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[King Bob]

I think I'll have to check that out

[Drunk Monk]

Likewise. 

I can't recall any Korean sci-fi. I've seen a lot of Chinese and Japanese sci-fi although nothing recently from Japan (unless you count anime). Chinese sci-fi has been booming lately although its PRC nationalism gets heavy handed. 

Have we discussed the situation with The Three-Body Problem? 

China Producer on Netflix's 'Three-Body Problem' Poisoned in Alleged Murder Plot
7:51 PM PST 12/23/2020 by Patrick Brzeski

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Shanghai


The streaming giant and 'Game of Thrones' creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss partnered with Yoozoo Group on the high-profile plan to adapt the bestselling Chinese sci-fi books. But Yoozoo's chairman Lin Qi is now hospitalized after an alleged poisoning and another executive from the company is in police custody as the lead suspect.
Netflix's high-profile plan to have [i]Game of Thrones [/i]creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss adapt the bestselling Chinese sci-fi books [i]The Three-Body Problem[/i] has been hit by a scandalous attempted-murder plot in Shanghai.
Netflix acquired the rights to produce the big-budget English-language adaptation of the hit books from Chinese company Yoozoo Group and its subsidiary Three-Body Universe, which previously had acquired the rights to the properties.
Yoozoo Group's chairman, Lin Qi, who is credited as a producer on the Netflix series alongside Benioff, Weiss and others, was hospitalized after having been poisoned on Dec. 16, according to a statement released Wednesday by the Shanghai police. Local authorities have apprehended a suspect, surnamed Xu, whom they believe to be responsible for the poisoning.
Lin subsequently died on Christmas Day, local outlets report. He was 39.
The suspect Xu, 39, has been identified by Chinese media outlets as Xu Yao, a senior executive in Yoozoo's film and television division (only his surname and age were released by police). Local reports have said that a dispute among the Chinese entertainment company's executive ranks preceded the surreptitious assault on Lin, which was allegedly carried out via a cup of poisoned pu-erh tea.
Liu's [i]The Three-Body Problem[/i] trilogy is a global publishing phenomenon. The first book in the series won sci-fi's highest honor, the Hugo Award, in 2015 — a first for an Asian writer. The series has since become an international bestseller, translated into dozens of languages, and praised by critics for its vast scope and originality.
Netflix was planning the property as a major event series, with Benioff and Weiss at the helm, and Alexander Woo ([i]The Terror: Infamy[/i]) installed as showrunner. The project also counts heavyweights such as Rian Johnson, and Rosamund Pike and Brad Pitt's Plan B among its executive producers.
On Wednesday evening in China, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau posted the following statement over its official Weibo social media account:
"At 5pm on Dec 17, 2020, the police received a call from a hospital regarding a patient surnamed Lin. During the patient's treatment, the hospital said it had determined that the patient had been poisoned. Following the call, the police began an investigation. According to investigations on site and further interviews, the police found that a suspect surnamed Xu, who is a coworker of the victim Lin, was the most likely the perpetrator. The suspect Xu has been arrested and investigations continue."
[i] The Three-Body Problem[/i]'s path from page to screen has been fraught to say the least. Back in December 2015, Yoozoo announced that it had acquired the rights and would be collaborating with the acclaimed author, Liu, to produce both a Chinese-language film adaptation and a video game version. The movie was scheduled for release in July 2016 but soon became mired in reports of problems on set, including senior personnel changes and, eventually, the firing of the entire post-production and VFX team. The release date was moved to 2017 — and later scrapped again, with Yoozoo taking no shortage of shade online from China's large sci-fi fan community. When the Netflix series adaptation plan was unveiled this September, what many in the Chinese industry had long suspected appeared confirmed: That Yoozoo had given up on adapting the hot property itself and settled on being more of a rights broker (the company also sold [i]Three-Body Problem[/i] rights to Shanghai-based streaming platform Bilibili and local animation company YHTK Entertainment for a Chinese-language animated series).
Despite the enormous industry sway that came with [i]Game of Thrones[/i], Benioff and Weiss also have walked a somewhat rocky path as of late. The duo's [i]GoT[/i] follow-up was supposed to be [i]Confederate[/i], a big-budget HBO series set in a parallel universe where the South won the American Civil War and slavery continues. But the show faced immediate backlash from black activists and thought leaders, and was eventually abandoned.
Benioff and Weiss then signed a deal with Disney's Lucasfilm to develop a trio of original [i]Star Wars[/i] movies, but they later stepped away from those plans, citing a busy schedule because of a nine-figure overall deal they inked at Netflix.[i] The Three-Body Problem[/i] is to be their first major project under that latest partnership.
The Netflix [i]Three-Body Problem[/i] series plan was hit by political controversy not long after it was announced in September. The streamer's decision to get onboard with the project was challenged by a group of Republican Senators who alleged that the company would be "normalizing" China's human rights abuses by working with Liu, the original books' celebrated author.
In a letter sent to Netflix chief content officer and co-CEO Ted Sarandos, the lawmakers quoted from a lengthy interview Liu gave to [i]The New Yorker[/i] in 2019, in which he responded to a question about China's mass internment of Uyghur Muslims in the country's Xinjiang Province, by saying, "Would you rather that they be hacking away at bodies at train stations and schools in terrorist attacks? If anything, the government is helping their economy and trying to lift them out of poverty." The Senators' letter posed a sequence of questions asking Netflix to justify its decision to proceed with the project in partnership with Liu, saying that he is "an individual who parrot[s] dangerous CCP propaganda" in the face of atrocities.
Netflix responded to the Senators one day later, noting noting that while the author may supports the Chinese government's inhumane policy, Benioff, Weiss and Netflix do not share those views. The streamer added that it "judges individual projects on their merits" and described Liu's comments as "entirely unrelated to his book or this Netflix show."
[b]Dec. 25, 3 p.m.[/b] Updated to include that Lin died on Christmas Day.

[thatguy]

I can't recall any Korean sci-fi. 

I'm sure there's more, but here's what comes to mind:
Host
Save the Green Planet (I think Craefly brought this out at a Doom gathering at his place). 
Okja (Netflix)
Aachi & Ssipak (animated)

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

I wouldn't have classified The Host or Okja as sci-fi but I could see why you add those. Both were more like Kaiju flicks to me, although Okja did have this good dystopic vision. 

I don't remember the CF showing of that. Maybe I blacked out? Wait...was that the time I came back with those weird bruises on my thighs?

[thatguy]

If you don’t remember Save the Green Planet, I recommend it highly. Maybe if you watch it, you’ll recall where the bruises came from.

—tg

[Drunk Monk]

Rewind the forum and clearly I saw it

http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...74#pid8174

I need to refresh my memory on this one.

[cranefly]

Save the Green Planet is even included in the New Korean Cinema collection on criterion.com.  I was excited by the collection, until I realized I'd seen virtually all of them.

[Drunk Monk]

StGP is on Kanopy. I just popped it into my queue and will give it a peep later until I remember wth it was about...

Kinda bums me out that I'm drawing such a blank on it. Kinda wish the same thing would happen for Cannibal Holocaust, Sinful Dwarf or Necromantic (Thanks ED, thanks a helluva lot).

[King Bob]

And Tetsuo the Iron Man?

[Drunk Monk]

And Tetsuo the Iron Man?

That was great. Especially the context of when we watched it. It was one of the great DOOM pranks. 

But I don't see that as sci-fi, plus it's Japanese...so Japanese it hurts.

[Greg]

You insisted on fighting me. Don't resent me for dying.

[King Bob]

I meant were you wanting to draw a blank on it.

[Drunk Monk]

More Than Miyagi

My next mission for Den. 

I may never escape the cobra pit.

[Greg]

All our movies are Netflix movies at this point, so....

[Drunk Monk]

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