Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ moves from UK to Hungary for seasons two and three
3 Body Problem follows a group of scientists who join forces with a detective to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history. It will conclude with season three. Created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo, the sci-fi series serves as an adaptation of The Three Body Problem novel by Liu Cixin.
Filming on the Hungarian shoot is set to start on July 8, 2025 and wrap on August 2, 2027, according to filings on the Hungarian National Film Office website. The Hungarian production partner is Pioneer, which has credits including Walden Media’s Billion Dollar Spy starring Russell Crowe, and Pablo Larrain’s Maria, starring Angelina Jolie.
Hungary’s filming incentive is competitive at 30% on eligible spend of which up to 25% can be non-Hungarian. The production’s further international locations are not yet known.
Adapting Liu’s scientifically complex source material was no easy task for the showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who’ve both admitted to the technicalities of interpreting the complex world on screen. However, it was this challenge that drew the creative duo behind Game of Thrones to the project. And by many indications, they aced their target, producing an entertaining epic that didn’t dumb down the science. “You don’t want people to be pushing pause and hitting Wikipedia every five minutes,” Weiss explained of their simplified yet faithful approach. “In the book, he’s explaining all this stuff to you anyway in writing. It was a challenge, and ultimately, that was what drew us to the project in the first place.”
They rose to the challenge with Season 1 and hope to outperform their success with Season 2, which will adapt the even more technical second novel, The Dark Forest. Promising that Season 2 will even be more “bonkers,” Weiss recently teased, “This kind of eases you into the world of the story, but the story gets really wild in the best possible way. With something that’s that wild, there are a lot of choices to be made and a lot of things to be figured out. We’ve been putting our heads together to figure them out recently, especially over the past couple of months.”