Netflix Producer, Yoozoo Games CEO Lin Qi Dead at 39 Amid Poisoning Probe1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLin Qi, the billionaire CEO of Chinese video-game publisher Yoozoo set to executive produce the upcoming Netflix sci-fi series The Three-Body Problem, died at 39 on Christmas Day Friday amidst an investigation into whether he was murdered by poison.
Lin was an executive producer alongside Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss on the high-profile English-language adaptation of novelist Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem trilogy for Netflix, announced in September. The platform had acquired the adaptation rights from Yoozoo, which itself nabbed the IP back in 2015 and is at work on other Chinese adaptations of its own through an affiliate called The Three-Body Problem Universe, led by CEO Xu Yao.
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