'Game of Thrones' creators respond to 'alternative-history show' backlash

There was nothing unexpected about the furious Twitter response to HBO's forthcoming Confederate, a drama in which the slaveholding American south won the Civil War. 

Executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (of Game of Thrones) and Malcolm and Nichelle Spellman expected it all along, and spoke to Vulture on Thursday about their instantly-controversial show. 

“You’re dealing with weapons-grade material here," Malcolm Spellman recalls telling his colleagues in an early meeting.

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First of all it's worth noting that in Confederate, the South didn't win the Civil War — it's just that the North didn't. Read more...

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