Netflix is betting on its formidable new sci-fi collection from the creators of “Game of Thrones” to assist prolong its streaming dominance in 2024, as the corporate unveiled a sprawling TV and movie lineup Thursday.
“3 Body Problem,” out March 21, is customized from a bestselling Chinese trilogy of novels which takes place in an alternate model of recent actuality the place humanity has made contact with an alien civilization.
The collection might be “part thriller, part sci-fi,” chief content material officer Bela Bajaria instructed journalists at a Los Angeles press convention.
It is at the very least partly set in modern-day London. One scene confirmed a British police inspector (performed by Benedict Wong) investigating a wierd and grisly obvious suicide.
“It’s a big swing. A huge, cinematic bet,” mentioned Bajaria.
The collection from “Thrones” pair David Benioff and D.B. Weiss options prominently in a Netflix 2024 preview reel printed on-line Thursday, and was the primary content material proven to reporters at this week’s presentation.
Other reveals due later this 12 months embody the eagerly awaited second season of “Squid Game” — the dystopian Korean horror story a couple of fictional, lethal recreation present which stays by far the most-watched Netflix TV collection ever.
It will comply with returning hero Gi-hun as he abandons his plans to go to the United States and “starts a chase with a motive.”
Also amongst a notably worldwide lineup had been a Spanish-language, Colombian-made TV collection primarily based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s beloved novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” and a six-part drama in regards to the lifetime of Brazilian racing nice Ayrton Senna.
On the film facet, Eddie Murphy returns this summer time in a brand new “Beverly Hills Cop” sequel.
Netflix final week introduced it had added 13 million subscribers within the ultimate three months of final 12 months.
It completed 2023 with barely greater than 260 million subscribers worldwide — comfortably forward of any rivals.
“Many of you in this room have said to me that with so many titles across so many genres, that it’s hard to understand our strategy,” mentioned Bajaria.
But roughly two folks per account means an viewers of “more than half a billion people,” she mentioned.
“No entertainment company has tried to program with this ambition — for this many tastes, cultures and languages. Ever.”
Netflix started life in 1998 as a U.S.-only DVD-by-mail rental firm, taking over the then-mighty film rental big Blockbuster, earlier than dipping into video-on-demand as a perk for its clients — a shift that enabled the corporate to increase globally.
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