David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
Do these names mean nothing to you?
However, we owe them the greatest success ever recorded by a series,
Game of Thrones
,
GOT
for many close friends.
Between April 17, 2011, the day of its first broadcast on HB0, and May 10, 2019, the date of its disastrous epilogue, it recorded all records: budget, audience and subscriptions, generating 2 billion dollars in profits per year for its Streamer.
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In this fairly specific genre, everything must be plausible.
How to get down from this solid gold throne?
The question arises for this tandem of creators who, after a long silence, signed a fantastic contract with Netflix.
With a challenge, and not the least, adapting
The Three-Body Problem
, the first volume of the trilogy by Chinese writer Liu Cixin (published in France by Actes Sud).
A so-called “hard science fiction” story.
In this fairly specific genre, everything must be plausible.
And rest on valid scientific and technical foundations.
At the risk of being boring?
No, assures our colleague Constance Jamet, fascinated by the capacity of David Benioff and D. B. Weiss to play with temporalities, to portray our era and its excesses.
An opinion shared by Laurence Herszberg, boss of Séries Mania, where the series is scheduled to open the festival and have a world premiere, this Friday March 15.
According to her, the
GOT
duo , even very far from dragons and House Targaryen, have kept intact their ability to create a vast universe and that of exploring power, its mechanisms and its excesses.
Mao's China, where part of The
Three-Body Problem
takes place , emerges anything but enhanced.
Netflix doesn't care: its catalog, broadcast in 190 countries, is not available in the Middle Kingdom...