• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m still disappointed we only got two seasons. Season one was a masterpiece. Season two was good, but rushed. Reminded me of season two of Rome where they had to pack multiple seasons of stories into one last season because the money ran out.

    I’m also amazed Disney released three eps at a time instead of once a week. It’s like they don’t want you to stay subscribed for more than a month per year.

    I truly hope that the art direction and costume teams for “Andor” win all the awards this year. You really feel like you are watching another universe that existed somewhere in another galaxy far far away.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      2 months ago

      I honestly wonder if they sped up season 2 not because they thought it’d get cancelled or go stale but because since it was successful Disney wanted more control over it. It’s already come out Tony Gilroy was butting more heads with execs for season 2. He seems like he would want to go out his way.

      With that being said, maybe not 5, but I think 3 would have been perfect

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        2 months ago

        Gilroy said the original plan was for 5 seasons. Once they sat down to start working on season 2, though, they looked at the calendar. They did the math on when season 2 would come out, then on how long it would take to make all 5 seasons. They decided that none of them wanted to be working on the same project for a decade+, so they decided to cut it down to 2 seasons.

        Where did you hear about him butting heads with execs? From all the interviews I’ve seen, it seems like the exact opposite was the case. It sounds like Kathleen Kennedy, specifically, ran interference for Gilroy to let him do pretty much whatever he wanted.

        Andor s1 and s2 got greenlit and budgeted right about the time Disney+ first came out. At that point, Disney was trying to produce as much stuff as they could to be Disney+ exclusive to fill their catalog. That’s how Andor got such a large budget and how Gilroy got such a free hand to do whatever he wanted. I’ve never read anything about execs trying to reign him in with regards to creative control. The only limitation I’ve heard was a budget one about wanting to do an episode of K-2SO as a horror monster rampaging through an Imperial ship.