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Why the Creators of ‘Game of Thrones’ Decision to Make Their New Show, ‘3 Body Problem,’ Came Down to Being Terrified · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. In March, we finally
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  Speaker 1: get a taste of the new show Three Body Problem,
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  Speaker 1: based on the hit book series from Game of Thrones
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  Speaker 1: creators David Benioff and Dan Wise, which will stand as
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  Speaker 1: only the second show they've ever run. Following up on Thrones,
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  Speaker 1: the most successful show of the twenty first century, comes
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of pressure, and the due admits to
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  Speaker 1: the Hollywood Reporter they're feeling the heat. In many ways,
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  Speaker 1: the two shows couldn't be more different. Game of Thrones
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  Speaker 1: is a fantasy series grounded in a mythological ancient past,
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  Speaker 1: while Three Body Problem is a sprawling story about an
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  Speaker 1: alien invasion. But there is one thing this show's shared
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  Speaker 1: in common, the intimidation factor. Dan says what excited us
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  Speaker 1: about Thrones. This was something we had never seen on
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  Speaker 1: screen before. In a lot of ways, Three Body Problem
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be more different from Game of Thrones, but it
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  Speaker 1: had that in common, and David feels the same way,
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  Speaker 1: adding it was the first thing we'd come across in
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  Speaker 1: Strones where we were actually scared. We knew this was
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  Speaker 1: going to be hard. Three Body Problem coming March twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: that's direct from Hollywood,