The principal cast of HBO’s hit fantasy series Game of Thrones have extended their contracts beyond the current season order.
Fortunes may be falling across the fictional landscape of Westeros, but the cast of HBO’s Game of Thrones has definitely made bank. The series’ top tiers of actors have renegotiated their contracts with the network, and scored significant raises.
Most significant for fans of the epic fantasy series is the fact that the actors’ contracts have been extended for a potential seventh season. At the start of last season, Game of Thrones was renewed for both a fifth and sixth season of intrigue, sex, and dragons.
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A seventh season has not yet been ordered by HBO. However, given the overwhelming popularity of Game of Thrones, and the frequent intimations by showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss that their vision will take the story through seven seasons, it would seem that the odds definitely favor a renewal beyond season six.
As is becoming increasingly frequent among high-profile television casts, the top tier of Game of Thrones actors – including Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emilia Clarke, and the Emmy Award winning Peter Dinklage – reworked their salaries as a group. Actors in lower tiers, like Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, and Natalie Dormer, will also be awarded smaller raises, and presumably signed on for the show’s theoretical seventh season.
Game of Thrones season 5 will air in Spring 2015 on Sundays at 9:00 p.m. on HBO.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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