The Game Of Thrones Creators' Controversial Next Project Takes On The American Civil War
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are responsible for creating the massively successful HBO adaptation of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Thanks to Game of Thrones, one might imagine that the cable network would give a greenlight to literally any idea the duo has next.
It seems as though this is the case.
HBO announced that it develop the writing team's next series: an alternate history series that takes place in an alternate timeline in which the Confederate States of American won the Civil War in the United States. The show, called Confederate, will depict a USA in which slavery was not abolished and continues to be legal in the modern day.
Here is how HBO describes the show:
The story takes place during what's called the Third American Civil War and follows a group of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, now a demilitarized zone. The groups the characters belong to are vast and include freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists and others. One specific group are the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families they control.
Hmm.
Oh dear.
Maybe... I dunno. No?
Right?
Well, I don't call the shots at HBO, and what I think is a potentially terrible idea is, apparently, not an opinion shared by Benioff, Weiss, or anyone at HBO for that matter.
"As the brilliant Game of Thrones winds down to its final season, we are thrilled to be able to continue our relationship with Dan and David, knowing that any subject they take on will result in a unique and ambitious series," Casey Bloys, president of HBO Programming, said in a statement. "Their intelligent, wry and visually stunning approach to storytelling has a way of engaging an audience and taking them on an unforgettable journey."
OK! Well, RIP your mentions.
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