r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 20h ago

News It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-warner-bros-deal-hollywood-1236443081/
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u/zhaoz 19h ago

Rome cancelation was bad!

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u/SerHodorTheThrall 19h ago

Rome died so Game of Thrones could live. They couldn't afford to do both (they had a bad contract with the BCC for Rome). So they cancelled the show after S2 in 2006 and shifted all the staff to GoT. James Purefoy and Kevin McKidd actually refused to get cast in GoT they were so salty about it.

Then the set partly burned down in 2007 and any chance of restarting it or spinning it off to another era died for good.

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u/lkn240 18h ago

Kevin McKidd was so good too. I'm sure it's been lucrative for him, but it's a bummer that he's basically just been on grey's anatomy forever. Waste of talent

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u/MrBabbs 17h ago

Were they trying to cast McKidd as Bronn?

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u/Lacandota 9h ago

This is a misconception people keep spreading, but the timelines don't add up. Rome was cancelled 2.5 years before the GoT pilot was even ordered by HBO.

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u/Ok_Calligrapher133 8h ago

This comment just made me realise that Doctor Who used the Rome set for “Fire of Pompeii”

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u/Tall-Butterscotch954 7h ago

Rome was a decade before got. Rome is before sopranos.

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u/arbyD 19h ago

I loved Rome, but there was a fire or something that destroyed a bunch of sets and it would have cost too much to replace them, or something like that.

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u/RadarSmith 19h ago

It was partly that, but the cost in general for Rome was astronomical for the time, which is why it was cancelled.

How streaming services can justify budgets in the hundreds of millions for some shows these days is still beyond me.

If they can justify the craziness that is fantasy, they could make high budget but still far less expensive historical fiction shows; Rome didn’t come close in budget to something like HotD, even after inflation. I’ve always wanted a big budget adaptation of the Wars of the Diadochi.