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40 years before HBO took over the pop cultural zeitgeist with the end of "Succession," the beginning of "The Last of Us," and a whole host of buzzed-about shows in between, the network was a popular upstart with one thing on its mind: making movies. By 1983, America's first premium cable network had already made a name for itself with broadcasts of live sporting events and reruns of recently released films, and executives at HBO had big hopes for the channel's foray into original movies. "It may not rival the discovery of the proscenium arch, but I'm sure it will have the biggest impact on the entertainment industry since the advent of television itself," CEO Michael Fuchs told The New York Times at the time, noting that the move

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