WHOA! Game Of Thrones Season 8 To Have Record-Breaking Budget!

I don’t think it comes to the surprise of anyone that Game of Thrones is known for its extensive budget. It’s a high fantasy series, after all, and given how massive of a hit it is, it makes sense HBO would put out the cash necessary to make the world as believable as possible. Plus, with every new season, the network would likely gain confidence to funnel even more cash to help propel things forward even more.

With Season 8 of Game of Thrones, they look to be taking things to a whole new level. According to the outlet Variety, the final season of the show will have a ridiculous $15 million per episode budget. Now, those numbers may mean nothing to you, so let’s go ahead and put things into perspective.

The pilot for Game of Thrones cost around $5-10 million, and the entirety of the first season cost around $55 million. That means that each episode cost around or above $5 million an episode. The budget for each season slowly increased, with them rising to around $8 million an episode. The sixth season of the show brought each episode to around $10 million, which is already on par with three other of the highest costing TV series: The Crown and The Get Down.

That’s quite the steep increase, but we also have to keep two things in mind. Number one is that as the series has gone on, the scale has increased substantially, so it makes sense that things would get costlier. Perhaps most importantly, we also have to remember that they’re planning on these final episodes to be longer than ever, with episodes rumored to be 80-plus minutes in length.

Regardless, it’s a fitting budget for a series that’s had this much of an impact on the medium of television, and while TV budgets should by no means be an arms race for networks, it’s nice to know they’re at least putting in the money where it needs to be.

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SOURCE: Variety

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