The showrunners signed an alleged $200 million development deal with the streamer last year, moving on from HBO and later abandoning plans for a new Star Wars trilogy (coincidentally timed with their departure from Westeros).
The pair will take on a new live-action series based on Chinese author Liu Cixin's critically-acclaimed science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem, depicting humanity's first contact with an alien civilisation.
True Blood scribe Alexander Woo will also help adapt the book and its two sequels, The Dark Forest and Death's End, with Star Wars: The Last Jedi's Rian Johnson, Brad Pitt and Rosamund Pike on-board as executive producers. Cixin will serve as a consulting producer alongside the series' English language writer Ken Liu.
Woo added that 'it's a privilege to be adapting one of the great masterpieces of Chinese science-fiction... The Three-Body Problem trilogy combines so many things I love: rich, multi-layered characters and true existential stakes - all told as an elegant and deeply human allegory'.
Cixin also said, 'I set out to tell a story that transcends time and the confines of nations, cultures and races; one that compels us to consider the fate of humankind as a whole. It is a great honor as an author to see this unique sci-fi concept travel and gain fandom across the globe and I am excited for new and existing fans all over the world to discover the story on Netflix.'
