Whereas Andor Season 1 passed off over the course of 1 12 months in Cassian Andor’s life, Season 2, which premieres subsequent month on the 2025 TV schedule, will cowl the remaining 4 years that result in his look in Rogue One. So why not have this Star Wars sequence run for 3 further seasons and provides followers almost half a decade extra value of leisure to stream with their Disney+ subscription? Nicely, that was initially what was going to occur, however in keeping with Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy, two particular points required the shift in plans.
Gilroy mentioned this topic as a part of the Andor unfold within the newest subject of SFX Journal. The showrunner, who beforehand wrote further scenes for Rogue One following the conclusion of principal pictures and labored with director Gareth Edwards on the reshoots, supposed for every season of Andor to cowl one 12 months within the lifetime of Diego Luna’s character as a member of the Insurgent Alliance. Nevertheless, that went out the window because of the unbeatable enemy of all, time. It was a transfer “born out of desperation,” with Gilroy explaining:
We had been midway by capturing season one, coming by Covid, and the monumental dimension of the present, the hassle and all the pieces else was simply dawning on us. We realised that I didn’t have sufficient energy to do it, and Diego’s face couldn’t take the timing, as a result of it simply takes too lengthy to make it. We had been saved by Disney saying, ‘Okay, for those who guys can determine a technique to do it, we’re into it.’
When Andor Season 2 premieres on April 22, it is going to have been a bit of over two and a half years since Season 1 began airing. Granted, the writers and actors strikes in 2023 performed into the lengthy hole, however even ignoring them, it’s an intensive feat placing collectively Star Wars TV reveals. One would possibly argue it’s much more so than the Star Wars motion pictures contemplating there’s extra than simply two hours of content material being written, filmed, edited, and so forth. Andor Season 1 started rolling cameras on the finish of November 2020 and didn’t end till September 2021.
So not solely did Tony Gilroy understand that he didn’t have it in him to make three extra seasons of Andor, there was additionally the matter of that being an excessive amount of time for Diego Luna’s face. Keep in mind, the actor shot Rogue One in 2015 and the film was launched on the finish of 2016. If an excessive amount of time handed engaged on Andor, then abruptly his youthful model of Cassian Andor would find yourself wanting older than he did in his final chronological look.
So as a substitute, it was determined to cowl the remaining 4 years of Cassian’s life throughout three episodes every of Andor. Not solely that, every trio of episodes can be launched weekly, which means Andor can be carried out by Might 13. Tony Gilroy shared his ideas on this Disney+ rollout thusly:
It’s a captivating experiment and I don’t know if anybody’s ever carried out it earlier than. We’re going to leap a 12 months between every block, and we’re going to make use of that damaging house in a very fascinating manner, coming again for 3 days at a time, so it’s like a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. The problem is, how do you come again [to start each chapter]? We wished to have it’s as elegant and seamless as potential, and simply hit the bottom operating. There was loads of experimentation to guarantee that would work.
Whereas it’s regrettable that Tony Gilroy’s unique five-season imaginative and prescient for Andor didn’t work out, I take consolation realizing that as Diego Luna identified, that “in a manner, we did 4 motion pictures.” Positive, we received’t be exploring his years as a Insurgent as in-depth as what was carried out in Season 1, however it’s not an insignificant chunk of time both. Possibly if the pandemic and the aforementioned strikes hadn’t occurred, these 5 seasons may have occurred, however I’m simply grateful that the present can have a definitive ending deliberate forward of time. The identical can’t be stated for The Acolyte.
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