Netflix’s Horizon Zero Dawn Show Gets Sent to the Scrapyard

Cast your caput backmost to 2022 and callback that Sony announced its intentions to bring its sci-fi RPG bid Horizon to TV. Umbrella Academy’s Steve Blackman and Lost Girl creator Michelle Lovretta were tapped arsenic co-showrunners, and that seemed to beryllium the extremity of the communicative until we got much important accusation similar casting and writers. But surprisingly, that amusement is seemingly nary longer coming to fruition successful immoderate capacity.

Per Rolling Stone’s Cheyenne Roundtree, Netflix has opted to propulsion the plug connected the series. While details arsenic to why the streamer made this determination are presently unknown, it apt has to bash with the caller allegations surrounding Blackman. Last week, the Stone published a report detailing years of alleged maltreatment and misconduct helium enacted connected Umbrella writers and actors, up to and including manipulative behavior, crass jokes, and taking recognition for enactment that wasn’t his. Blackman denied the outlet’s allegations astatine the time, but the cancellation of this show–and his different project, the sci-fi thriller bid Orbital–effectively junk the $50 cardinal improvement woody that Netflix gave him backmost successful 2020.

Last we heard of the Horizon show, Sony mentioned this past that writing was underway for some it and Prime Video’s God of War series. (At clip of writing, that amusement is inactive believed to beryllium successful development.) Following the quality of the show’s end, writer Jeff Grubb mentioned that he’d heard the show’s scripts were considered “bad” by those footing the show’s bill, and if true, that whitethorn person besides helped seal the woody for its end. That it’s getting junked wholly alternatively of continuing connected with a caller showrunner oregon 2 lends immoderate credence to immoderate he’s heard.

Regardless, losing Horizon is a reasonably large stroke for Sony, which has been unfastened astir wanting to crook its assorted PlayStation franchises into transmedia giants. The bid has much games connected the way–a Lego spinoff comes retired successful the fall, and some a co-op crippled and MMO are successful development–but this decidedly puts a dent into immoderate expansive plan PlayStation wanted for 1 of its large headliners.

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