'The Rings of Power' Is the Most Expensive Television Show Ever Made
By Jamie LernerSep. 1 2022, Published 1:30 p.m. ET
This is the summer time of bringing delusion again. After House of the Dragon premiered to high approval rankings on HBO, another long-awaited prequel is in any case here: The Rings of Power. Unlike many different high-profile fable series, The Rings of Power lives on Prime Video.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an eight-episode sequence and is the most expensive television series ever made. Yes, even more dear than Game of Thrones. It follows new characters thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit at a time all the way through which peace used to be about to be disrupted. So what's its budget per episode and how does it examine to different collection?
‘The Rings of Power's’ budget per episode is ready $58.1 million.
The Rings of Power surpassed Stranger Things to grow to be the costliest television collection ever made at a budget of $58.1 million per episode, in line with the Wall Street Journal.
And if we upload within the $250 million it value Amazon to buy the rights to Lord of the Rings, it’s if truth be told $89.Four million per episode. That’s over 3 times as much as the present most expensive sequence, Stranger Things Season 4, which price $30 million per episode.
Luckily, Amazon has the second richest guy on the earth, Jeff Bezos, in the back of it. With a total of $715 million spent on The Rings of Power’s first season, that’s most effective .forty six p.c of Jeff’s web worth of over $153 billion. So for a large Lord of the Rings fan like Jeff, making The Rings of Power is barely a drop within the bucket.
And if it brings in 5.1 million extra Amazon Prime subscribers, it is going to just ruin even on its first season, so it seems that The Rings of Power is more of an investment and fervour undertaking than it is a moneymaker for Amazon.
‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘House of the Dragon’ cost a lot not up to ‘The Rings of Power.’
In comparability to The Rings of Power, Game of Thrones and its spinoff prequel House of the Dragon are low-budget series. Despite its high-quality CGI, prestigious rating, and massive forged of actors, Game of Thrones used to be ready to handle a budget of simply $6 million per episode all the way through its first five seasons.
By Season 6, its budget went as much as $10 million, even if many enthusiasts will say that that’s when Game of Thrones started its decline in quality. Its ultimate season, which used to be seriously panned, price $15 million per episode.
While enthusiasts are playing House of the Dragon up to now, its budget remains to be far not up to that of The Rings of Power. At $20 million per episode, it's HBO’s most costly collection so far, matching the budget of its different giant budget sequence, The Pacific.
The only different series that experience related budgets are the Disney Plus MCU series, all of which fall at about $25 million per episode. However, with those at generally most effective six episodes, their total budgets are a ways not up to the HBO and Amazon presentations. Let’s simply hope that The Rings of Power lives as much as its pockets.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premieres on Prime Video at 9 p.m. EST on Sept. 1.
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