HBO insists Confederate delay has nothing to do with controversy

TVLine

Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been too busy with the final season and their trilogy of Star Wars films to work on the HBO alt-history drama, says HBO programming chief Casey Bloys. Confederate was greenlit in July 2017 and immediately drew controversy for its plan to imagine "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." When asked Friday about Confederate, HBO programming president Casey Bloys said it's still alive as a project. “Dan and David are finishing up the final season (of Game of Thrones) and then they are going to go into the Star Wars universe,” Bloys told TVLine. “When they come out of that, I assume they will come back to us.”