According to the WeChat public account of "Three-Body Universe", at the Golden Goblet Film Forum of the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival on June 16, Wang Changtian, chairman of Light Media, announced a major news: the new "Three-Body" movie jointly produced by Light Media and Three-Body Universe will be directed by Zhang Yimou.

At 10 a.m. on June 18, the Golden Goblet Film Forum "The Potential and Imagination of Global Diversified Development of IP" co-organized by Three-Body Universe will be held in the Golden Goblet Hall of Silver Star Crown. At that time, Three-Body Universe will reveal more information about the development of Three-Body IP.

Liu Cixin's sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem has been released in TV series and animation, but the development of the live-action movie version has been full of twists and turns. The movie version of The Three-Body Problem was filmed as early as 2015, directed by Zhang Fanfan, and was scheduled to be released in 2016, but in 2016, it was reported that it was shelved indefinitely. After 2017, the film was almost "no news".

In June 2020, the official Weibo account of the movie "Journey to the West: Hero is Back" released an announcement, announcing that its production company October Culture will be the producer of the live-action theater movie "The Three-Body Problem", and the director of "The Three-Body Problem" Tian Xiaopeng will become the director of the live-action theater movie "The Three-Body Problem". In an internal letter to employees by Wang Changtian, president of Enlight Media, it was announced that Yi Qiao, president of Enlight Color Strip Pictures, would serve as the director of October Culture, and that "we must mobilize all resources to support it". At the end of 2020, the news came that Lin Qi, the founder and chairman of Youzu Interactive, the copyright holder of the Three-Body Problem, was poisoned to death. Since then, there has been no news about the development of live-action movies.

In 2023, Zhao Jilong, CEO of Three-Body Universe, revealed in an exclusive interview with a reporter from The Paper that the company is very cautious about all film development and has been looking for suitable adaptation ideas and story presentations, hoping to make bolder progress under a more complete industrial system.