The day after the sci-fi drama 3 Body Problem premiered on Netflix, lawyer Xu Yao was sentenced to death in China for poisoning the series' billionaire executive producer Lin Qi.

A former gaming executive was sentenced to death in China for fatally poisoning a billionaire now credited as a producer on Netflix's '3 Body Problem.' ...

Xu Yao poisoned the food of company founder Lin Qi in December 2020 because of a dispute over the running of the business, the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court said.

"3 Body Problem" tragedy: Former exec Xu Yao was sentenced to death for murdering the Netflix show's producer Lin Qi.

Yoozoo owns the film rights to "The Three-Body Problem," a best-selling Chinese science fiction trilogy, and Xu headed up a subsidiary in charge of business related to it, according to Chinese ...

Lin Qi, a billionaire fan of “The Three-Body Problem,” had big plans to bring his favorite Chinese sci-fi novel to TV, cinema and video-game screens across the world.

Yoozoo owns the film rights to “The Three-Body Problem,” a best-selling Chinese science fiction trilogy, and Xu headed up a subsidiary in charge of business related to it, according to Chinese ...

It was at this dire moment that Xu Yao, chief risk control officer of Yoozoo, entered the picture, and the fate of Lin Qi and “The Three-Body Problem” adaptation took a drastically different turn. In ...

Netflix Mr. Lin’s fate would change when he hired Mr. Xu, a lawyer, in 2017 to head a subsidiary of Yoozoo called The Three-Body Universe that held the rights to Mr. Liu’s novels.

Lin Qi, who helped bring "3 Body Problem" to screens, died before the series aired. He was poisoned in 2020 by Xu Yao, who headed up a subsidiary that oversaw adaptations of the book. Now, more ...