For context, two episodes of Citadel cost more than the entire first season of Prime Video’s A League of Their Own, which is rumored to be getting a truncated final season at the streamer.Īnd the spending on Citadel is far from over - THR reports that Amazon has already signed on for three seasons of three versions of the show, with productions already underway for Italian and Indian iterations of the series. Now Season 1 contains six 40-minute episodes instead, which would make each episode’s cost around $50 million if the budget did in fact add up to $300 million. That shift altered the original structure of the first season, which consists of eight hour-long episodes as part of the original plan.
Creative differences sent production into an expensive round of reshoots, driving up the cost to nearly $300 million. The studio is also putting much of its faith in the second-most expensive series to date, Citadel. While neither caused production to stop for long, each was an added cost on an already pricey production. On March 21, a horse died of a heart attack on set, and on April 3 a fire broke out at Bray Studios, the U.K. But recent news of struggles on the set of the new season are foreboding. But its big debut didn’t lead to much more than that, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, only 37 percent of domestic viewers watched the entire series.Īmazon Studios head Jennifer Salke doesn’t seem too worried about those numbers, which are less than ideal in the industry, telling THR that she has high hopes for what Season 2 has to offer. Amazon Studios bet big on Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 had a budget of $715 million, making it the most expensive series ever made.
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