I know some people were wondering this after the Netflix deal. Looks like this confirms it.
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HBO's Confederate series canceled as showrunners leave the network
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I thought this was already canceled ages ago. Or was that the other equally ill-conceived Confederacy concept? There were two, right?
don't worry, whatever they end up developing for netflix will no doubt be just as ill-conceived, or as poorly executed as the last few seasons of GoT. these dudes are failing all the way to the top, babyyyyy
i'd like confirmation from Netflix that they aren't considering picking it up before I can say "good"
When it was announced there was a huge backlash and then HBO just stopped talking about it, which is why it felt like it had been cancelled.
To be fair I don't think HBO > Netflix is failing to the top. It's not a big downgrade (and it may not be a downgrade in pay) but it's a downgrade.
I must have taken it for granted. Bad on me!
Also am I crazy or were there two of these shows? 🤔
The award nomainated hugely financially successful final season of GoT?
These guys aren't being hired because they are some Art house geniuses. They made bank for their employers.
I think that depends entirely on how much they're being paid. I don't think that prestige gap is as big, in people's perception, as it used to be. Also, the deal is just them "developing" shows, which probably means they're getting paid big bucks to develop a concept, maybe write and direct a pilot, then hand it off to other showrunners while they keep cashing fat Executive Producer credits for doing fuck-all. But that's my pessimism talking, maybe I'm wrong. but between getting Star Wars and this, I don't see how they can be meaningfully involved in a mega-blockbuster movie franchise and several shows at once.
I would have still been a bad idea if it wasn't 2 white dudes who had it, but these 2 white dudes makes it much worst than just a dumb idea
It's a huge upgrade in pay. Ginormous. As for prestige or whatever, that's up to them.
You're probably thinking of HBO's comment last July that the show was technically still on the cards.
I don't think we're on a different page here. The prestige gap is very small, but it's still there. And they may be getting paid more than they were. I just don't think it's clearly 'upwards'. HBO to anywhere else on TV is downwards.
I hate the last season(s) of got as much as the next resetera guy,but come on people get some perspective they are the creators of the most successful tv show of the last decade,theres no studio in the world which wont greenlit whatever the fuck they want no questions asked including a confederate tv show.
The forum is still salty about D&D I see. I mean, the last season of GoT was rushed, but I don't put all the blame on them, but I equally also blame actors wanting new things, GRRM for not having any new material in 8 years and the public for unreasonable expectations.
D&D are money makers, so obviously everyone wants them.
As for the Confederate series, I believe is best for everyone that is cancelled. No more fuel for white supremacists is needed.
D&D are money makers, so obviously everyone wants them.
As for the Confederate series, I believe is best for everyone that is cancelled. No more fuel for white supremacists is needed.
I'm wondering the same myself.
I'm glad this garbage this dead, but part of me wanted to see a pilot, out of morbid curiosity more than anything.
There's a real question of how much creative involvement they'll even have at this point. They'll probably just sit back on the Star Wars stuff and Lucas it the fuck out to all the other production departments.
No, I think there's a second one by Amazon, but it's actually written by black people, so less ill-conceived.
Already done as mockumentary in 2004.
The entire thing is available on YT. The racist ads were ...um... yeah..I'm not providing a link.
The entire thing is available on YT. The racist ads were ...um... yeah..I'm not providing a link.
And nothing of value was lost.
Still don't even remotely give a shit about whatever D&D are doing next, though. Zero faith in those dopes.
Still don't even remotely give a shit about whatever D&D are doing next, though. Zero faith in those dopes.
Ah, maybe it was that. And it does sound much better: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/amazon-black-america-show
Alternate history stuff can be fun (see Man in the High Castle), but the setting of this one just doesn't work currently due to the ramping up of BS lately thanks to Trump and his ilk
There was a point to the racist ads. This movie is really well done and a great watch.
Not going to lie, I don't really know too much about these two showrunners but the concept had me intrigued. Man in the High Castle is really good and shows how scary that world would be, I was hoping for something similar with this.
