John Bradley has his mind blown in new clip from 3 Body Problem

Game of Thrones showrunner David Benioff and Dan Weiss are back with a new show: 3 Body Problem, based on the hugely popular sci-fi novels by Liu Cixin. There are no dragons in this one, and far fewer horses, but this show promises to be every bit as tense and enveloping as Game of Thrones.

In brief, 3 Body Problem is about a mystery involving extraterrestrial life. At the center of the story is a virtual reality game called Three Body, where players are transported to a strange world that operates on very different principles from our own. In the clip below, a character named Jack Rooney (played by Game of Thrones veteran John Bradley, who you may remember as Samwell Tarly) enters the Three Body game. It’s not as fun as it should be:

I’ve read the first Three-Body Problem book but haven’t finished the trilogy. If Jack Rooney is a character from the books, he doesn’t show up in the first novel. Meanwhile, some fans speculate that the woman he’s with, Jin Cheng (Jess Hong), is based on the character of Xin Cheng, who doesn’t show up until the third novel.

Basically, I don’t recognize this scene from the first book, but it gets the broad strokes right: Three Body is out there, but it’s very exclusive game only meant for certain people. When you play the game of Three Body, you win or you die. I forget where I heard that.

3 Body Problem premieres on Netflix in March

Netflix also revealed the official release date for 3 Body Problem: March 21, 2024, which is later that we initially thought.

It’ll definitely be interesting to see the guys behind Game of Thrones return with another lavish, expensive project, their first since the HBO show ended. Also, in the flurry of shots at the beginning of the clip above, you can see another Game of Thrones veteran: Liam Cunningham, who played Davos Seaworth, will appear as an intelligence officer named Thomas Wade. He doesn’t appear until the third book in the Three-Body series, but we’ll gladly watch him act now.

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