STAR WARS: ANDOR Now Likely To Run For 3 Seasons Despite Lucasfilm's Original 5 Season Plan

STAR WARS: ANDOR Now Likely To Run For 3 Seasons Despite Lucasfilm's Original 5 Season Plan

Andor's cinematographer has revealed that Lucasfilm originally intended to tell this story over five seasons, but plans have changed, and it's now likely to play out over three. Read on for details...

By JoshWilding - Apr 25, 2022 06:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Cassian Andor
Source: SFFGazette.com

We recently brought you news that Andor, the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story spinoff coming to Disney+ later this year, is expected to begin shooting its second season this November. With Lucasfilm booking 18 months of shooting time at Elstree Studios, there had been speculation that they might be considering filming seasons 2 and 3 back-to-back, and that may have now been confirmed. 

During a recent interview with TVCultura, Andor's Cinematographer, Adriano Goldman, revealed that the original plan was for the show to run for five seasons. However, something has changed, and it seems this story will instead be told over three. "The series I worked on was supposed to be five seasons long," he explained, "but I think it’s not happening. It will now have three maybe."

That certainly lends some weight to the rumour Lucasfilm is looking to shoot Andor's next two seasons at the same time, but it's looking like that is where the show will end. Bespin Bulletin would later weigh in to say Lucasfilm deliberately chose to set the series five years before Rogue One so they could deliver multiple seasons. However, it seems they may have concluded that five is a couple too many.

There could be any number of reasons for this, of course. A five-season commitment is a lot to expect from a cast, and as fascinating as it will be to follow Cassian Andor's story before he met Jyn Erso in the early days of the Rebel Alliance, five batches of episodes could stretch the story too thin.

Three seasons, on the other hand, sounds like a good amount of time to let the story breathe, explore Cassian as a character, and better flesh out this exciting time in the Star Wars franchise's history.

Stay tuned to SFFGazette.com for more on Andor as it comes in. 

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TheManWithoutFear
TheManWithoutFear - 4/25/2022, 6:02 AM
For a project that supposedly comes out this year, i have seen almost zero buzz around it whatsoever. I wonder if that is a factor.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/25/2022, 6:10 AM
I was kinda expecting a two parter already, given that Disney+'s seasons are mostly 6-8 episodes long and Andor is twelve.

Wonder if this is gonna adapt some underworld and syndicate stuff too then though, since I'm not sure how long the proto-rebellion can stay interesting. Especially after Rebels already did it as well
tylerzero
tylerzero - 4/25/2022, 6:27 AM
Counting chickens before they hatch…
dragon316
dragon316 - 4/25/2022, 6:30 AM
@tylerzero - wouldn’t be first time
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 4/25/2022, 6:34 AM
@tylerzero - How could that go wrong? Eggs are basically pre-chickens already, right? I mean... unless sometimes the eggs have two chickens in them, right? That's just bonus chickens, as far as I'm concerned, but let's go ahead and assume a 5% twin-chicken rate for a total return of 105% chicken-to-egg ratio, since it will look good on our quarterly projections.

We are going to have so many [frick]ing chickens, man!

tylerzero
tylerzero - 4/25/2022, 9:13 AM
@Spock0Clock -

Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 4/25/2022, 6:29 AM
Luna's a strong lead, and was probably the most compelling of the Rogue One crew, but I don't get how Star Wars stuck themselves with a franchise with an already-dead protagonist in an era that already feels sufficiently explored by Rebels.

How have they not just green-lit a New Republic-era Corran Horn series at the point?
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 4/25/2022, 6:49 AM
I know it's kind of a dick move to ask "who asked for this", but really...

...who even asked for this?
Blergh
Blergh - 4/25/2022, 7:04 AM
I'll keep saying it: 4 seasons is the sweet spot for any TV show!
kg8817
kg8817 - 4/25/2022, 8:56 AM
I’ve been a Star Wars fan since I was in diapers. I’m 34 now.

I grew to love Rogue One and appreciate it, although at the time I was not enamored with it.

I mean this sincerely that I have absolutely ZERO interest in watching this and cannot, for the life of me, understand how Disney thought this was a good idea for a show set a few years before ANH.

You want a story with minimal budget that explores a story we don’t know that could have potential set during that time that would grab old and new Star Wars fans? Why wouldn’t you make a show focusing on Bail Organa and his role in the Rebellion and all of that? Jimmy Smits knows how to lead a show! But even that is kind of treading old ground, but it would garner more enthusiasm than this.

Having this show follow up Obi-Wan Kenobi is setting it up to be dead in the water, and casual Disney+ viewers will just be wondering when Mandalorian S3 returns.
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/25/2022, 9:07 AM
Rogue One is without a shadow of doubt, the best Disney Star Wars movie.




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bobevanz
bobevanz - 4/25/2022, 9:07 AM
Three seasons of a soon to be lack luster show... yay....
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 4/25/2022, 9:29 AM
I really don’t know how you squeeze 3-5 seasons out of a character who was arguably the least interesting of all the characters in the one movie he was even in
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/25/2022, 9:49 AM
@Ha1frican - Best character in Rogue One.



RealTurner
RealTurner - 4/25/2022, 9:51 AM
@Ha1frican - Not to mention, 3-5 seasons stuck with him as the "jaded killer rebel" he started that movie as.
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 4/25/2022, 10:01 AM
@marvel72 - Absolutely. Not even close.
pyramosteu
pyramosteu - 4/25/2022, 9:53 AM
Why is disney star wars so mediocre? its like a vegan burger you didn't order, why is there no meat, who asked for no meat?
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 4/25/2022, 10:08 AM
Well the simplest reason is probably the correct, they planned on five but when they actually started scripting the series they found that it was actually a three season series. Also number of episodes per season is a variable that can be changed.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 4/25/2022, 10:12 AM
Hate to break it to you guys but A LOT of people (most) who are going to be watching this show have never and will never watch Rebels.
SerKurtWagner
SerKurtWagner - 4/25/2022, 10:19 AM
This is so frustrating. Is it really too much to ask for long shows anymore? Seasons are getting shorter and shorter, all the while most shows are struggling to make it past three seasons. It's such a disappointment.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 4/25/2022, 10:26 AM
@SerKurtWagner - Technically big network shows are still going for a long time. And while I kind of concur, for shows like Andor which are part of a bigger franchise I don’t really fret about it. Star Wars shows and Marvel shows just feel like the next step in a much larger story being told. Outside of that yeah shorter and shorter seasons don’t really appeal to me and less and less seasons is even worse.
SerKurtWagner
SerKurtWagner - 4/25/2022, 11:20 AM
@TheUnworthyThor - It's just wild to me how network shows can tell the same stories over and over again for ten plus seasons and people keep tuning in, but an actual story that progresses in new directions only gets a few years.
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