HBO boss explains why Game of Thrones prequel pilot Bloodmoon was scrapped

TheWrap

“In general for a pilot, and this is very much the case in this one, there’s not one thing that I would say, ‘Oh, this went terribly wrong,'” HBO programming president Casey Bloys tells The Wrap of the pilot helmed by Jane Goldman. “Sometimes a pilot comes together, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes even the best aspects don’t totally gel, sometimes they do. That’s kind of the little bit of luck and magic in doing shows — and sometimes they come together and sometimes they don’t.” Bloys adds: “One thing I will say though is, one of the big challenges that Jane took on beautifully, I thought, is there was a lot of invention. It was set 8,000 years before the original, so it required a lot of worldbuilding, which is a big challenge, it was a big swing.”