HBO announces next project for Game of Thrones showrunners titled 'Confederate'
With four Game of Thrones spin-offs currently in the early development stages, we now know why both David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, will not be working on those spin-offs!
“Game of Thrones” creators/showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will return to HBO with their new original series titled CONFEDERATE, announced earlier today by Casey Bloys, president, HBO Programming.
"We have discussed CONFEDERATE for years, originally as a concept for a feature film,” added Benioff and Weiss. “But our experience on ‘Thrones’ has convinced us that no one provides a bigger, better storytelling canvas than HBO."
Per HBO's official announcement, “Confederate” chronicles the events leading to the Third American Civil War. The series takes place in an alternate timeline, where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution. The story follows a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone – freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall.
CONFEDERATE will be written and created by Benioff and Weiss, who will also serve as showrunners on the series. Partnering with them as executive producers and writers on the series will be Nichelle Tramble Spellman (“Justified,” “The Good Wife”) and Malcolm Spellman (“Empire,” the forthcoming “Foxy Brown”). Carolyn Strauss (“Game of Thrones”) and Bernadette Caulfield (“Game of Thrones,” “Big Love”) will also join as executive producers.
Production will begin following the final season of “Game of Thrones.”
