The cinematographers behind Netflix sci-fi series explain why the sun was such an important element in the show’s VR game world and how they played the story’s fictional science straight down the line.
ttempting to do for science fiction what Game of Thrones did for fantasy, Netflix series 3 Body Problem mixes a large cast and a constellation of locations with shifting timelines, astrophysics and alien invaders.
Game of Thrones’ showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were reportedly handed $20m an episode – bigger than GoT’s budget - to adapt the sci-fi novels of Chinese writer Liu Cixin into eight parts of what is hoped will be the first of several seasons.
Like events in Westeros, the arc of the story is one of impending threat centred around...
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