Jason Momoa is a pretty big deal right now. From ruling as king of the oceans and the box office as Aquaman to playing Duncan Idaho in the upcoming Dune film, this guy is everywhere. And like the fictional ruler of Atlantis, it’s good to be king, at least when it comes to budgets. Momoa is set to star in the upcoming Apple TV+ series See, a show that the Wall Street Journal reports will have a $15 million budget per episode. Woah.
Disney is spending roughly $100 million on the first season of its live-action Star Wars show, The Mandalorian, but Apple’s See is reportedly running a tab that comes out to be $15 million per each 60-minute episode…that’s insane, folks! “That is more than the cost of a typical independent feature film,” as WSJ puts it.
To put that into context, a little show on HBO called Game of Thrones once spent a whopping $8 million to produce the season 2 episode “Blackwater,” and that was because of the show’s first real battle. By season 6, Thrones was spending $10 million per episode, and by season 8, that number ballooned to $15 million per. However, Game of Thrones was the largest most popular show on the planet and was concluding its eight-season run. For a new show to start at that amount, is pretty wild.
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Of course, if anyone has the money, its Apple, and with other streaming services like Disney+ dropping mountains of cash on The Mandalorian, there is a certain amount of pressure to keep up. No one wants to be the show that looks cheap, especially as the streaming wars begin to heat up.
See, described as an “epic, world-building drama set in the future,” is set for a debut later this year. We can’t wait to “see” our man Momoa back in action. Okay, that was a terrible pun. Forgive me.
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