David Zaslav welcomes Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters as they visit the Warner Bros. lot on Dec. 17. Warner Bros. Discovery In a phone call hours before Netflix sealed the deal for Warner Bros. on Dec. 4, Ted Sarandos played hardball with David Zaslav: Sign a deal for Netflix to buy Warners today, or we're pulling out of the bidding. It was a message hammered home in an email that Netflix's attorneys at Skadden sent to their counterparts at Debevoise and Wachtell Lipton.