ANDOR: Yes, Lucasfilm Really Did Have Plans For The ROGUE ONE Prequel To Span 5 Seasons And 60 Episodes

ANDOR: Yes, Lucasfilm Really Did Have Plans For The ROGUE ONE Prequel To Span 5 Seasons And 60 Episodes

Unbelievably, an Andor cast member has now confirmed that Lucasfilm originally planned to have the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prequel series run for five season before they eventually saw some sense...

By JoshWilding - Sep 17, 2022 01:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Cassian Andor
Source: SFFGazette.com

As you might remember, we initially heard that the plan for Andor was for the show to run for five seasons. That seemed terribly ambitious for a tale about just one of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story's leads, especially when we all know how Cassian Andor's story ends.

Following initial reports about each season being devoted to a year of the Rebel's life, Lucasfilm's approach suddenly seemed to change, and it went from being five seasons to two. It was clearly a decision made relatively late in the game, as it came following the news that season one would explore only a year of Cassian's life. 

Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy later said that this was always the plan, with the second twelve episode season devoting three episodes to the next four years. That's an unorthodox approach, and one we now know wasn't the original plan thanks to comments from the show's cast. 

Denise Gough - who plays Dedra Meero - explains (via SFFGazette.com), "We sort of signed up for five years. We thought they were gonna be five seasons of this and then thankfully Diego [Luna] was like, 'I’ll die if I do five seasons.'" 

"So they condensed it into this amazing - I don’t know how he’s done it, but he has condensed...Tony Gilroy has managed to do one more season and you’re gonna have told the whole story." A change this big is bound to affect the series and leads us to wonder how much story has been cut from the next four years in the character's life. 

Why Lucasfilm thought fans would want 60 episodes of television devoted to Cassian is hard to say, though we will give them credit for changing tact before committing to that bonkers idea. 

As for Gilroy, he wasn't fazed. "There’s a new dial on everybody’s console, which is, ‘How long should my story be? Is it three episodes? Is it seven? Is it twelve? What is it?’ You gotta pick the right number," he says. "It’s really fantastic to be able to stretch out to have just have a Dickensian amount of characters that interact and tell a massive story."

"You don’t wanna waste time, you wanna keep...your compression skills but...it’s very liberating."

We're intrigued to see how this one comes together, particularly after those glowing social media reactions. Hopefully, they can stick the landing with season 2 and we'd argue that it's better to head down this route than starting the story and never getting to finish it due to a premature cancellation! 

Andor premieres on Disney+ with its first three episodes on September 21. 
 

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Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 9/17/2022, 1:05 PM
So, a prequel to an inbetweenequel?
So this would be Star Wars Episode 3.25 then?

[frick] Hollywood.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/17/2022, 1:25 PM
Ah so instead of wasting 80% of the season like Kenobi, and doing it for 5 years, we get the whole story in two. Baby steps lol
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 9/17/2022, 2:21 PM
Really be nice to see a scene with Mon Mothma and The Emperor.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/17/2022, 2:29 PM
I think that if the initial plan was 60 episodes, the scope would've been much larger. It would've been about the whole Rebellion, and not just Andor.

Glad they're doing less than half of that though and cut up in arcs.
MaxPaint
MaxPaint - 9/17/2022, 2:47 PM
Vigor
Vigor - 9/17/2022, 2:48 PM
"Why Lucasfilm thought fans would want 60 episodes of television devoted to Cassian is hard to say"

Because it's not just about Cassian. It's about the early starters of the rebellion
HAILHYDRA
HAILHYDRA - 9/17/2022, 3:17 PM
I don’t have any problems with the character of Andor though I think Rogue One had several other more interesting characters. My problem with this show is the idea that people are so oppressed by the empire when it’s only been a regime for like 8 years at this point. I’m not saying that a regime can’t oppress people in that amount of time, but the trailers make it seem like people are rising up after being in oppression for generations. Also, the more and more they show the empire getting their butts kicked the less and less threatening they become. At this point, it’s doesn’t have that David and Goliath feel when he know that Goliath isn’t that powerful and will be brought down in like 20 years (which is a blink of an eye in terms of political regimes.)
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/17/2022, 4:39 PM
Shame, Rogue One is the best Disney Star Wars movie.
GirshwinDavies
GirshwinDavies - 9/17/2022, 5:19 PM
@marvel72 - gonna have to agree with you on that one
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/17/2022, 6:03 PM
@marvel72 - same. And Solo is the second best for me.

The Force Awakens is a really good movie as well, just not a great Star Wars movie.
SerKurtWagner
SerKurtWagner - 9/17/2022, 9:30 PM
"Saw sense?" What?!? It sucks that Gilroy got pushed into cutting a 5-season plan down into just two. What's with y'all hating on series having proper lengths?
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/18/2022, 12:37 AM
I have always been one who dislikes prequels. They just don't do anything for the stories that ended. Like there is nothing House of Dragon and Andor can do that the fans don't already know about.
smell
smell - 9/18/2022, 8:44 AM
When you put the story of your article as the whole headline you fricked up
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