ANDOR Showrunner Tony Gilroy Explains How The Show's Five-Year Story Will Play Out Over Two Seasons

ANDOR Showrunner Tony Gilroy Explains How The Show's Five-Year Story Will Play Out Over Two Seasons

There's a lot of intrigue surrounding how Andor will tell its five-year story over twenty-four episodes, but showrunner Tony Gilroy has finally cleared things up. Find more details on that after the jump!

By JoshWilding - Jul 05, 2022 09:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Cassian Andor
Source: Empire (via SFFGazette.com)

There was a lot of huge news that came out of this year's Star Wars Celebration, though Andor being super-sized was among the biggest (literally). The Disney+ series will consist of two 12-episode seasons, making it the longest, and perhaps most ambitious Star Wars TV show to date. 

During the event, we learned that the first season will focus on a single year in Cassian Andor's life, with the next batch of episodes spanning the following four years and taking us right into the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Many fans have wondered how exactly that odd structure will work, but showrunner Tony Gilroy has explained all to Empire (via SFFGazette.com).

"The scale of the show is so huge," he revealed. "Directors work in blocks of three episodes, so we did four blocks [in Season 1] of three episodes each."

"We looked and said, ‘Wow, it’d be really interesting if we come back, and we use each block to represent a year. We’ll move a year closer with each block,'" Gilroy confirms. "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."

So, in other words, three episodes in season 2 will represent a year of Cassian's life, meaning his story won't be too rushed as we head into that second batch of episodes. There had been chatter online about a third season, leaving many fans to assume that Lucasfilm had perhaps changed course and decided to cram four years into one season rather than one year per season.

Instead, it sounds like this might have been the plan all along, though we are intrigued about what's so important about that first year that it warrants an entire season of storytelling. 

There's not long to go until we find out, so we'd best get set for an in-depth origin story when Andor hits Disney+ on August 31! 
 

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GhostDog
GhostDog - 7/5/2022, 9:05 AM
This looks so damn good and a breath of fresh air for Star Wars, just like Rogue One was.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 7/5/2022, 9:14 AM
That's an approach I really like. The arc structure worked great for The Clone Wars, and would argue that Book of Boba Fett was also seperated into acts.

As for this season specifically, I hope we get to see a lot of underworld/shady stuff Andor got into early on in his life. After Obi-Wan Kenobi I really want to see more of The Path and Bail, so I hope we'll see that the second season.
connorblaze
connorblaze - 7/5/2022, 9:17 AM
Why can’t Star Wars go forwards with this sort of story?

I don’t understand how we’re meant to care about the story behind the story behind the story. Some folks rebelled and gave blueprints to an evil death machine to the good guys whi destroyed it. Then it was rebuilt for the same story to repeat itself over the next 45 years (death star 2, starkiller, fleet of death star ships…)
It’s not that great a plot. Can they really not come up with a new plot to pour all this money into instead of ‘here’s the untold story behind the story of the guys who gave the blueprints to the heroes.’

Hard to have stakes when you know how it ends (with the death of a character nobody cared much about).
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 7/5/2022, 9:21 AM
@connorblaze - because Star Wars really has no where to go, creatively. if it branches out, it's different and fans hate it. if it does the same thing over again, fans hate it. there's a very limited amount of things you can do with this franchise, and not just because the Fandom sucks. the whole concept isn't meant to last
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 7/5/2022, 9:29 AM
@Dredd97 - that's a great point.

Some projects like the games set in the Old Republic, the entire legends Thrawn stuff and even the Krayt/Cade Skywalker stuff down the line are great, but if the movies/shows copy that, it's gonna be dunked for being unoriginal as well.

And if they try something completely new, they might as well start a new franchise. Origin of the Jedi, Hundred Year Darkness and Bane are all stories I still wanna see though. Not entirely new, but enough room to play around in.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 7/5/2022, 9:23 AM
Infinitely more excited for this than I've been for anything SW related outside Mandalorian.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 7/5/2022, 9:25 AM
You mean the show/movie that they sat down and really planned out looks the best?

AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 7/5/2022, 10:20 AM
After the disappointing episodes 7-9, Solo, Book Of Boba Fett, the Obi Wan series, the novels and comics I just can’t get excited for anything Star Wars anymore.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Origame
Origame - 7/5/2022, 10:27 AM
Wow. They really are doubling down on the Andor show. Where was this effort for kenobi?
globaltravels
globaltravels - 7/5/2022, 10:37 AM
@Origame - too much KK interference
MrDandy
MrDandy - 7/5/2022, 11:41 AM
I was totally checked out on this when it was announced but with Tony Gilroy as showrunner and that great trailer, I’m back onboard. Getting excited for this.
GirshwinDavies
GirshwinDavies - 7/5/2022, 12:38 PM
Two seasons planned for Andor??
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 7/6/2022, 8:27 PM
I like turtles
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