House of the Dragon Budget Per Episode Is Under $20 Million
HBO's Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon will have a significantly smaller budget than some of its upcoming blockbuster rivals. While the fantasy epic's final season left many fans of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series disappointed, expectations for House of the Dragon to evolve into something greater are high. The show will follow the Targaryen family that ruled Westeros for nearly three decades, particularly during a period known as the Dance of the Dragons.
Because the flagship Game of Thrones series concerned events some 200 years after the prequel's civil war, long after the last dragons presumably died out, the mythical creatures rarely reared their heads until the final few seasons. House of the Dragon, on the other hand, revolves around the bloody war that features the beasts and their riders on the front lines. Because of the elaborate CGI, massive Shakespearean set pieces, and star-studded cast, the production design is likely as big — if not bigger — in scale as its predecessor.
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With that in mind, Variety reports that the per-episode cost of House of the Dragon season 1 is just under $20 million. The figure is slightly higher than Game of Thrones season 8's per-episode budget, around $15 million. According to the production insider from HBO that revealed the costs, HBO got away with the surprisingly low sums due to their experience navigating expansive world-building series like GoT, Westworld, and His Dark Materials. They said that "the team can make a high-quality series as efficiently and effectively as possible."
Compared to rival Amazon's roughly $465 million budget for The Lord of the Rings: The
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