Game of Thrones show runner to make series about slavery


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With Game of Thrones about to wrap up, the next project from its showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, has been set at HBO. It will be a new original series called, Confederate.

According to its official description, the series "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."


In addition to Benioff and Weiss, two prominent black producers are on the team. Nichelle Spellman (Justified, The Good Wife) and Malcolm Spellman (Empire, and the upcoming Foxy Brown series on Hulu) are partnering with them as executive producers and writers on the series.
 
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