Show-runners, producers and writers Benioff and Weiss stated in 2024 they intend to adapt Cixin Liu's 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' book trilogy into a total of at most 4 seasons.
The series was due to be released in 2023, but showrunners Benioff and Weiss insisted on filming one more scene that wasn't originally in the script. Right around that time the Hollywood strike of 2023 started, and it delayed the filming of this scene for a few months, yet Benioff and Weiss insisted this scene must be added. Ultimately, the scene was filmed after the strike and the show moved for a March 2024 release due to that one scene.
Three-body problem - a problem of mathematics and physics, as well as classical and quantum mechanics, regarding any three objects and the gravitational effects they may have on each other.
The 3-body problem is famous in mathematical physics for demonstrating that some problems in physics are mathematically impossible to predict with classical precision. Instead these problems can only take on qualitative solutions where one can state whether the orbit remains stable or explodes. Henri Poincaré is credited with being the first to discover this when he submitted a paper stating a solution to a famous open problem with 3 bodies, only to retract his supposed solution when to his horror he discovered not only was his solution incorrect, but the problem was in fact not computationally tractable, thereby opening up a massive field of questions in physics which are still studied today.
David Benioff & D.B. Weiss' first major Television project since the conclusion of Game of Thrones in 2019. After GoT concluded, Benioff and Weiss signed a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix and were working on the show ever since. This is their first television series on the streaming service as part of the deal.