Tony Gilroy Lays Out The Epic Five Year Plan For 'Star Wars: Andor'
Serialized storytelling has been one of the tentpoles of Star Wars since the beginning and it seems that the upcoming Andor series, which will debut on August 31 on Disney+ will honor this tradition. As creator, writer, and executive producer Tony Gilroy now revealed, the whole series will span a massive period of 5 years, leading right up to the beginning of Rogue One.
While the first season, made up of 12 episodes, will cover just the first of these years, this unfortunately doesn’t mean that the whole series will be told in 5 seasons, as episodes 13 to 24 of the second, final season span the four remaining years. Still, quite a leap from the previous Star Wars live-action shows that had 8 (The Mandalorian), 7 (The Book of Boba Fett) and 6 (Obi-Wan Kenobi) episodes per season and covered only weeks or months, not years.
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But the way Gilroy and his co-writers, Dan Gilroy, Stephen Schiff, and Beau Willimon structured the series into smaller pieces goes even further:
“Directors work in blocks of three episodes, so we did four blocks [in Season 1] of three episodes each.”
This scheme is continued in the second season, only that each block of three episode now represents one year:
“From a narrative point of view, it’s really exciting to be able to work on something where you do a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and then jump a year.”
As the teaser for Andor, that was released during the recent Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim revealed, the show will not just span the last five years before the events of A New Hope, but will also include some flashback scenes to a very young Cassian Andor, harking back to his quote from Rogue One, that he has been in this fight since he was six years old.
But of course, the main storyline will deal with the struggle of the various rebel cells throughout the galaxy against an Empire at the height of its power and their quest to become an actual Rebel Alliance under the leadership of Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly).
As Diego Luna puts it: “It’s quite amazing to start a show where it’s not about where we can end – it’s about, how did we end there?”
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Source: Empire