The Three - 3 Body Problem (@3Body)

Across continents và decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel và an existential threat emerges.

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One of the biggest 3 body toàn thân Problem mysteries since the show ended has been: What did Netflix‘s renewal announcement mean, exactly?

During the streamer’s upfront presentation last week, Netflix promised “additional episodes” of the acclaimed sci-fi drama to lớn “finish the story.”

Of course, “additional episodes” could mean anything from two episodes to five seasons and, naturally, many fans worried that the ultimate answer would be too close khổng lồ the former for comfort.

But showrunners David Benioff, Dan Weiss và Alexander Woo assure things are going to be just fine (for the show, at least, if not for their ensemble drama’s characters facing an alien invasion). While the trio didn’t reveal the exact number of episodes in their new deal, they emphasized it was for “seasons” — plural — & that the number of hours aligns with their original plan to adapt tác giả Liu Cixin’s two remaining novels in his Hugo-winning trilogy.

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“We knew going into this how many hours we need khổng lồ tell the rest of the story because we’ve got a roadmap through khổng lồ the end,” Weiss told The Hollywood Reporter. “And we have what we need khổng lồ get to lớn the end as intended from when we started.”

“By the time we finish with the show, it will be seven years we’ve devoted to lớn it,” Benioff added. “We’re now at a place where we get to lớn tell the rest of the story, and, yes, we have enough time lớn tell the rest of the story the way we want to và that’s immensely gratifying.”

The showrunners are now writing the next season of 3 body Problem. They spent four years working on the first season, và noted they plan khổng lồ work on the remaining episodes for the next three years (so perhaps they will over up making two more seasons shot back-to-back, given this timeline, but that’s purely speculative).

The first eight-episode season of 3 body Problem topped Netflix’s TV chart for three weeks và spent seven weeks in Netflix’s global vị trí cao nhất 10. The show’s Rotten Tomatoes critic and audience scores gradually ended up at 80 percent và 78 percent, respectively.

Benioff previously toldThe Hollywood Reporterfora cover storythat thesecond season of3 toàn thân Problemwould be even better than the first: “Liu Cixin’s created this indelible trilogy and the books just get better for me. The second book is far better than the first, and the third book just completely blew my mind. The story just gets more & more ambitious as it goes, and it takes a huge leap in book two. So I feel lượt thích if we survive khổng lồ the second season, we’re going lớn be in a good place.”