HBO’s The Last Of Us May Be More Expensive than Game of Thrones

Television isn’t simply tv anymore. It’s blockbuster films separated into chapters. Watch the Star Wars or Marvel reveals on Disney+, Star Trek reveals on Paramount+, or any variety of large reveals on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, and you may see that the times of tv being less complicated and smaller than films are over. And the bar simply retains rising, even on the place the place this development started: HBO.

HBO, largely credited for the trendy TV renaissance because of reveals like The Sopranos, is at the moment in manufacturing on one other sequence with massive aspirations: The Last of Us. Based on the tremendous standard online game of the identical identify, the present follows a person named Joel (Pedro Pascal) who’s pressured to carry a younger woman named Ellie (Bella Ramsey) throughout a zombie-infested United States as a result of she could be the important thing to a remedy. Filming is reportedly now happening in Fort MacLeod, Alberta, Canada, and there, the top of one of many labor unions engaged on the undertaking supplied up some fascinating info to the local CTV News, through Forbes.

“This project well exceeds the eight figure per episode mark,” mentioned Damian Petti, president of IATSE 212. “So there is a multiplier effect on our economy in terms of its impact. There are hundreds of related businesses benefitting from the plethora of work.” Work that, based on Petti, started with six months of pre-production main right into a 12-month shoot. The first season is anticipated to be 10 episodes.

HBO wouldn’t remark to io9 concerning the funds or quote but it surely’s actually price remembering Petti is representing his metropolis and union, not HBO, so there’s an opportunity of some discrepancy or misunderstanding. If correct although, this quantity is fascinating as a result of it places The Last of Us, a present that appears comparatively compact because it’s primarily about two individuals, on the identical stage of the ultimate season of Game of Thrones. That present’s largest season reportedly cost about $15 million per episode. If every Last of Us installment “well-exceeds” eight figures, it looks as if a logical conclusion that it may value extra.

But why would The Last of Us be so costly? Transportation in all probability isn’t as massive of a problem because it’s taking pictures in a populated space adjoining to the United States, in contrast to the distant places favored by Game of Thrones. And there aren’t any dragons to create or elaborate fits of armor to make or armies of undead zombi… wait. Yes, sure to the final one. Budgets are sophisticated although. That eight-figure funds per episode isn’t simply going into bodily manufacturing. Some of it goes to pre-production. Part of it’s everybody’s salaries. Food. Bathrooms. And sure, numerous it goes to digital results, however that doesn’t essentially imply blue creatures operating round or large cities burning to the bottom. With visible results, it may very well be simply as costly to do large set extensions to develop the scope of the world than it’s massive motion sequences. Budgets, whether or not correct or rumored, are usually not a great way to foretell what a present goes to be.

What a funds is nice for, although, is displaying how a lot religion an organization like HBO has in a undertaking—and even when Last of Us prices half of what this means, it’s a big funding in a property with loads of expectations.

Wondering the place our RSS feed went? You can decide the brand new up one right here.