While the first season is finished, and awards season is looking set to celebrate the success and the craft on display, the second season is still a couple of years away and speaking with Collider, Diego Luna explains why each year of the 5 year run in to Rogue One can’t be done in the same way.
“It’s not possible, but you know what? It’s not because of us. It’s because of Rogue One. I mean, I also have to look close enough to Rogue One. Can you imagine me in 10 years pretending to be the [character] I was 20 years ago? Just impossible. I mean, sadly there’s no machines or CGI that can do it.”
“We didn’t want this to end up being an animated series. I am who I am, and Tony Gilroy has to be the writer of this. We cannot be doing this for 10 years. Basically, the first season took four years. The second will take a little less, but he has to write 12 episodes. Then we have to go [into] pre-production. That normally takes six to eight months to build these places and to start with the whole process of designing, casting. Then the execution is another seven, eight months, and then post-production starts. That’s not easy either. So it’s a long journey. Each season takes three, four years of my life and of Tony Gilroy’s life.”
