The final season of “Game of Thrones” has already broken a previous record.
According to reports, HBO is increasing the budget for the eighth and final season of the critically acclaimed TV show. The upcoming season will cost over $15 million per episode, the largest per-episode budget ever given to a TV show.
In past seasons, the standard for expensive TV shows has been around $10 million per episode.
The final season of “Game of Thrones” will be just six episodes and will all reportedly be feature-length. The longest episode of the series so far remains the season seven finale, which clocked in at 80 minutes.
The HBO show isn’t one to run away from enormous budget. For season seven, the lead stars – Emilia Clarke (Daenerys), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lanister) – reportedly received $2 million each.
“Game of Thrones” should return for its final season in 2018 or 2019.
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