HBO’s upcoming Sport of Thrones spin-off Home of the Dragon is ready to be an costly sequence for the corporate.

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In line with a current report from Selection, Home of the Dragon will price “beneath $20 million” per episode to supply its 10-episode first season. For comparability, Sport of Thrones price HBO round $100 million per season, with the eighth and ultimate season costing $15 million per episode to supply.

The explanation for Home of the Dragon not requiring far more than its predecessor merely boils all the way down to HBO now figuring out what it takes to create a majority of these fantastical worlds. The report notes that HBO having data from not solely engaged on Sport of Thrones, but additionally sequence’ like Westworld and His Darkish Supplies, have made it a lot simpler for them create high-quality sequence extra effectively and for much less cash.

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Primarily based on George R.R. Martin’s Hearth & Blood,  Home of the Dragon chronicles the rise and the downfall of the Targaryens, who’re the one household of dragonlords to outlive the Doom of Valyria. It’ll happen 300 years earlier than the occasions of the award-winning sequence adaptation of Sport of Thrones which aired its ultimate episode practically two years in the past.

The ten-episode sequence might be led by Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, and Emma D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen. It’ll additionally function Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Eve Finest, Sonoya Mizuno, Milly Alcock, Emily Carey, Graham McTavish, Ryan Corr, Jefferson Corridor, David Horovitch, Matthew Needham, Invoice Patterson, Gavin Spokes, Wil Johnson, John Macmillan, Savannah Steyn, and Theo Nate.

Home of the Dragon hails from George R.R. Martin, Ryan Condal, and Sport of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, with Condal and Sapochnik additionally connected to function showrunners. Govt producers are. Govt producers are Martin, Sapochnik, Condal, Vince Gerardis, and Sara Lee Hess.