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HBO confirms that ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ is the low-budget version of ‘Game of Thrones’
Although the cost per episode is much lower, the creators promise that the battles will be up to par.
The adventures of a wandering knight and his loyal squire. This is the premise of ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’, the new spin-off of ‘Game of Thrones’, which takes place about 100 years before the main series. The first season will consist of six episodes, and the per-episode budget is significantly lower than other productions in the saga, Francesca Orsi, HBO’s president of drama series, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
“We’re doing a ‘Game of Thrones’ spinoff titled ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ for under $10 million in episode, [which is peanuts] relative to what ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘House of the Dragon’ cost episodically,” she explained. The fact that the budget is lower does not mean that the quality is lower, it is simply adapted to the story being told, as these George R.R. Martin stories are also on a smaller scale. There are no dragons or large-scale battles, although Orsi stressed that the fight scenes will be up to par.
“And the battle sequences that the directors achieved match those across ‘Game of Thrones’ and are a fraction of the price, so it’s a lesson for us that we need to be challenging these budgets,” she enthused. In the last season of ‘Game of Thrones,’ the cost per episode was about $15 million, while ‘House of the Dragon’ costs about $20 million.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ opens at Max sometime in 2025.
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