Game of Thrones creators, D.B. Weiss, and David Benioff, signed a massive deal with Netflix, worth a staggering $200 million. As they left HBO, would it be alarmed by the move? Also, what would happen to their next series, Confederate, on the cable channel?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the showrunners are set to create multiple films and television shows on Netflix. These projects are aside from their upcoming Star Wars movie.
However, their move might affect their next announced project on HBO. Vulture noted Benioff and Weiss' deal with Netflix effectively killed off Confederate. Sources even said that the duo has no projects in development on the network this time.
The show is set to take place in an alternate reality and supposed to feature the aftermath of the Confederate victory during the American Civil War. It should have been played in the American version, where slavery was not abolished yet at the time.
Meanwhile, people are worried about the future of HBO. However, the network's head of programming for three years, Casey Bloys, stays confident.
After Benioff and Weiss ended Game of Thrones, the two moved to Netflix. Bloys even said HBO dropped out of the bidding when what they were asking did not make "economic sense" for the network and WarnerMedia, per The Los Angeles Times.
Anyhow, Bloys is no longer concern about Game of Thrones. He is more interested in discussing how people are starting to discover the greatness of Succession or the excitement that is still surrounding Chernobyl and the success of Euphoria.
HBO will also try to venture on the comic book adaptation of Watchmen. It also has an upcoming collaboration with Stephen King, titled The Outsider, which will be out in 2020. By the looks of it, even without Weiss and Benioff, the network has a lot of shows to do on the list.
Bloys, who has been at the network for 15 years, appreciates everyone's care for HBO. However, he is never worried about its future. He denies the rumors that AT&T, the channel's new owner, wants to inject a mass-production mindset onto the network.
Although HBO's 2019 fall slate shows 50 percent growth in programming hours, he cleared it was the plan long before AT&T came. "We needed more programming," he said. "You can't have two shows a year and imagine people will sit by and wait for them. You have to have more."
