The Three-Body Problem/Derivative works

This page sorts out the messages of the derivative works of The Three-Body Problem.

Comics

The Three-Body Problem comic version by Huanchuang Weilai, serialized in Tencent Animation & Comics in November 2019. It currently maintains weekly updates.

Synopsis: A large number of scientists die for no apparent reason, uncovering an unusual disturbance in the Earth's scientific community. Nanoscientist Wang Miao enters the mysterious MMO "Three-Body" and begins to gradually approach the truth of this world. While attending a player gathering, Wang Miao comes into contact with a secret organization (ETO). The Earth Defense Organization's China Battle Command Center breaks the rules and promotes a suspended police officer, Shi Qiang, to investigate the incident, and the two, in mutual disagreement, begin to face the great changes in the world together…

STAFF

• Produced by: Huanchuang Weilai, Tencent Animation & Comics, Ba Guangfen, boodo
• Author: Huanchuang Weilai
• Project coordinator: Dai Haoran
• Editor-in-charge: Peng Sibo
• Comic Editor: Ge Wendi
• Comic Script: Cai Jin
• Lead Writer: Caoji Jiu Ri Dong
• Assistant: Xiao Xianyu

Animations

Official animation The Three-Body Problem

Produced by bilibili and co-produced by The Three-Body Universe and producer YHKT ENTERTAINMENT, it is expected to be released in 2021, with a total of three swordholding, wallbreaking, and wallfacing 18 episodes.

Synopsis: Countless thin lines stretch across the starry sky like a giant brush. The Trisolaran Fleet will arrive in 400 years. Distant butterflies flap their wings and also change the fate of Luo Ji, and behind the door that opens with a bang is the centre of the world - the Wallfacer Project opens. Meanwhile, inside the wall-breaking chamber created by Sophon, the wall-breakers take their places one by one…

Main article: The Three-Body Problem (YHKT ENTERTAINMENT)

Fan animation Waterdrop

Wang Ren produced a The Three-Body Problem fan animated short film, which was uploaded and released on September 15, 2015. on August 19, 2016 had won the Xingyun Awards for Global Chinese Science Fiction Film Best Short Film Award. Da Liu commented on it, "I can responsibly say that this is the The Three-Body Problem film in my mind, and if I can make this kind of mood, I will really die in peace."

Main article: Waterdrop

Fan animation Mine Threebody Animation

Mine Threebody Animation started as an anime series adapted from The Three-Body Problem by Godspeed and its production team using the cube sandbox game Minecraft as the engine. Due to the limitations of the MC game itself, the production team partially joined the animation production from the eighth episode. From the ninth episode they completely abandoning the MC platform and turned to imitate the MC style animation production.

The first season of the initial production is completely ♯♯♯♯♯♯♯ level, the picture is extremely broken, but in the joint efforts of many parties, the eleventh episode achieves the technical explosion. After the director of the second season to get the official license, a variety of problems further alleviated, the picture funds visible to the naked eye, a qualitative improvement. The third season of Mine Threebody Animation: The Legend of Zhang Beihai was a big hit.

The fourth season is currently in production.

Main article: Mine Threebody Animation

Movies

Director's Edition by Zhang Fanfan

Produced by Yu-Gi-Oh Films and Ali Film, directed by Zhang Fanfan. Scheduled for release in July 2016. Now bounced check indefinitely →_→

STAFF

• Producer: Kong Ergou
• Director: Zhang Fanfan
• Screenwriter: Song Chunyu
• Executive Producer: Liu Cixin
• Cinematographer: Chris Chomyn

CAST

• Wang Miao: Feng Shaofeng
• Ye Wenjie: Zhang Jingchu
• Shi Qiang: Wu Gang
• Shen Yufei: Tang Yan
• Wei Cheng: Jun Du
• Yang Dong: Yuan Yuan Cheng
• Yang Weining: Xing Jiadong
• Pan Han: Zhang Han
• Lei Zhicheng: Du Zhiguo
• Chang Weisi: Zhang Guangbei
• "Frontiers of Science" scientists (hanyu pinyin order): Ge Yong, Lin Lin, Liu Jiang, Pei Yongle, Wang Qiang, Xu Weidong, Zhao Jiwen, Zhou Fei, Zhou Hongyi, Zhu Jin

Director Tian Xiaopeng ver.

A live-action film produced by Octmedia, with original Coloroom Pictures founder Yi Qiao and executive producer Wei Yunyun as producers and Monkey King: Hero Is Back director Tian Xiaopeng as director, was announced for production on June 23, 2020.

TV series

Netflix ver.

On the night of September 1, 2020, Netflix announced that it will turn The Three-Body Problem trilogy of novels into a drama series. It is understood that the drama version will be created by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss in collaboration with The Terror season 2 operator Alexander Woo, with original author Liu Cixin and English translator Ken Liu as consulting producers. Filming is expected to begin in November 2021.

Tencent Video ver.

Co-produced by Tencent Video, The Three-Body Universe and Linghe, and exclusively broadcast by Tencent Video.

STAFF

• Original Author: Liu Cixin
• Director: Yang Lei
• Producer: Bai Yicong, Dong Jiaqi

CAST

• Wang Miao: Zhang Luyi
• Shi Qiang: Yu Hewei
• Ye Wenjie[Senior]: Chen Jin
• Ye Wenjie[Youth]: Wang Ziwen
• Chang Weisi: Lin Yongjian
• Shen Yufei: Li Xiaoran

Popular science books

Physics in Three-Body

By Li Miao, a Chinese physicist and science writer, with a recommended preface by Liu Cixin, "A Science More Magical than Science Fiction" has won many awards, including the World Chinese Science Popularization Gold Award.

A popular science work that analyzes the physics related to the science fiction content in The Three-Body Problem with a truly scientific perspective, which has been recognized and praised by Liu Cixin himself.

The book exhaustively introduces the possibilities of realization of Sophon, Waterdrop, dual vector foil, gravitational-wave system, curvature navigation, dimensional change, mental steel, dark forest, etc. with the relevant science fiction content of the frontier of modern physics.

Fan fictions

Three-Body X: The Redemption of Time

This is a work of homoerotic fiction created by netizen Bao Shu for the The Three-Body Problem series.

It was originally published on newsmth.net and Baidu Tieba, and was widely praised (but later some people thought its plot was cliche, a wretched sequel to fine work). And then it was published by Yao Haijun, the deputy editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World.

The work filled a gap in the plot, and this gap was intended to be a parallel novel, so it was hard to hold back The Three-Body Problem 4. True-fans hound officials to death

Fan songs

Mine Threebody Animation Production Team Project

• Ark of Cold Night (寒夜方舟)——Zhang Beihai's character song
• Pluto’s Snow (冥王星的雪)——Cheng Xin & Ai AA's character song
• Galaxy Cross Flow (星海横流)——Luo Ji's character song
• The Journey of the Trisolaran Civilization (三体文明之征途)——Trisolaran civilization’s character song
• Still Looks (依旧容颜)——Zhuang Yan’s character song
• Memories at the End of Time ({{lang|zh-cn|时光尽头的记忆)——Yun Tianming’s character song
• Time Fairy Tale (时间童话)——Singer’s character song
• The Years Became Monuments (岁月成碑)——Ye Wenjie’s character song
• Walking Slowly Cold Night (彳亍寒夜)——Chu Yan’s character song
• Space Foody Journey (太空吃货之旅)——Liu Xiaoming’s character song
• Hunter's Showdown (猎人的对决)——S2 & S3 OP
• The Dark Forest——S2 ED & Earth civilization’s character song
• To Loneliness (至孤独)——Zhang Beihai/Luo Ji’s character song
• With One's Back to Strategic Point (负隅)——Wang Miao’s character song
• Lunaria——Luo Ji×Zhuang Yan’s character song
• Born to Die (向死而生)——Ding Yi’s character song
• Quality of Mind (心灵的质量)——Cheng Xin's character song
• Night Voyager (夜航星)——S3 ED

Hellsaga Mosken's Creation

• Era of Galaxy (银河纪元)——Human perspective
• Star Loop 2347 (星环2347)——Thomas Wade's fan song
• Ring’s Eyes (魔戒之眼)——"Ring"'s fan song
• The New Born of Gravity (万有引力的新生)——Gravity's fan song
• Boundless Galaxy (星海无涯)——Galactic Humans's fan song
• Fate in the World (寰宇有缘)——Cheng Xin's fan song
• Hollow Doll (中空人偶)——Yun Tianming's fan song
• Frostblade of Vengeance (复仇霜刃)——Tilapia's song
• Morning by Ear (耳畔晨曦)——Listening Post 1379's fan song
• Sacrificial Sudden-Onset Psychotic Disorder (牺牲性突发型精神失常)——Listening Post 1379's fan song

Others

• The Three-Body Problem Ode (三体赋)
• THE END (末日)
• Red Coast 1979 (红岸1979)——Ye Wenjie’s fan song
• Not Afraid——The Three-Body Problem English ver. THEME
• Starbursts Like Swords (星芒如剑)——Zhang Beihai's fan song
• Blue Space (蓝色空间)——Blue Space's fan song
• That Star (那颗星)——Cheng Xin's fan song
• Traveler (羁旅)——Ding Yi’s fan song
• Stardust Epic (星尘史诗)
• He Is the Savior Who Is Not Thanked by the Lamb (他是不被羔羊感谢的救世主)——Luo Ji's fan song
• Sea of Dust (尘海)——audio drama OP
• Lone Grass (孤草)——Yun Tianming's fan song
• Luo Ji (罗辑)——character song in audio drama

Fan games

Three-Body Simulation System

Author: Da Biange (alias Uncle Fish)

This is a game based on the original book The Three-Body Problem. In this game, the individual plots are made into small modules, independent of each other but connected.

The main task of the game: rush to Chao Ge (total rush distance: 999,999,999 trilogy distance, default rush speed: 1 trilogy distance/s) (also the only feature on iOS)

Note: This game is not for profit, a tribute to the original author Mr. Liu Cixin

Darkforest

The Facebook company has developed a Go program based on deep learning techniques of convolutional neural networks and Monte Carlo tree search technology, naming it Darkforest. Tian Yundong, a researcher at Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Institute, who is in charge of the project, claims, "I named my program 'Dark Forest' because I'm a fan of The Three-Body Problem. "

External links

Category:The Three-Body Problem