Well, I guess money was the motivation, but it's unusual to hear of a murder related to a Netflix project:
Chinese authorities have executed a man for murdering his associate, billionaire gaming tycoon Lin Qi.
In 2020, a disgruntled Xu Yao poisoned Lin for sidelining him shortly after he helped him land a Netflix deal, local media reported.
Lin's Yoozoo Games holds the film adaptation rights for the Chinese science fiction trilogy which Netflix made into the series 3 Body Problem.
Xu was convicted in 2024 and his execution, which reportedly happened on 21 May, was confirmed on Tuesday by his company in a statement, adding "justice has ultimately been served".
"We deeply mourn Mr. Lin and extend our heartfelt condolences to his family," the statement said.
"As colleagues who fought alongside him, all members of the company are grateful for the impartiality of the judicial process."
The science fiction trilogy 3 Body Problem is based on Chinese author Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past. First published in Chinese, the books have been translated into nearly 30 languages and inspired multiple adaptations.
For what it's worth: I only watched the first episode of 3 Body Problem, and I had enough issues with it to not bother continuing. (I can't remember now all of the reasons it felt unconvincing, but I am sure one of them was some pretty inauthentic sounding dialogue between characters.)
As far as I can tell, some people like the books for the big ideas, but hardly anyone thinks it is great in a literary sense (even with allowances being made for it being translated into English.) Maybe it's a bit like a lot of Arthur C Clarke in that way?
Speaking of Clarke, for some reason his book "A Fall of Moondust" often comes to mind when I look at the Moon, perhaps 45 years after I read it.
Maybe because I read it at an impressionable young adult age, but it has stuck in memory that it has an implied sexual liaison in the stranded surface crafts toilet. I hope I'm not imagining that. Wait - this is what AI is built for - confirming ridiculously unimportant stuff like this?
Yes, Claude tells me my memory is right:
...the scene involves Radley and Miss Morley, two passengers aboard the Selene who are trapped together after the dust cruiser sinks. At one point, a character uses the toilet cubicle, and shortly afterward another character emerges from it as well — with Clarke leaving a distinct but entirely unspoken implication that the two had a sexual encounter in there while ostensibly using the facilities separately.
Oddly enough, for a writer who later because a bit creepily obsessed with sex, there is very little in the way of sex scenes that I can remember from Robert Heinlein's books. The way he wrote about them just didn't stick in memory. (OK, I do remember a couple, but won't bother recounting which ones.)
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