“It’s a low point in our career”: The ruined dream of the creators of The 3 Body Problem is a controversial series canceled after Game of Thrones – News Series – as seen on the Web

The series from the creators of Game of Thrones, David Benioff and DB Weiss, was born surrounded by controversy and ended up never moving forward.

An earthquake shook HBO when Netflix announced, in 2019, the hiring of David Benioff and DB Weiss, creators of Game of Thrones. The first result of this agreement valued at 200 million dollars was the series The 3-Body Problem, but this might never have happened if it weren’t for the fact that HBO canceled the next series that Benioff and Weiss were going to do through the back door.

A series that was born dead on HBO

In 2017, HBO announced Confederate, which would be David Benioff and DB Weiss’ next series on HBO. Its striking premise – it proposed that slavery continued to exist in the United States, since the Civil War stagnated and the Southern states managed to secede from the union and create their own country – quickly generated controversy with accusations of racism and the beginning of a boycott against production.

The controversial series that the creators of Game of Thrones wanted to make before The 3-Body Problem: It was canceled by the public and the studio

This meant that nothing more was heard from Confederate for a long time, and doubts soon began to arise as to whether it would actually be done. The fact that in 2018 it was announced that they would be responsible for a new film in the Star Wars saga that ended up never seeing the light of day – Benioff and Weiss would admit years later that they were very angry about it – only served to increase doubts about the series on HBO.

From HBO they assured that same year that the project was still in development, but time passed and nothing changed. David Benioff and DB Weiss’ new contract with Netflix seemed like the final sentence for the project, but the truth is that we had to wait until January 2020 for the series to be officially canceled.

In 2024, the duo of creators of The 3-Body Problem spoke for the first time about the controversial cancellation to The Hollywood Reporter. After thinking long and hard about the answer, Weiss admitted that “it’s a low point [em nossa carreira]. You try things that seem worthwhile and some work out and some don’t.”

*Translation from a partner website of QuandoCinema