Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Hopefully this means that their awful-sounding "Confederate" project for HBO is well and truly dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 10 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said: Hopefully this means that their awful-sounding "Confederate" project for HBO is well and truly dead. That died a silent death didn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 8, 2019 Author Share Posted August 8, 2019 19 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: That died a silent death didn't it? God, I hope so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxFan9 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 money well wasted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGamble Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 4 hours ago, SFLUFAN said: Hopefully this means that their awful-sounding "Confederate" project for HBO is well and truly dead. nope, i heard it talked about last week, its still on so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Vulture seems to think the series was canceled, Quote BO had no immediate comment on the departure of Benioff and Weiss, but sources familiar with the situation say the writers-producers do not currently have any leftover projects in development at HBO that might be produced even after they depart. This means Confederate, the controversial alt-history project that imagined a world where the South had won the Civil War, is now officially dead at HBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 My understanding is that it was cancelled as well. I still have a lot of faith in this writing team despite how mediocre/bad off-book Game of Thrones mostly was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGamble Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 24 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: My understanding is that it was cancelled as well. I still have a lot of faith in this writing team despite how mediocre/bad off-book Game of Thrones mostly was. It’s so weird that they had two years to do the final season and it still seemed rushed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 9 minutes ago, TheGreatGamble said: It’s so weird that they had two years to do the final season and it still seemed rushed. They probably felt bound to getting to some of the conclusions Martin told them about but didn't have the same pathways set up to get there and thus had to do . . . what you saw. But it really should have been better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGamble Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 5 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: They probably felt bound to getting to some of the conclusions Martin told them about but didn't have the same pathways set up to get there and thus had to do . . . what you saw. But it really should have been better. It feels like they got to the end and said, “this is hard”, and gave up. Cutting yhe the episode counts was moronic, especially when hbo wanted more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 9, 2019 Author Share Posted August 9, 2019 9 hours ago, Ghost_MH said: Vulture seems to think the series was canceled, I'm all but certain that the project was canned by HBO the day after it saw the firestorm that the announcement generated and the realization that it would be really difficult to get African-American actors to even consider the project. 4 hours ago, TheGreatGamble said: It’s so weird that they had two years to do the final season and it still seemed rushed. I bet their time was split 80% Star Wars, 20% Game of Thrones during those two years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 I don't buy the idea that they rushed the last season so they could go off and do Star Wars. It was first announced that they would be doing Star Wars back in February of 2018, well after we knew that seasons 7 and 8 would be the last, and have a shorter episode count. Even though deals like that can take a while to finalize, I doubt it took like over a year of discussions. Sacrificing a show based on a property they were passionate about to go play with another property they're passionate about doesn't make sense. I think they were just exhausted from GoT because of how much work goes into it, and were ready to move on without compromising GoT because they didn't care. They just thought they could finish it all in 13 episodes divided into two seasons, and wildly overestimated their ability to do so in a satisfying manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 Im still a few seasons behind but I saw the flack the last season got, and found this on The Chive 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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