The Netflix series “3 Body Problem” has already been watched millions of times worldwide since its release late last month. It even found an audience in China, where Netflix is not available, sparking many discussions among viewers, spotmedia.ro reports.
But many fans of the three-book series on which the show is based were paying attention to what was happening in a Shanghai courtroom, where one of the key players behind the TV adaptation was sentenced to death, just a the day after the launch of the series, writes the BBC.
For what? For murder. Specifically, for the murder of businessman Lin Qi, whose company Yoozoo Games owns the rights to the TV adaptations of the books.
According to the court, the accused Xu Yao, known as a distinguished lawyer until then, was absorbed in the professional rivalry after Lin marginalized him, immediately after he helped him obtain, in 2020, the agreement with Netflix to film the books.
A few months after this seemingly minor gesture, Lin was dead – the victim of a poisoning plot described by the court as both “premeditated” and “extremely disgusting”.
Lin and Xu were on good terms at first: Lin put Xu in charge of a subsidiary called the “3 Body Problem” Universe a year after he joined Yoozoo as the company’s chief risk officer in 2017.
The subsidiary was responsible for securing the intellectual property rights for the film adaptations, and the two worked closely when they negotiated the deal to adapt the novel into a Netflix original series.
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