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Years afterGame of Thronescame to an end, showrunners David Benioff and D.B.

Similarly to Game of Thrones, the source material is dense which made a screen adaptation a challenge.

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“But we knew that it was different from anything else we’d encountered.

Part of the attraction was like, ‘How the hell do we do this?’

It was similar when we read [Thrones author] George R.R.

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Martin’s books for the first time, just thinking, ‘These books are incredible.

But is it possible to do this as a TV series?

Is it too big, too sprawling, too expensive?'”

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All three do start in the rough present day.

And [the] second, third books certainly go far, far, far into the future.

3 Body Problem arrives on Netflix on March 21.

Dave Bautista and Milla Jovovich in In the Lost Lands

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Bix and Cassian in Andor season 2

Andor season 2

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Will Poulter in Warfare

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Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed

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Gabriel Luna as Tommy in The Last of Us

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The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.