The #Brexit Could Be Bad News for #Game_of_Thrones | Foreign Policy
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/21/the-brexit-could-be-bad-news-for-game-of-thrones
The European Union helps fund production of HBO’s epic in Northern Ireland. If the U.K. leaves, that money could too.
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That’s because if the U.K. votes to leave the EU, it would take Northern Ireland with it, potentially robbing HBO of one of the show’s primary filming locations. It takes a lot of cash to depict Jon Snow and thousands of Stark loyalists defeating Ramsay Bolton’s forces to take back Winterfell, a scene shot there and aired this past Sunday.
That leaves HBO looking for partners to help pay for the show, and some of that money for it comes from the EU’s European Regional Development Fund, created to spur economic growth across the European Union. If the U.K. leaves, filmmakers might not be eligible to draw from that fund. This means that some of the cash used to bring big-budget productions to Northern Ireland could disappear.
