War of Succession? HBO boss rejects writer’s spin-off idea
, has revealed that the episodes aired in March will be the show’s final outing, but he has also hinted that he is considering a spin-off drama that would follow one of the popular show’s Machiavellian central characters or bleak themes.
Armstrong might have some convincing to do, however. Whatever his fellow writers on the show decide, the boss of HBO, the powerful entertainment production house based in Los Angeles, believes a sequel would not “seem a natural thing”.Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images for BFI, Casey Bloys cast doubt on the prospects of a spin-off.
“I feel sad, and I have the circus-has-left-town feeling that everyone gets who works on a production that’s good, and this one particularly so,” he toldlast week. “I imagine I’ll be a little bit lonely, and wandering the streets of London in a funk.”, said he had known where the story should end from around the second series, but admits it is, in some ways, a “perverse decision” to pull the plug on such a successful drama.
“I’ve never thought this could go on forever. The end has always been kind of present in my mind,” he said. “But the feeling there could be something else in an allied world, or allied characters, or some of the same characters – that’s also strong in me. Maybe there’s another part of this world we could come back to, if there was an appetite?”
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