series. Adapting Liu’s physics-heavy trilogy – which begins with book …
