(Los Angeles) Netflix is counting on a new series produced by the creators of Game Of Thrones to maintain its domination of the world of streaming in 2024, the company announced on Thursday by unveiling its program for the year.
In The 3-body problem (3 Body Problems), available on March 21 and adapted from a big bestseller in China, a parallel world of humanity has established links with an extraterrestrial society.
A fresco “half-thriller, half-science fiction”, in the words of Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s content director, during a presentation to the press in Los Angeles.
The new series, set in today’s London, is led by David Benioff and DB Weiss, masterminds of Game Of ThronesHBO’s huge hit of the 2010s, with its world of dragons, sex and political intrigue.
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DB Weiss, co-creator of the series 3 Body Problems
Another event series planned for the 2024 program on Netflix: the second season of Squid Game. Dark and violent South Korean denunciation of the excesses of capitalism, in which candidates kill each other during cruel children’s games in the hope of winning millions, the series was one of the most popular on the platform.
Also on the year’s list is a Colombian adaptation of A hundred years of solitude by writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a miniseries on Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian Formula 1 legend.
“No entertainment company has had this ambition in programming, with so many tastes, cultures, languages. Never,” said Bela Bajaria, responding to criticism of the profusion of the Netflix catalog which would make its strategy “difficult to understand.”
Netflix started the year with great fanfare by announcing during its quarterly results that it had gained more than 13 million additional subscribers during the holiday season, for a total of 260 million.
Growth in particular due to its stricter policy in terms of sharing passwords between users and its cheaper subscription with advertising.