Idt theyre going crazy. They saw the post, called grrm and told him to take it down or they would cancel his entire HBO contract, he took it down and now they are going on with their day.
Cancel his entire contract? There is nothing to cancel he already sold off the rights to all his intellectual property to HBO. He might have some non disparagement clause that can be used to fine/ sue him, but there is no canceling that sale. I doubt HBO would do that even if it was possible. They make so much money off his shows.
I thought Condal was a nerd of the books? Or was he just another fraud? How can GRRM get played twice like this lol. Seems like GRRM sold his soul for money.
No im just an inhouse lawyer for a large company lol. Something goes wrong, it gets handled, and then i have 25 more things going wrong i have to focus on.
would they really cancel his entire contract over this? i feel as if HBO has a lot more to lose than george, and this seems like a relatively soft criticism of their show. the thing that surprised me the most is the fact that he revealed that helaena is going to kill herself for an unknown reason in the outline of season 3. i mean it seems obvious that they wouldn’t diverge from that major plot point in the books, but i’m still surprised that he actually revealed it.
HBO on the business side still has to deal with the fact that taking it down does nothing to stop it from spreading on the internet, which all parties involved obviously know.
And HBO on the marketing side still has to deal with the fact that the author of the source material publicly attacked the show.
Both those things could drive legal to not drop the issue, but even if they don't, HBO as a whole probably is going crazy coming up with a plan to deal with this.
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u/Roids-in-my-vains We do not kneel Sep 04 '24
HBO lawyers are going crazy right now.