立即打开
横生变故,观众何时才能等到剧版《三体》?

横生变故,观众何时才能等到剧版《三体》?

Grady McGregor 2021-01-28
林奇之死对这部剧影响几何?

Netflix签约的一个新项目卷入了一桩丑闻——说不定在将来某一天,这桩离奇的丑闻也值得该公司专门为之拍摄一部犯罪剧。

2020年9月,美国流媒体巨头Netflix宣布与中国的游族影业合作,筹备将大热的中国科幻小说《三体》搬上大屏幕。游族影业之前就持有《三体》的影视改编权——这是《地球往事》(《三体》原名)三部曲中的第一本,但是该公司在中国一直遭到抨击,因为它根本未能成功地将这本畅销的小说改编成电影或电视剧。

去年9月,Netflix表示,《三体》将由HBO出品的《权力的游戏》的编剧大卫•贝尼奥夫和D•B•威斯共同操刀,而游族的董事长林奇和副总裁赵骥龙将作为该项目的执行制片人。

林奇在一份声明中说:“我们很高兴与Netflix一起踏上这段新的冒险之旅。”

但是在12月下旬,林奇中毒身亡。据中国媒体报道,林奇于12月15日在上海被送往医院,并于10天后的圣诞节那天死亡。上海当局在林奇的血液中发现了至少五种不同类型的毒物,包括来自河豚体内的一种剧毒,以及过量可致人死亡的重金属汞。《财新国际》也报道称,游族的副总裁赵骥龙和至少另一名员工也中了非致命剂量的汞。

12月下旬,上海警方向中国媒体证实,他们拘留了一名在游族工作的许姓嫌疑人。今年1月,《财新国际》的一项调查发现,犯罪嫌疑人很可能是林奇的同事许垚,他于2017年加入游族,并担任公司的首席执行官。许垚是一名训练有素的律师,其工作是负责《三体》项目中涉及的知识产权问题。

警方尚未就林奇之死起诉许垚或其他任何人,林奇被怀疑是他杀的潜在动机也仍然不清楚。但《财新》还报道说,许垚和林奇的关系很差,而这起码有一部分是由于林奇与Netflix达成交易有关。

与林奇和游族有过来往的消息人士告诉《财新》,许垚可能是从《绝命毒师》这部电视剧中汲取灵感的。据报道,他建立了自己的实验室来制造毒药,并在猫狗等宠物身上进行了测试。

游族在给《财富》杂志的回复中没有评论许垚在林奇中毒一案中可能扮演什么样的角色,而是称林奇的过世“对我们所有人来说都是无法形容的损失”。该公司还表示,它将努力让该项目顺利进行下去。

游族的发言人在一份声明中说:“我们与Netflix在《三体》系列的合作将继续按计划进行。”

Neflix在去年9月宣布了其《三体》计划,引起了极大的关注,特别是由于其争取到了《权力的游戏》编剧威斯和贝尼奥夫的参与。

贝尼奥夫和威斯在一份声明中写道:“刘慈欣的三部曲是我们读过的最雄心勃勃的科幻小说系列。我们期待在未来的几年内将它搬上大银幕,为世界各地的观众带来一场视听盛宴。”

图片来源:Randy Holmes—Getty Images

2020年9月,美国的一名议员呼吁这家流媒体巨头取消对该剧的制作,而林奇之死已经成为Netflix《三体》系列的第二起丑闻。

Netflix拒绝评论林奇的过世或《三体》的未来制作。但现在,一系列丑闻正在威胁着这部备受期待的大片,使之可能尚未开启,就麻烦不断。

但Netflix表示将继续拍摄这部剧。

剧版《三体》,何去何从?

Netflix似乎愿意继续推进这个项目。但是,该公司没有表明林奇的死亡是否会改变其制作《三体》剧集的计划。

南加州大学研究中国政治、社会和电影的教授斯坦利•罗森说:“林奇是项目的助推者,(与Netflix的合作)几乎是他最大的心血。”

Netflix几乎没有提供关于游族和林奇参与项目开发的细节。目前尚不清楚游族是否有权在中国发行这部剧。在宣布该项目的新闻稿中,Netflix表示,游族“获得了”制作《三体》的“授权”,并将游族列为该项目五位执行制片者之一。但是,和好莱坞的许多执行制片者一样,尚不清楚游族在剧集制作中扮演了什么角色。林奇的工作将被谁替代、如何替代,目前也不得而知。

罗森称,像林奇这样对《三体》充满热情的人,对确保作品能够准确反映原著的文化背景和原始素材而言至关重要。

他还表示:“可以找到代替林奇的人,但肯定找不到像林奇那样有着忠诚信念的人。”林奇曾经的一位教授在网上悼念林奇时写道,林奇曾经拿出1.5亿美元的个人财产买下《三体》的版权,在林奇看来,将刘慈欣的小说带向更广泛的受众人群是他毕生之所求。

《财富》杂志从游族获悉,林奇的同事将继续担任Netflix《三体》剧集的执行制片人,并将确保“制作顺利进行”。游族的发言人表示,将继续从事与《三体》相关的其他项目,以“延续林奇未果的愿景”。

游族及其负责《三体》IP的附属公司“三体宇宙”也表示,他们正在进行“管理层调整,以确保一切顺利运行”。

此外,财务因素也是《三体》项目未来发展的一大要点。

目前尚不清楚在《三体》项目中Netflix向游族支付了多少费用,但据报道,亚马逊在2019年曾经与游族进行谈判,意图以10亿美元的价格购买版权。同年,Netflix还与《权力的游戏》主创大卫•贝尼奥夫和D•B•威斯签下了价值2亿美元的合同。

“毕竟已经投入了这么多资金,(Netflix和游族)似乎非常希望推进这个项目继续。”罗森说,“《三体》是一个大IP。”(财富中文网)

编译:陈聪聪、杨二一

Netflix签约的一个新项目卷入了一桩丑闻——说不定在将来某一天,这桩离奇的丑闻也值得该公司专门为之拍摄一部犯罪剧。

2020年9月,美国流媒体巨头Netflix宣布与中国的游族影业合作,筹备将大热的中国科幻小说《三体》搬上大屏幕。游族影业之前就持有《三体》的影视改编权——这是《地球往事》(《三体》原名)三部曲中的第一本,但是该公司在中国一直遭到抨击,因为它根本未能成功地将这本畅销的小说改编成电影或电视剧。

去年9月,Netflix表示,《三体》将由HBO出品的《权力的游戏》的编剧大卫•贝尼奥夫和D•B•威斯共同操刀,而游族的董事长林奇和副总裁赵骥龙将作为该项目的执行制片人。

林奇在一份声明中说:“我们很高兴与Netflix一起踏上这段新的冒险之旅。”

但是在12月下旬,林奇中毒身亡。据中国媒体报道,林奇于12月15日在上海被送往医院,并于10天后的圣诞节那天死亡。上海当局在林奇的血液中发现了至少五种不同类型的毒物,包括来自河豚体内的一种剧毒,以及过量可致人死亡的重金属汞。《财新国际》也报道称,游族的副总裁赵骥龙和至少另一名员工也中了非致命剂量的汞。

12月下旬,上海警方向中国媒体证实,他们拘留了一名在游族工作的许姓嫌疑人。今年1月,《财新国际》的一项调查发现,犯罪嫌疑人很可能是林奇的同事许垚,他于2017年加入游族,并担任公司的首席执行官。许垚是一名训练有素的律师,其工作是负责《三体》项目中涉及的知识产权问题。

警方尚未就林奇之死起诉许垚或其他任何人,林奇被怀疑是他杀的潜在动机也仍然不清楚。但《财新》还报道说,许垚和林奇的关系很差,而这起码有一部分是由于林奇与Netflix达成交易有关。

与林奇和游族有过来往的消息人士告诉《财新》,许垚可能是从《绝命毒师》这部电视剧中汲取灵感的。据报道,他建立了自己的实验室来制造毒药,并在猫狗等宠物身上进行了测试。

游族在给《财富》杂志的回复中没有评论许垚在林奇中毒一案中可能扮演什么样的角色,而是称林奇的过世“对我们所有人来说都是无法形容的损失”。该公司还表示,它将努力让该项目顺利进行下去。

游族的发言人在一份声明中说:“我们与Netflix在《三体》系列的合作将继续按计划进行。”

Neflix在去年9月宣布了其《三体》计划,引起了极大的关注,特别是由于其争取到了《权力的游戏》编剧威斯和贝尼奥夫的参与。

贝尼奥夫和威斯在一份声明中写道:“刘慈欣的三部曲是我们读过的最雄心勃勃的科幻小说系列。我们期待在未来的几年内将它搬上大银幕,为世界各地的观众带来一场视听盛宴。”

2020年9月,美国的一名议员呼吁这家流媒体巨头取消对该剧的制作,而林奇之死已经成为Netflix《三体》系列的第二起丑闻。

Netflix拒绝评论林奇的过世或《三体》的未来制作。但现在,一系列丑闻正在威胁着这部备受期待的大片,使之可能尚未开启,就麻烦不断。

但Netflix表示将继续拍摄这部剧。

剧版《三体》,何去何从?

Netflix似乎愿意继续推进这个项目。但是,该公司没有表明林奇的死亡是否会改变其制作《三体》剧集的计划。

南加州大学研究中国政治、社会和电影的教授斯坦利•罗森说:“林奇是项目的助推者,(与Netflix的合作)几乎是他最大的心血。”

Netflix几乎没有提供关于游族和林奇参与项目开发的细节。目前尚不清楚游族是否有权在中国发行这部剧。在宣布该项目的新闻稿中,Netflix表示,游族“获得了”制作《三体》的“授权”,并将游族列为该项目五位执行制片者之一。但是,和好莱坞的许多执行制片者一样,尚不清楚游族在剧集制作中扮演了什么角色。林奇的工作将被谁替代、如何替代,目前也不得而知。

罗森称,像林奇这样对《三体》充满热情的人,对确保作品能够准确反映原著的文化背景和原始素材而言至关重要。

他还表示:“可以找到代替林奇的人,但肯定找不到像林奇那样有着忠诚信念的人。”林奇曾经的一位教授在网上悼念林奇时写道,林奇曾经拿出1.5亿美元的个人财产买下《三体》的版权,在林奇看来,将刘慈欣的小说带向更广泛的受众人群是他毕生之所求。

《财富》杂志从游族获悉,林奇的同事将继续担任Netflix《三体》剧集的执行制片人,并将确保“制作顺利进行”。游族的发言人表示,将继续从事与《三体》相关的其他项目,以“延续林奇未果的愿景”。

游族及其负责《三体》IP的附属公司“三体宇宙”也表示,他们正在进行“管理层调整,以确保一切顺利运行”。

此外,财务因素也是《三体》项目未来发展的一大要点。

目前尚不清楚在《三体》项目中Netflix向游族支付了多少费用,但据报道,亚马逊在2019年曾经与游族进行谈判,意图以10亿美元的价格购买版权。同年,Netflix还与《权力的游戏》主创大卫•贝尼奥夫和D•B•威斯签下了价值2亿美元的合同。

“毕竟已经投入了这么多资金,(Netflix和游族)似乎非常希望推进这个项目继续。”罗森说,“《三体》是一个大IP。”(财富中文网)

编译:陈聪聪、杨二一

One of Netflix’s new signature projects has become embroiled in a scandal that may one day be worthy of its own Netflix true crime series.

In September 2020, streaming giant Netflix announced that it was partnering with China’s Yoozoo Pictures to adapt the hit Chinese science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem into a television show. Yoozoo Pictures previously owned the filming rights to The Three-Body Problem, the first book in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, but was frequently criticized in China for its unsuccessful attempts to bring the popular novels to film and television screens.

At the time, Netflix said that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, creators of HBO's Game of Thrones, would write the show, while Yoozoo’s chairman Lin Qi and vice president Zhao Jilong were included as executive producers on the project.

“We are thrilled to embark on this new adventure with Netflix,” Lin said in a statement.

But in late December, Chinese media reported that Lin had been poisoned to death. Lin was hospitalized in Shanghai on Dec. 15 and died ten days later on Christmas, according to Chinese media. Authorities in Shanghai reportedly found at least five different types of poison in Lin’s blood, including tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin found in pufferfish, and mercury, a heavy metal that is lethal when consumed in certain quantities. Chinese media outlet Caixin Global also reported that Yoozoo’s vice president Zhao and at least one other employee had been poisoned with mercury in non-lethal doses.

In late December, Shanghai police confirmed to Chinese media that they had detained a suspect who worked at Yoozoo with the surname Xu. In January, an investigation by Caixin Global found that the suspect is likely Lin's colleague Xu Yao, the CEO of Yoozoo Pictures who joined the company in 2017. Xu, a lawyer by training, was tasked with developing portions of the intellectual property related to The Three-Body Problem.

Police have not yet charged Xu or anyone else in Lin’s death, and the potential motive in Lin’s suspected killing remains unclear. But Caixin also reported that Xu and Lin had a poor relationship, which stemmed, at least in part, over competition relating to Lin’s deal with Netflix.

Xu may have drawn inspiration from the Breaking Bad television series, sources close to Lin and Yoozoo told Caixin. He reportedly built his own lab to make poisons and tested them on pets like cats and dogs.

In a note to Fortune, Yoozoo did not comment on Xu's alleged role in Lin's poisoning but called Lin's passing a "loss beyond description to all of us." Yoozoo also said it is committed to seeing the project through.

"Our collaboration with Netflix on The Three-Body Problem series will continue as planned," a spokesperson for Yoozoo said in a statement.

Neflix announced its Three-Body Problem plans in September to great fanfare, especially due to the involvement of Game of Thrones creators Weiff and Benioff.

“Liu Cixin’s trilogy is the most ambitious science-fiction series we’ve read,” wrote Benioff and Weiss in a statement. “We look forward to spending the next years of our lives bringing this to life for audiences around the world.”

Lin’s death is now the second high-profile scandal for Netflix’s Three-Body Problem series after U.S. lawmakers in September 2020 called on the streaming giant to cancel production.

Netflix declined to comment on Lin’s death or future production of the Three-Body Problem for this story, but the series of scandals now threatens to tarnish the blockbuster project before it even gets off the ground.

Netflix said it intended to carry on with the show.

Where to go from here?

Netflix appeared willing to press ahead with the project, but it has not indicated whether Lin's death will change its plans for the Three-Body Problem production.

"[Lin Qi] was the one pushing the project forward and [the Netflix deal] seemed like the culmination of all his efforts," says Stanley Rosen, a Chinese politics, society, and film professor at the University of Southern California.

Netflix has provided few details about Yoozoo and Lin's involvement in the project's development.It is unclear whether Yoozoo has the rights to release the series in China. In its press release announcing the project, Netflix said Yoozoo "granted rights" to produce the Three-Body Problem, and it listed Yoozoo as one of five executive producers on the project. Yet, as with many executive producer credits in Hollywood, it is unclear what role Yoozoo played in the production and how Lin's contributions can be replaced.

Rosen says that someone like Lin, who was passionate about the Three-Body Problem, would be critical to ensuring that the production accurately represents the book's cultural context and source material.

"Replacing [Lin] can be done, but you won’t get anyone as committed as he was," says Rosen. One of Lin's former professors wrote a note on an online memorial for Lin that said Lin personally spent $150 million on securing rights to the Three-Body Problem and felt it was his life's work to bring Liu's novels to a larger audience.

Yoozoo told Fortune that Lin's colleague will continue serving as an executive producer on Netflix's show and will make sure "the production runs smoothly." The Yoozoo spokesperson said will work on other projects related to The Three-Body Problem as a means to "carry on [Lin's] unaccomplished vision."

Yoozoo and the Three-Body Universe, an affiliate company in charge of The Three-Body Problem's intellectual property, also say they are making "management level adjustments to ensure all things operate smoothly".

Financial incentives also factor into the project's future.

How much Netflix paid for in its The Three-Body Problem deal with Yoozoo is not publicly known, but in 2019, Amazon was reportedly in talks with Yoozoo to purchase the rights for $1 billion. That year, Netflix also signed Benioff and Weiss to a deal worth a reported $200 million.

"[Netflix and Yoozoo] seem quite eager to push forward on it because so much money has been invested," says Rosen. "[The Three-Body Problem] is very strong intellectual property."

热读文章
热门视频
扫描二维码下载财富APP