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As far as Netflix is concerned, The Witcher is always a topic of conversation, although lately that hasn’t been good news. As fans’ complaints grow over the plot changes either controversial decisionsnow we have known the real budget of one of the star series of the video on demand platform.
And it is that the specialized portal Forbes has had access to the figures of the fiction starring Geralt de Rivia and now we know that Netflix has already spent over $300 million on The Witchera number that does not yet include what is invested in the imminent third season or what will be invested in seasons 4 and 5, which would be shot consecutively.
More than 300 million spent on The Witcher
According to information from Forbes, Netflix invested 11.5 million per episode in the first seasonwhile in the second the budget increased to 22 million per chapter, almost doubling it. The most surprising data is, however, that of the prequel miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin, for which $50.3 million in its four episodes and this without counting the re-recordings to which the production had to undergo.
In this case it gives us a total of $12.6 million for each episode of Blood Origin, thus being more expensive than the first season of the series, which had twice as many chapters, and offering a considerably lower visual finish. For now, Forbes has not been able to provide information about the third season of the Netflix series, which will premiere this June and which will mean Henry Cavill’s farewell to history to welcome Liam Hemsworth in the same role as Geralt. from Rivia.
That being the case, and taking this data into account, Netflix has spent 319 million dollars in the first two seasons of The Witcher and in its spin-off Blood Origin, which makes it one of the great investments of the North American company. For reference, however, we have that only the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power cost Amazon $485 millionwhich far exceeds what Netflix invested in The Witcher.
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Remember that the third season of The Witcher opens with its first half on June 29while the second part will be hard to come by until July 26.