Brexit might be throwing the world’s economy into a tailspin and its people into an angry frenzy, but at least it won’t affect production on the last two seasons of “Game of Thrones.”
The HBO juggernaut films primarily in Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, which voted Thursday night to secede from the European Union.
Under the EU, “Game of Thrones” has the option of dipping into the European Regional Development Fund, which was set up to lure movies and television shows to film in Europe. There were concerns that being cut off from that fund might be a problem for financing the show’s final two seasons, although secession from the EU won’t happen for two years.
According to Quentin Schaffer, executive vice president for HBO corporate communications, the show will not have to beg for money from the Iron Bank of Braavos any time soon.
“We do not anticipate that the result of the EU referendum will have any material effect on HBO producing ‘Game of Thrones,'” he said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
Schaffer also said the show has not received funding from the fund “for the past few years.”
This is good news for fans expecting the show to continue to churn out bigger and more elaborate battles, like the epic clash for the North depicted in the June 19 episode, “The Battle of the Bastards,” which was billed as one of the most expensive sequences in television history.
