HBO has confirmed that the creators of the Game of Thrones TV series, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, have received the green light and the funding to do a new series. It's based on an alternate reality after the American civil war, where the South seemingly managed to secede the United States and now has their own country where slavery prospers even in our time, with tensions building up for yet another civil war.
The press release mentions that we'll get to follow "a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarised Zone - freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall."
The series is called Confederate (after the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865), and the production starts once Game of Thrones has ended. Benioff and Weiss themselves have revealed that Confederate was originally planned to be a film, but they changed their mind and opted for a TV series, saying that that this will expand the possibilities.
"We have discussed Confederate for years, originally as a concept for a feature film. But our experience on Thrones has convinced us that no one provides a bigger, better storytelling canvas than HBO," they said.
Since Game of Thrones is expected to end next year or maybe 2019, a reasonable guess it that Confederate will start airing one of two years after that. Does this sound like an interesting setting for you?