Star Wars: 10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About The Mandalorian

Already evidenced in Jon Favreau's willingness to drop $5 million of Disney's big bucks on the creation of series megastar Grogu, the eventual eye-watering cost-per-episode numbers that would reveal themselves later down the road suggest the producing of The Mandalorian was no penny pinching exercise.

Each entry in the 16-chapter tale was said to have cost around $15 million to produce, meaning that each of the first two seasons would've taken around $120 million to fully commit to the screen. This is similar to the cost of each of the final Game of Thrones episodes, again in the $15 million ballpark, but utterly dwarfs that HBO show's first season numbers of just $6 million-per-episode.

This absolutely pales in comparison to Netflix's Stranger Things Season 4 budget, reportedly $30 million-per-episode, and Amazon Prime's upcoming reported investment of $462 million on its first The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season, of course.

But the likes of Favreau and Filoni likely won't be in too much of a rush to match those jaw-dropping production cost numbers as long as their well-received small screen Star Wars universe continues to leave audiences clamouring for more.