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3 Body Problem: Lawyer sentenced to death for Lin Qi murder (www.bbc.com)

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The release of Netflix's series 3 Body Problem has been watched millions of times around the globe since its release late last month.

It has even found an audience in China where Netflix is unavailable, sparking much chatter among viewers of the series.

But many fans of the three-book series, credited with propelling China's nascent science fiction genre after its publication in 2008, have also been paying attention to a court room in Shanghai where one of the key players behind the adaptation was sentenced to death just a day after the show's release.

His crime? Murdering a man sometimes dubbed China's "billionaire millennial" - the gaming tycoon Lin Qi, whose company Yoozoo Games owns the rights for film adaptations of the Chinese science fiction epic.

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[-] maculata@aussie.zone 83 points 7 months ago

I don’t understand why they arrested him.

He only killed a single person.

He’s got another two left before it becomes a problem.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 32 points 7 months ago

Boooo

[-] maculata@aussie.zone 19 points 7 months ago

Thanks folks. I’m here all week. Try the fish.

[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 months ago

I watched a video on this backstory a couple days ago. It's crazy

[-] gimpchrist@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Do you have a link

[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU90vDNc3pQ

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[-] b3an@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

That’s bizarre wow. What a sick fuck. Like 5 different toxins to ensure whatever they did at the hospital would be fatal. Like they identified one, only to find the measures they took afterwards made (the mercury poisoning they didn’t see at first) worse and that’s what killed him. He made it in his own poison lab… and tested toxins on animals…

[-] PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago

This man out here living the line "kill the rich"

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I'm conflicted.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I thought it was called the Dark Forest Trilogy.

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Dark Forest is book 2. Iirc the trilogy is named Remembrance of Earths past.

[-] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

What the crap. Goodness.

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