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3 Body Problem’s Biggest Departures
How a notoriously unfilmable book trilogy got whittled down to a season of television while leaving the door open for more.
In 3 Body Problem, she first appears as the narrator of the VR game that Ye Wenjie (played in flashbacks by Zine Tseng and in the present day by Rosalind Chao) gives to Jin Cheng (Jess Hong) after her daughter Vera’s suicide. In 3 Body Problem,viewers see the unflinchingly brutal murder of Ye Wenjie’s father, a bloody crime scene featuring the eyeless corpse of a scientist, and Vera (Vedette Lim) dramatically hurl herself from the top of a particle accelerator. At first glance, it may appear that 3 Body Problem ’s showrunners have invented entirely new characters to internationalize the cast: There’s genius Kiwi physicist Jin Cheng (Jess Hong), stoner American research assistant Saul Durand (Jovan Adepo), British high-school teacher Will Downing (Alex Sharp) and millionaire Jack Rooney (John Bradley), who abandoned scientific study to build a snack empire after graduation.
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