“Citadel” cost Amazon a ton of money to make.
Perhaps if Prime Studios had only commissioned one cut of the Priyanka Chopra Jonas spy thriller…Tucked into a Wednesday Bloomberg story was the backstory of how “Citadel” came to be one of the most expensive series in TV history, with a price tag north of $250 million for one season.Amazon ended up with two different cuts of “Citadel” Season 1, per Bloomberg, one from O.G.
writers Josh Appelbaum and Bryan Oh and another semi-secret one from Joe and Anthony Russo.
What you see on the service is an expanded version of the latter, a costly decision that blew the show’s budget out of the water.An Amazon Studios spokesperson did not immediately respond to IndieWire’s request for comment on the Bloomberg story.Appelbaum and Oh originally developed a series about dueling spy rings that fit a vision from Amazon Studios chief Jen Salke,…
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