ARCANE’s showrunner talks about its risky $250 million budget and how it was worth it

Arcane‘s $250 million budget has been a hot topic of conversation over the past couple of weeks as it makes the project the most expensive animated series ever made.

Even though some people think it’s crazy that the series costs so much, in my opinion you can see every penny of that budget in the series. This is truly one of the best shows on television and it is reaping the benefits of the great risks it took.

When you talk about the risks that this show took, showrunner Cristiano Linke he says that even though the budget is “high”, he thinks it was worth the risk.

“I think one of the difficult things about the creative world is that if you do risky things or things that make people raise their eyebrows, if you stick the landing you’re a visionary genius. If you don’t stick the landing, you’re an idiot. And there’s really no way around it.”

WELL, Arcane definitely stuck the landing! Everyone who saw this show loved it. Linke goes on to explain:

“There was a book called Loonshots. Talk about how easy it is to doubt, how cheap it is to doubt, because success is unlikely. If it fails, you are right and it was an easy investment for you. If you’re wrong after not believing it, then, hey, you know, it was unlikely. It’s just cheap to doubt.”

He added: “You expose yourself when you take big risks and people will attack you. People will question you. It’s not so much that I feel vindicated. It’s just that I think it’s good to see that we haven’t wasted people’s value.” money.

“I think that’s the only way to really say it. We don’t do it to be megalomaniacs. We have always dreamed of the quality of animation we see in films. We want to see it in serialized content and animations. It really just started from there, because we love animation.”

Whatever it took to make this series happen, I’m happy it exists. I’m happy that the creative team could tell this incredibly fantastic, heartbreaking, and powerful story the way they did.