'Game of Thrones' sixth season cost $100 million king's ransom to produce
It took a king’s ransom to produce the latest season of “Game of Thrones.”
The brainiacs behind “Game of Thrones” worried that their vision for the HBO series’ sixth season would be too hard and too expensive for the cable channel to produce.
Alfie Allen and Sophie Turner in "Game of Thrones" season six. Producers spent a whopping $100 million on 10 episodes.
Each episode cost more than $10 million to produce, meaning dropped over $100 million on the season, EW first reported.
“They are almost embarrassed when they turn in the scripts to HBO,” actor Liam Cunningham, the actor who plays Ser Davos Seaworth told The Daily News.
The pair, he said, never believed that they would be able be granted the funds to properly conjure up the sheer spectacle of the production — which grows more expensive each season.
“At this point, when a television show has become this successful, it becomes a business thing,” said Cunningham.
"They (producers) are almost embarresed when they turn in the scripts to HBO,” actor Liam Cunningham, the actor who plays Ser Davos Seaworth told The Daily News of how ambitious his bosses are when writing each episode the HBO fantasy.
“In other words, many people will rest on their laurels because they have a tried-and-true formula — I can absolutely assure you that’s not what’s happened here.”
Cunningham said that the show’s producers somehow figured out a way to “stretch this elastic even further.”
The Sunday-night series has amassed millions of obsessive fans with its breathless power struggles, breathtaking scenery, messianic characters, bloody beheadings and nudity.
Fans have been dissecting every frame of the recent teaser clips, looking for hints at how the epic will unfold now that co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss have sped past Martin's most recent book in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga.