Three-Body

In Beijing, scientists start killing themselves, and nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao begins seeing a countdown. Detective Shi Qiang, known as Da Shi, pulls him into the investigation. Through a virtual reality game about a world with three suns, Wang reaches the story of Ye Wenjie, who in the 1960s sent a message into space from the secret Red Coast base and got an answer. A group on Earth is working for the fleet coming from Trisolaris. Its files are seized in a nanofiber operation at the Panama Canal. The invaders tell humanity it is made of bugs. Da Shi takes Wang to a field full of locusts: bugs have never been defeated.

1. Behind the scenesFour years of scripting

   The script took four years to finish. Filming started in July 2020 and lasted 126 days.

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2. Behind the scenesA real particle accelerator

   The particle accelerator scenes were shot at BEPC II, the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider.

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3. Behind the scenesThe movie that never came out

   In 2015, Yoozoo spent five months shooting a film adaptation that was never released. Years later, the same company struck the deal with Netflix.

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