LONDON — Creators of the long-running hit series Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, return to television with another ambitious project; science-fiction show 3 Body Problem.

The duo has joined forces with True Blood writer-producer Alexander Woo to bring Chinese author Liu Cixin's bestselling novel The Three-Body Problem, the first book of a trilogy, to the screen in the new Netflix series.