Since the HBO show premiered in 2018, many parallels have been drawn between the fictional media family, the Roys, and the real-life Murdochs.
The son of rupert murdochLachlan, “accused brother James of leaking lines to the writers of succession“, says a new report replicated by the portal NME.
Since the program HBOThe multi-award-winning, released in 2018, many parallels have been drawn between the fictional media family, the Roys, and the real-life Murdochs. Despite this, the show’s creators have not given any explicit confirmation of any direct inspiration.
In a new article about the Murdochs for Vanity Fair, a source is quoted as claiming that Lachlan accused his brother James Murdoch of leaking stories about the family to the show’s writers, and Lachlan later told their father Rupert. Lachlan denies that the stories were sold.
The creator of HBO’s acclaimed satirical drama, Jesse Amstromg, said several times that the series is inspired by more than one real-life family. “We think of famous media dynasties like the Hearsts, to the most current Redstone (owners of Viacom and CBS), John Malone (the octogenarian owner of Formula 1), Robert Fitz of Comcast, Robert and Rebekah Mercer (founders of Breitbart ) and the Murdochs. Many reality millionaires, ”he said for example in an interview for the platform site.
But although he often repeats that the plot also has twists that evoke the succession of the Sulzbergers, the family that owns the New York Times; or the Bancrofts, who sold the Wall Street Journal to News Corp; and to any dispute between brothers over the businesses that made their families rich, Armstrong himself admitted to HBO that he relies “deeply” on the story of the Murdoch clan, owner of News Corp (the group that controls, among other media in the world , the Times, The Sun, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, HarperCollins, and Fox News).
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