I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
is going to have to consider this one a miss. 3 Body Problem, reportedly Netflix’s most expensive first season of a show at $20 million an episode, has already been replaced at #1 on Netflix’s Top 10 list after spending just a couple of days there, which does not bode well for its future prospects.
The new show on top is Testament: The Story of Moses, a biblical docudrama series that I am guessing has roughly 0.01% of 3 Body Problem’s budget, and that show’s performance is a legitimate concern given its high cost. From the data we know it had 11 million viewers its first four days, but at a reported cost of $160 million. Compare that to Avatar: The Last Airbender’s 21 million in 4 days on a $120 million budget.
“As the story goes on, those things increase both in number and just what the f***? intensity. There are more of those things in the second book than the first, and much more in the third book than the second. If we do justice to those things onscreen, by the time you get to the last season or two of the show, we would be giving people an experience they’ve never had before. We’re very hopeful we can get there, because it just gets wilder and wilder as you go.
The problem, as mentioned, is whether viewership merits continued investment. They’re right, the books only get even more insane from here, and as such, much more VFX heavy and likely more expensive. This is already a hugely expensive show at $20 million an episode and it seems impossible for those costs to gowith the content that needs to come, so this would be quite the investment for Netflix to continue the series.
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