OFFICIAL Game of Holmes Season 8 Thread - A Dream of Flat Tops 4/14/19

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It's also funny how the showrunners ruined their careers by rushing things. They were on top of the world when GoT blew up, but after season 8 their Star Wars Show got cancelled and they haven't been heard from since. They should have done ten seasons, but at the same time, with the pandemic hitting in 2020, it would have been impossible to produce a show that was shot it several different countries between 2020 and 2022.

Their new show comes out early next year on Netflix. Adaption of The Three Body Problem. Which will probably be a bloated mess but could be a hit given how successful the books are. The way they rushed GoT in order to get a Star Wars show that didn't even end up getting green lit is pathetic though.

Another thing I'd note, which has been said before, is that there are casual fans who liked the last seasons. My parents loved them for instance. So I kind of wonder if the negative reactions were largely internet based. The success of House Of The Dragon suggests that the brand wasn't as damaged as people assumed it would be.
 

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Their new show comes out early next year on Netflix. Adaption of The Three Body Problem. Which will probably be a bloated mess but could be a hit given how successful the books are. The way they rushed GoT in order to get a Star Wars show that didn't even end up getting green lit is pathetic though.

Another thing I'd note, which has been said before, is that there are casual fans who liked the last seasons. My parents loved them for instance. So I kind of wonder if the negative reactions were largely internet based. The success of House Of The Dragon suggests that the brand wasn't as damaged as people assumed it would be.

Despite what they did in Season 8, they have proven that they are very good at adapting original material.
 

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Their new show comes out early next year on Netflix. Adaption of The Three Body Problem. Which will probably be a bloated mess but could be a hit given how successful the books are. The way they rushed GoT in order to get a Star Wars show that didn't even end up getting green lit is pathetic though.

Another thing I'd note, which has been said before, is that there are casual fans who liked the last seasons. My parents loved them for instance. So I kind of wonder if the negative reactions were largely internet based. The success of House Of The Dragon suggests that the brand wasn't as damaged as people assumed it would be.
Nah it wasn't just on some internet shyt. I did the Game of Thrones tour while in Dubrovnik and tour guide was taking nonstop shots at the last couple of seasons. She was even telling us that for the last season the governer/mayor was hosting a weekly watch party. By week 3 or 4 so few people were showing up that they just had to cancel.
 

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Forget widescreen: Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss say HBO‘s one-time owner AT&T actually requested the series be shot vertically so it could be watched on cell phones.

In a new article in Wall St. Journal‘s WSJ Magazine to promote their upcoming Netflix series 3 Body Problem, Benioff and Weiss open up about why they ditched their longtime perch at HBO for the streaming service.

“When you sign a five-year deal with a company,” Benioff says, “you want that company to be stable so you can be left alone to do your work and not have to worry about it being bought by the phone company.” The pair left HBO for Netflix just several months after the Game of Thrones 2019 series finale in what WSJ estimates was a deal worth between $200 million and $300 million.

Other disagreements with AT&T included execs’ proposal of shooting “snackable mini-episodes” of the epic series.

“Dysfunction kills more projects than anything else,” Weiss tells the magazine, “whether it’s interpersonal
dysfunction or institutional dysfunction.”

Benioff and Weiss also confirm a long-standing rumor that the duo pitched the idea of bringing GoT to a close with three feature films rather than what would eventually come to pass: 13 episodes spread over two seasons.

HBO executives rebuffed the idea, reminding the creators that, as Benioff says, they were making a series for “Home Box Office” and not, as Weiss adds, “Away Box Office.”

3 Body Problem is thought to be one of Netflix’s most expensive projects ever, with WSJ estimating the per-episode cost “in the $20 million range.” Based on a popular science fiction book series by Chinese author Liu Cixin, the series, which debuts this spring and is the first Benioff-Weiss collaboration with third showrunner Alexander Woo, chronicles “a slow-moving alien invasion of Earth.”

Says Benioff, “One of the things that attracted us to this was how terrifying it was to contemplate adapting these books, because they’re so vast.”
 

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Forget widescreen: Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss say HBO‘s one-time owner AT&T actually requested the series be shot vertically so it could be watched on cell phones.

In a new article in Wall St. Journal‘s WSJ Magazine to promote their upcoming Netflix series 3 Body Problem, Benioff and Weiss open up about why they ditched their longtime perch at HBO for the streaming service.

“When you sign a five-year deal with a company,” Benioff says, “you want that company to be stable so you can be left alone to do your work and not have to worry about it being bought by the phone company.” The pair left HBO for Netflix just several months after the Game of Thrones 2019 series finale in what WSJ estimates was a deal worth between $200 million and $300 million.

Other disagreements with AT&T included execs’ proposal of shooting “snackable mini-episodes” of the epic series.

“Dysfunction kills more projects than anything else,” Weiss tells the magazine, “whether it’s interpersonal
dysfunction or institutional dysfunction.”

Benioff and Weiss also confirm a long-standing rumor that the duo pitched the idea of bringing GoT to a close with three feature films rather than what would eventually come to pass: 13 episodes spread over two seasons.

HBO executives rebuffed the idea, reminding the creators that, as Benioff says, they were making a series for “Home Box Office” and not, as Weiss adds, “Away Box Office.”

3 Body Problem is thought to be one of Netflix’s most expensive projects ever, with WSJ estimating the per-episode cost “in the $20 million range.” Based on a popular science fiction book series by Chinese author Liu Cixin, the series, which debuts this spring and is the first Benioff-Weiss collaboration with third showrunner Alexander Woo, chronicles “a slow-moving alien invasion of Earth.”

Says Benioff, “One of the things that attracted us to this was how terrifying it was to contemplate adapting these books, because they’re so vast.”

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It took them 5 years but they finally got the courage to juelz.gif away why they ran the show off a fukking cliff.

GRR Martin practically begged them to go 10 seasons and they declined. So blaming HBO is some bullshyt. HBO didn't force them to start writing horribly, or that garbage ass ending.

If they nail "3 Body Problem" and the later books, it would go a long way towards redeeming themselves, though.

Fred.
 

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Finally admitted the rumor that come out awhile ago that instead of seasons 7 and 8 they wanted to make 3 movies. 8 hours of a rushed ending that’s all spectacle and no substance over 13 hours of rushed spectacle.

They were clearly over making Thrones but hubris kept them from hiring a writing room or giving more responsibility to the directors.
 

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:unimpressed:

It took them 5 years but they finally got the courage to juelz.gif away why they ran the show off a fukking cliff.

GRR Martin practically begged them to go 10 seasons and they declined. So blaming HBO is some bullshyt. HBO didn't force them to start writing horribly, or that garbage ass ending.

If they nail "3 Body Problem" and the later books, it would go a long way towards redeeming themselves, though.

Fred.
One of the biggest fumbles in the history of Western civilization :scusthov:
 
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