Amazon developing 2 new shows which have the potential to blow game of thrones out of the water.

[FlyRy]

Neither one of these will touch Game of Thrones.

Amazon can't even make a show better than Youtube Red yet

 

[Tical]

Amazon has zero track record of making anything good, let alone great, let alone on the level of GoT

 

[BillBanneker]

East of West sounds interesting, but I don't think it can touch game of thrones.

 

[Tribaligenesis]

Amazon has zero track record of making anything good, let alone great, let alone on the level of GoT

In regards to East of West ,it really depends on the budget Amazon is willing to spend on it. It has everything Game of thrones has including epic battles , the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, political machinations (might actually have game of thrones beat on that). 7 nations compromising what would have been the US. Potential Wakanda with the Kingdom of New Orleans.

 

[Hopeofmypeople]

East of West will never take of, it works in a comic setting but not all things can transcend the media it originated from. The concept will be considered to far and out and it will require a huge budget. It might be one of those shows that garners a loyal following but won’t be mainstream.


The boys is going to be scaled down, it has to be because some of the shyt in it is absolutely vile. I still remember a scene in the comic where one of the heroes had fukked a little boy in the ass and one of the other heroes comments on how he can smell the blood from the boys a$$hole or something like that. I just don’t see a successful adaptation of this series.

 

[hostsamurai]

The only content I think could touch Game of Thrones is The Warlord Chronicles, based on King Arthur and The Last Kingdom, if it was given Game of Thrones budget. They could even put black people in The Warlord Chronicles as there was a Numidian presence in Britain after the fall of the roman empire.

Like other "historical" takes on the Arthurian legends, the series postulates that Post-Roman Britain was a difficult time for the native Britons, being threatened by invasion from the Anglo-Saxons in the East and raids from the Irish in the West. At the same time, they suffered internal power struggles between their petty kingdoms. Like Marion Zimmer Bradley in her novel The Mists of Avalon, Cornwell also presumes friction occurred between the old Druidicreligion and Christianity.

The story is written as if it took place in Dark Age Britain as described in the original Welsh legends, with appropriate types of technology, culture, warfare, and attitudes. Cornwell also weaves later additions such as Merlin and Lancelot into the plot.

The protagonist of the series is Derfel Cadarn (pronounced Derv-el), based on the part-legendary Saint Derfel. Cornwell's Derfel is a Saxon brought up as a Briton by Merlin, the greatest of all Druids. In the course of the story, he becomes a great warrior and one of Arthur's warlords in his war against the Saxons. Merlin, meanwhile, concerns himself with trying to restore the old gods of Britain. Other characters from the Arthurian mythos are given significant and memorable twists. For example, Lancelot, always portrayed as the most virtuous and the mightiest of Arthur's knights, here is depicted as an arrogant, cowardly and self-serving petty prince, whose legendary feats and martial prowess are crafted through the songs of the bards and a fictional reputation that he himself carefully cultivates. Sagramor is a Hungarian prince in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, but is depicted here as a Numidian veteran of the old Roman Army who joined Arthur's service after the collapse of the Empire. Cornwell portrays Merlin as a lecherous, driven, mischievous and irreverent druid.[citation needed]

Also interesting is his solution to the problem of integrating the magic of the Arthurian mythos in the context of historical fiction: he leaves room for the reader to take the "magic" depicted in the story at face value or to interpret it as a mixture of coincidence, psychology, primitive technology and illusion which preys on the superstitions, religious fundamentalism and intolerance of the time

 

[jay211]

The only content I think could touch Game of Thrones is The Warlord Chronicles, based on King Arthur and The Last Kingdom, if it was given Game of Thrones budget. They could even put black people in The Warlord Chronicles as there was a Numidian presence in Britain after the fall of the roman empire.

Warlord Chronicles are very good.

 

[Chapter_BLK]

I'm curious to see how they handle an East of West. I'm not a fan of Hickman's pacing at all but a tv series might make it work

 

[tjax03]

Only thing close to game of thrones was Vikings and Spartacus


Black sails was decent too

 

[StatUS]

No love for Man in the High Castle out here