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from The Daily Beast...
One positive note regarding the series is that black writers Nichelle Tramble Spellman and Malcolm Spellman will also serve as executive producers and writers on the series, and Game of Thrones is indeed a show I look forward to every week. But this harebrained idea serves as yet another reminder that the imaginations of white men can be incredibly myopic. On their idea for the series, Benioff and Weiss said: “We have discussed Confederate for years, originally as a concept for a feature film. But our experience on Thrones has convinced us that no one provides a bigger, better storytelling canvas than HBO. There won’t be dragons or White Walkers in this series, but we are creating a world, and we couldn’t imagine better partners in world-building than Nichelle and Malcolm, who have impressed us for a long time with their wit, their imagination and their Scrabble-playing skills.”