FORMER Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham is set to be reunited with the hit TV show creators to star in a new Netflix show.
3 Body Problem is a drama series adapted from Liu Cixin’s Hugo Award-winning trilogy.
The series tells an ambitious tale about what happens when humanity discovers that they are not alone in the universe.
Cunningham will be working again with Game of Thrones series creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff on the new project.
Weiss said their new show "pushes a lot of the same buttons" as the HBO fantasy epic.
It's "very different from Game of Thrones but in the same general zone," Weiss tells EW in an interview about Metal Lords, the high school-set film he also wrote for Netflix.
"It's like a science-fiction show that is painted on a very large canvas of space and time. It's as visual effects heavy as Thrones was, and it pushes a lot of the same buttons in many ways that Thrones pushed — and doesn't push others in many ways."
The Three-Body Project TV series was "the main thing" Weiss said he and Benioff wanted to do once they cemented their relationship with Netflix.
"We lived in that world [of Game of Thrones] literally and figuratively for a long, long time," he explains. "It just felt like, for us, it was time to move on and get excited and terrified about building something else — building lots of something elses."
Jonathan Pryce (The Crown), Rosalind Chao (Better Things), Ben Schnetzer (Y: The Last Man) and Eve Ridley (Peppa Pig) have also joined the show.
The Tony Award-winning Pryce has appeared in Brazil, Glengarry Glen Ross, Evita and the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama in 2021. Chao is another fan-friendly name with credits such as Disney’s live-action Mulan, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Joy Luck Club. While Schnetzer is coming off his starring role another apocalyptic sci-fi drama, FX’s Y: The Last Man, 10-year-old Ridley is a newcomer to the industry.
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