By The budget of TV shows is usually a tight kept secret and so far very little was known about Netflix’s expenses on The Witcher franchise, but now Forbes has come out with a new report detailing how much has been spent on each season.
$319 Million and counting
Forbes reports that in total, Netflix has spent $318.7 million on The Witcher Season 1, Season 2 and Blood Origin. They break the numbers down as well.
$92.1 million went to The Witcher Season 1, with the average per episode being $11.5 million.
The numbers were massively bumped up in Season 2, which had a total budget of $176.3 million. The pandemic and extra costs must have played a part in that. The average per episode ends up being $22 million.
The Witcher: Blood Origin had a budget of $50.3 million, not counting the post-production and reshoots.
The report by Forbes includes neither Season 3 nor the Nightmare of the Wolf anime, and of course not even the upcoming The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep anime or The Rats series.
This means that by now the total number spent on the franchise could be well around half a billion dollars. Quite a lot of coins tossed at The Witcher.
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The Witcher Season 4 is in production for a 2025 release. Andrzej Sapkowski’s new Witcher book has a planned Winter 2024/2025 release with The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep anime set for a late 2024 release as well.
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Lauren and her team of writers tossed all that money down into the sewers…
This show looks cheap AF. I guess some responsible authorities must check show expenditures