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Announced in July 2017, the duo's proposed series Confederate was to take place in an alternate timeline where the South successfully seceded from the Union, creating a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution The story would be told from the perspectives of a broad range of characters on[...]

Along with the sample, Green's tweet also revealed what the second season would've been titled: Lovecraft Country: Supremacy along with the hashtag "#noconfederate." And that's what's been eating us ever since- that hashtag Because it reminded us of a series pitch that HBO was looking to develop back in 2017 that suffered a quiet death[...]

Netflix has built something astounding and unprecedented, and we're honored they invited us to join them." – David Benioff & Dan Weiss So what does that mean for the fate of HBO's Confederate, the duo's alternative-history take that speculates on what America would be like if the South won a civil war The project was met with[...]

HBO programming president Casey Bloys updated the media on two very different, polarizing projects during their Television Critics Association's (TCA) executive session on Wednesday: Damon Lindelof's authorized adaptation "remix" of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 limited comic book series Watchmen; and alternate history fiction series Confederate, from Game Of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B[...]

This week, Bleeding Cool‘s Weekly Static shifts gears and moves to a single topic each week - but still gives you five cool TV posts to check out, too!

Presidential Election (…yup…still…) and a lifetime supply of Lay's Korean Barbecue potato chips: https://youtu.be/xa8k0TrKLiUVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Weekly Static s01e26: Gronkowski, Gaiman, MLK & More! (https://youtu.be/xa8k0TrKLiU) [Super Bowl 52] Watch Justin Timberlake Perform the Halftime Show I Have a Dream… That Chrysler Actually Listened to MLK's Speech Before Using it in an Ad Rob[...]

Why is that so interesting? That was when the duo were supposed to begin work on Confederate: their controversial alternative-history follow-up series for HBO Benioff and Weiss are still working on the final season of Game of Thrones; and if they are looking to start work on Star Wars immediately following GoT, that would leave the pair[...]

We've seen the backlash to HBO's Confederate, a planned alternate-history drama by Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B Weiss along with Nichelle Tramble Spellman and Malcolm Spellman set in a fractured United States where there have been multiple Civil Wars and slavery is still legal. But Dave Bautista, star of the movie Bushwick, has found himself "unnerved" by his own movie[...]

As today's white supremacist protests in Virginia hold the world's attention, filmmaker and comic book writer Max Landis has been following along and making introspective comments like this one: https://twitter.com/Uptomyknees/status/896430041906552833 And this: https://twitter.com/Uptomyknees/status/896430952502579200 And this line of thought, along with the violence at the protests… https://twitter.com/Uptomyknees/status/896430616744411136 …has led Landis to another observation: https://twitter.com/Uptomyknees/status/896435905434599424 HBO recently announced the alt-history drama Confederate, which is set in[...]

HBO has released a statement in response to the organized protest of the upcoming alternate history show Confederate from David Benioff and D.B Weiss, the showrunners of Game of Thrones. Credit: Suzi Pratt via Wikimedia Commons The hashtag #NoConfederate trended on Twitter during Sunday's premiere of the third episode of Game of Thrones Season 6, the result of[...]