THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM

THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM AKA UNTITLED BENIOFF& WEISS

Series, 1 Hour,

Dates: November 2021 July 2022

Location: UK and China

Network: Netfix

Creator: ALEXANDER WOO, D. B. Weiss, David Benioff

Writer: ALEX WOO

Director: DEREK TSANG


Logline: They tell thee story of humanity's first contact ith an alien civilization.

Roles:

[Female Lead 1]
Character is female (age 25-35), Asian of Chinese heritage. a scientist and a fluent Engish speaker. Lead Role (with optons). From the book, this role is Ye Wenje (seen in flashback) around and after the
Chinese Cultural Rewolution. In the book she is an astrophysicist and the first person to estabish contact with the Trisolarans. Later she becomes the spiritual leader of ETO (Earth-Trisolaris
Organization). This role needs to speak perfect Mandarin.
They are talking to Zhou Dongyu. Derek also ikes Jessie Li (Chun Xia). He's interested in ORA YANG. Derek thinks FALA CHEN is bit mature. We are sending him materials on ORA and FALA.

[Female 2]
Lead, Asian, Character is female (age 70-85), of Chinese heritage, a scientist and a fluent English speaker. Lead Role (no options). Ye Werjie but in present day.
Don't believe we have someone tor this role. Hearing they like Joan Chen and Gong Li

[VILLAIN]
Lead Male (50-80) White
The lead villain in the first season who dies at the end. This role needs to be contemporary to the present day Ye Wenije so can't be too old.
BRYAN CRANSTON, ROBERT DUVALL, KEVIN KLINE, JOHN LITHGOW, KURT RUSSELL avail was checked. They love ROBERT DUBALL and ANTHONY HOPKINS but they are too mature. BRYAN CRANSTON and mid 60s is the sweet
spot age-ise. We also got a nice bite an LEAD FEMALE 3

[Female 3]
Lead Female (25 35) Hispanic / Latino
Character is female (age 25-35), Brazilian, a scientist and a fluent English speaker. Lead Role (with optons). They are breaking the role of "Wang Miao" from the book to a few different characters.
This is one of them. In the book Wang Miao is a nanomaterials researche, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. We learn about ETO and the Three-body worid through the lens of this role.

[RAJ]
Lead Male (25-35) Southeast Asian
Character is male (age 25-35), British and of Indian/South Asian heritage, and is powerlul, charismatic and clever. Lead Role (with options). This role is the equivalent of Ding Yi from the book. In the book he is a Theoretical Physicist, and Yang Dong (Ye Wenjie's daughter)'s husband. He has a strong influence on Yang Dong and eventually sides with Adventists (A branch within ETO).

[ROLE 5]
Lead A black male in his 30s.
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