STAR WARS: ANDOR Head Writer Elaborates On Not Using The Volume And The Show's Link To ROGUE ONE

STAR WARS: ANDOR Head Writer Elaborates On Not Using The Volume And The Show's Link To ROGUE ONE

Andor Head Writer Tony Gilroy has explained his recent comments that the series doesn't make use of The Volume, while also elaborating on how this show leads directly into the events of Rogue One...

By JoshWilding - Aug 09, 2022 05:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Cassian Andor
Source: THR (via SFFGazette.com)

Andor's first season will span 12 episodes, with the second (and final) season running for the same length. This makes it easily the biggest Star Wars TV series on Disney+ to date, and many fans have wondered why Cassian Andor's story needs to play out over such a long period. 

However, we know the first 12 episodes will span one year, with the next twelve split into four three-episode blocks. Each of those is set to take place over a year before we reach Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Talking to THR (via SFFGazette.com), Andor Head Writer Tony Gilroy elaborated on exactly how this series will connect to that 2016 movie. "Our last scene of the show, our 24th episode, will walk the audience directly into Rogue One and directly into the first scene of Rogue One," he confirmed. 

In the same interview, Gilroy was also asked about his comments that Andor is the first and only Star Wars TV series to not use The Volume (the newly created LED stage that creates the backgrounds we've seen in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett). 

"The technology is extraordinary and it’s going to become a larger and larger force in filmmaking," the writer said. "Nobody’s against the volume, the volume is fantastic for the things that it’s for. Our show was just on a massively epic scale and people would be running off the set all the time. Right now, there’s no good way to do both."

"You have to make a decision to be a volume show or a non-volume show. You can’t jump back and forth. There are some things that we wish we could have done on volume, they might have been simpler. But our show is huge," Gilroy added. "We have 211 speaking parts. It just didn’t lend itself to that kind of production."

The team working on Andor is certainly taking a unique approach to telling this story, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Whether Cassian's life before we met him in Rogue One needs that much time to breathe is hard to say, though everything we've seen from the show thus far looks excellent. 

Andor is set to premiere on Disney+ on September 21.

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TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 8/9/2022, 6:07 AM
Wish they had learned this difference before Obi-Wan.
Blergh
Blergh - 8/9/2022, 6:07 AM
All this tells me is that the budget for this has to have been massive
Batmandalorian
Batmandalorian - 8/9/2022, 6:23 AM
Really wasnt to interested in this character in rouge one. It wasnt like i needed to know his backstory. Hopefully the show changes that.
thewanderer
thewanderer - 8/9/2022, 7:44 AM
I'm no expert, but I imagine you CAN be a volume show and non-volume show at the same time, and that will eventually be the norm.

The industry is just still figuring out the best way to use this new technology.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 8/9/2022, 7:49 AM
@thewanderer - think it comes down a lot to logistics, which especially during pandemic times are hard to plan.

Think now it is become easier, so they're definitely figuring it out.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 8/10/2022, 12:55 AM
That slight spoiler about how Andor will end in it's 2nd Season is now what has me the most intrigued to know since Rogue One's opening is Jyn's origin story too when Krennic shows up to capture her father and kills her mother. Maybe there'll be some parallel set of scenes showing how the set is staged for that as we see in another scenes what Cassian is doing at the same time somewhere else.
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