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Game of Thrones is the sort of industry dominating, pop culture titan that comes around every so often and totally changes the game. And while the characters fought for the Iron Throne, the show made its stars wealthy in real life.

The HBO show brought the world of Westeros to life straight from the pages of George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and became a breakaway hit that fans are still talking about four years after the grand finale.

It’s such a beloved franchise that it expanded with the release of a new spinoff series House of the Dragon, which started in 2022 and was almost instantly renewed for a second season.

The original cast is made up of an incredible group of talented actors. Some of them, especially the youngest stars, came to fame with Game of Thrones and have gone on to find success elsewhere. Take Sophie Turner, for example, who brought Sansa Stark to life and went on to join the X-Men franchise, portraying one of the universe’s most powerful heroes.

Others enjoyed successful careers before joining the series and continue to star in major projects across the globe in 2023.

Who has amassed the largest approximate net worth over the years? We did some digging and put together a ranking from lowest to highest. With a worth of approximately $120 million, the top earner has the competition beat by a landslide.

Scroll through the slideshow to see a ranking of the wealthiest members of the Game of Thrones cast based on their estimated net worth…

George R.R. Martin is pursuing legal action alongside several famous authors.

The Game of Thrones writer joins the Authors Guild, John Grisham, Michael Connelly, Jodi Picoult and a group of other famous fiction writers in a class action lawsuit on Wednesday (September 20) against OpenAI, claiming the AI technology is infringing on their works, via Deadline.

The authors claim that OpenAI copied their works “wholesale, without permission or consideration,” and argue that the company fed their works into large language models, “algorithms designed to output human-seeming text responses to users’ prompts and queries.”

“Generative AI is a vast new field for Silicon Valley’s longstanding exploitation of content providers. Authors should have the right to decide when their works are used to ‘train’ AI. If they choose to opt in, they should be appropriately compensated,” author Jonathan Franzen said in a statement.

Read the full complaint here.

Other authors in the case include David Baldacci, Mary Bly, Sylvia Day, Elin Hilderbrand, Christina Baker Kline, Maya Shanbhag Lang, Victor LaValle, Douglas Preston, Roxana Robinson, George Saunders, Scott Turow, and Rachel Vail.

The lawsuit seeks class certification, an injunction prohibiting their works from being used in the large language models without authorization, unspecified actual damages and, alternatively, statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work, via Deadline.

Terrence Hart, general counsel of the Association of American Publishers, said in a statement: “We agree that unauthorized use of literary works by AI developers presents serious questions of law that cannot simply be dismissed with assertions that the technology is ‘innovative.’ Innovative for whom? At what cost? Under what rules? We will follow the lawsuit closely.”

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Game of Thrones is the sort of industry dominating, pop culture titan that comes around every so often and totally changes the game. And while the characters fought for the Iron Throne, the show made its stars wealthy in real life.

The HBO show brought the world of Westeros to life straight from the pages of George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and became a breakaway hit that fans are still talking about four years after the grand finale.

It’s such a beloved franchise that it expanded with the release of a new spinoff series House of the Dragon, which started in 2022 and was almost instantly renewed for a second season.

The original cast is made up of an incredible group of talented actors. Some of them, especially the youngest stars, came to fame with Game of Thrones and have gone on to find success elsewhere. Take Sophie Turner, for example, who brought Sansa Stark to life and went on to join the X-Men franchise, portraying one of the universe’s most powerful heroes.

Others enjoyed successful careers before joining the series and continue to star in major projects across the globe in 2023.

Who has amassed the largest approximate net worth over the years? We did some digging and put together a ranking from lowest to highest. We asked a second question, too: How does the wealthiest member of the cast compare to George?

Scroll through the slideshow to see a ranking of the wealthiest members of the Game of Thrones cast based on their estimated net worth…

Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin is responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed TV shows in recent memory, but he doesn’t think they’re the best of all time.

The original series based on his novels was critically acclaimed and remains a fan-favorite years after its conclusion. Spinoff series House of the Dragon premiered in 2022 and was renewed for a second season.

He took to his blog to react to a Vanity Fair article that listed the Game of Thrones episode “Blackwater” as one of “25 perfect TV episodes from the last 25 years.” That is one of four episodes he wrote for the show.

While he appreciated the praise, he revealed the episode that he considers “even more perfect than all the others on the list.”

Head inside to find out what George R.R. Martin called the most “perfect” episode…More Here! »

Television shows take a lot of money to make.

The average broadcast network drama costs $3 million an episode to produce, while cable dramas cost $2 million on average, however, all the shows on this list surpass that by at least 10 million more!

Just Jared is diving into the most costly television and streaming series per episode, and to our surprise, one series that we thought would be at the top, is actually near the bottom!

Click inside to see which were the most expensive shows to make…

House of the Dragon is coming back with Season 2 soon, and it’s going to have less episodes than the first season.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, director Claire Kilner spoke out about the episode count for Season 2 of the hit HBO series, a prequel spinoff of Game of Thrones.

If you didn’t know, the show was renewed for a second season back in August 2022, just six days after its premiere. In March of 2023, it was revealed that the second season would consist of eight episodes, as opposed to 10 episodes in the first season.

Keep reading to find out more…More Here! »

The Game of Thrones story is continuing with the forthcoming spin-off based around Jon Snow, and at least one star wants in on the action.

If you didn’t know, there’s a series in the works based around Kit Harington‘s character from the hit series, and one of his co-stars just admitted that they texted the actor 36-year-old actor about possibly making an appearance.

Keep reading to find out more…More Here! »