Liu Cixin's award winning sci-fi trilogy is getting adapted into a webseries by the directors of the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' adaptation.
The series was written in Chinese in the 2000s and translated to English by award winning author Ken Liu in the 2010s. It became the first Asian novel to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel and it was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Now it will be adapted into a webseries. A Chinese film adaptation was in production by 2015, but halted indefinitely soon after, so this will be the first screen adaptation.
David Benioff and DB Weiss, were creators and executive producers of the incredibly popular, award winning show 'A Game of Thrones', which they adapted from
George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire. They will be joined by the screenwriter Alexander Woo who was a part of the hit TV show True Blood, which was an adaptation of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries. With all their shared adaptation experience, they should be able to do justice to this trilogy as well.
The series follows an alternate history to Earth, where humans are in touch with aliens.
"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," David Benioff and D.B. Weiss said in a statement.
"I set out to tell a story that transcends time and the confines of nations, cultures and races; one that compels us to consider the fate of humankind as a whole," Liu said in a statement.
No date or casting has been announced as of yet.