VIDEO : 'Confederate' Creators Expected Backlash

The creative team behind HBO's "Confederate" has responded to the intense backlash to their alternate-history drama. In an interview with Vulture posted late Thursday, "Game of Thrones" showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and fellow executive producers Nichelle Tramble Spellman and Malcolm Spellman addressed concerns that were raised almost immediately after "Confederate" was announced. The show will imagine a world in which slavery is legal in the South because the Southern states successfully seceded from the Union at the time of the Civil War.