In the latest issue of Empire magazine, arriving 7th July in shops but with subscribers now, showrunner Tony Gilroy gave some detail regarding the framework of the two-season series Star Wars: Andor, explaining how season 1 differs greatly in design from the second, which starts filming later this year.
“The scale of the show is so huge. Directors work in blocks of three episodes, so we did four blocks [in Season 1] of three episodes each.” That shooting schedule organically led to Season 2’s different structure. “We looked and said, ‘Wow, it’d be really interesting if we come back, and we use each block to represent a year. We’ll move a year closer with each block’. From a narrative point of view, it’s really exciting to be able to work on something where you do a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and then jump a year.”
We’ll be talking about this and much more on next weeks episode of Making Tracks, recorded in the Star Wars Zone at London Film and Comic Con.
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