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Lin Qi, chairman of Yoozoo Group in 2018. [File photo/VCG]
The online game company tycoon Lin Qi, who also holds copyrights for movie and TV adaptations of the Chinese sci-fi epic The Three-Body Problem, was allegedly poisoned by a film executive.
The dramatic rumor was rampant on social network platforms for days, with some internet users claiming that Lin, chairman and chief executive officer of Yoozoo Group, was rushed to Intensive Care and was suffered such severe poisoning that he was in a vegetative state.
Yoozoo released a statement on Wednesday to elaborate on the situation: In the last week there was a sudden emergency but the company s executives have returned to normal since. The statement revealed that Lin had acute uncomfortable symptoms on the evening of Dec. 16, when he was on the way home, and that he decided to go to the hospital himself. The hospital contacted the police during the treatment process. Lin remains hospitalized but has
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Lin Qi, founder of the Chinese video game publisher Yoozoo and a producer on Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem,” has been hospitalized after what Shanghai police characterized as an attempted murder plot by a colleague.
Lin was hospitalized last week with “acute symptoms of illness” believed to have stemmed from an attempted poisoning, according to the South China Morning Post. Shanghai police released a statement on Wednesday saying a 39-year-old man with the surname Xu had been identified as a suspect in a “major crime,” which local reports linked to Lin and Yoozoo.
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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
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss adapt the bestselling Chinese sci-fi books
The Three-Body Problem 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.