What you need to know:
A day before “3 Body Problem” premiered on Netflix, a man was sentenced to death in connection with this adaptation.
An employee, blinded by the idea of an alleged betrayal, hatches a plan to get rid of the person responsible. The victim? Your boss. You should do it subtly without anyone noticing. So he makes the decision to kill him Pills containing lethal doses of a poison.
The boss dies, but how is it possible that a 39-year-old died so suddenly? Despite his efforts to hide the crime, The employee is arrested. After years of investigations that come to light in a trial, the court accuses our protagonist: condemns him to death.
If you don’t know what we’re talking about, don’t blame yourself because You haven’t read the synopsis of a series or movie (none with Brad Pitt or Casey Affleck). It is a real case that happened in China and in which A lawyer named Xu Yao poisoned his boss Lin Qi, who was known as the “millennial billionaire.” But how did this twisted story come about and what is its connection to it? 3-body problem?
Lin Qi, video game genius
This story begins like this. Lin Qi was one of the richest people in China with an estimated net worth of around 15 billion Mexican pesos. Thanks to his company Yoozoo Games, he was one of the most important figures in the entertainment industry, especially video games.
Lin Qi founded his company in 2009 and is responsible for very popular games like Saint Seia: Knight of the Zodiac And Rangers of Oblivion. But above all for the publication of Game of Thrones: Winter is comingwhich shows us the same characters that appeared in the HBO series.
The company’s success since its inception has been enormous. So much so that As of 2015, branches have been opened in different parts of the world. The focus is primarily on the Asia region. So the wool came to the level in piles, the Lin Qi at the same time He wanted to get into film production.
3-body problem
It was like this In 2014 he acquired the rights to adapt the novel The three-body problem either The three-body problemthe first part of the literary saga of The Retelling of Earth’s Past by Chinese author Liu Cixin.
This Hugo Award-winning title is considered one of the most relevant within the science fiction genre and is, so to speak, the foundation of the genre in China. The novel published in 2008 tells us the actions humanity takes when confronted with the news that an alien race will arrive on Earth to acquire it.
3-body problem It is full of scientific concepts, but also raises many political considerations that contribute to it first stage of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.
Lin Qi wanted to do it six films with the plot that develops in the first novel, and in 2017, he hired the famous lawyer Xu Yao to take care of everything. However. The film project never started 3-body problembut it just evolved.
The alleged betrayal that ruined everything
Lin Qi asked Xu Yao to take care of it the subsidiary known as The Three Body Problem Universe to protect the intellectual property of the adaptations made. This happened in 2017, just a year after Yao joined Yoozoo Games as the company’s risk manager. So far everything is going well. But wait…
It was like this Negotiations began with Netflix about working on an original production for the streaming platform. 3-body problem. In the second half of 2019, they came to an agreement, and it was all thanks to the hard work of Qi and Yao.
What could go wrong? The thing is Lin Qi hired other executives to take over all operations, leaving Xu Yao out.. And that’s when things fell apart.
The assassination of Lin Qi by the coward Xu Yao
After Xu Yao was confused, The lawyer hatched an evil plan to take revenge on Lin Qi. Sorry for the question, but how do you kill a billionaire? Poison. Poison disguised as something else.
Some reports suggest that Xu Yao many poisons acquired via the dark web to find out who killed his boss most effectively. All these substances I tested them on animals in a fake lab that was set up and after selecting the poison, he disguised it as pills.
In a good mood,” Xu Yao approached Lin Qi to offer him probiotics in tablet form. What no one knew was that each of the pills contained a dose of poison. Days after the first dose, the millionaire was taken to an emergency hospital. The situation wasn’t serious, however On Christmas 2020, December 25th, Lin Qi’s death was reported. He was 39 years old.
The arrest and the death sentence
Everything felt natural very strange from the start. And soon Xu Yao became the main suspect and was arrested. It was only on March 22, 2024 that a Shanghai court found the lawyer guilty of poisoning and sentenced him to death.
The “weird” thing is, for lack of another word, this One day before the verdict was announced, on March 21st, the adaptation of 3-body problem… the same one that Xu Yao helped realize. The same one that Lin Qi wanted to perform years ago.
3 Body Problems from Netflix
3-body problem Netflix is one of the most watched series on the platform since its premiere on March 21st. And we are not surprised. The adaptation of this novel was one of the most anticipated for several reasons. The most important? How complex it would be to properly bring such an elaborate and extensive story to the screen.
But they did it. David Benioff and DB Weiss, who were also responsible for the television adaptation, are responsible for this game of Thrones for HBO. Many viewers were skeptical about the two’s presence, considering how poorly the series finale went.
But we believe that with this first season of 3-body problem, they have achieved something great and just. Now. Criticism was to be expected. The novel and the Netflix adaptation are set entirely in China ignores several of these scenarios and takes them to the West, particularly London.
The cast is led by the Mexican Eiza Gonzalez alongside Benedict Wong, Alex Sharp, Jess Hong, Jovan Adepo, Liam CunninghamJohn Bradley-West, Zine Tseng, Rosalind Chao, Samer Usmani and the special participation of Jonathan Pryce.