HBO Spent a Huge Amount of Money on Axed 'Game of Thrones' Pilot
The amount of money that HBO spent trying to bring another Game of Thrones series to life has been revealed.
If you don’t know, HBO originally began working on a spinoff show starring Naomi Watts back in 2018. In 2019, Naomi teased that fans would not be let down by the show.
By October 2019, it was revealed that the show was no longer moving forward.
Click inside to find out how much money was spent on the show while in production…
In a new interview with former WarnerMedia chairman Bob Greenblatt, he revealed the amount.
“They had spent over $30 million on a ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel pilot that was in production when I got there,” he told James Andrew Miller for his new oral history of HBO, “Tinderbox.”
“And when I saw a cut of [the pilot] a few months after I arrived, I said to [HBO head of content Casey Bloys], ‘This just doesn’t work and I don’t think it delivers on the promise of the original series.’ And he didn’t disagree, which actually was a relief,” he added.
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