Anden sæson af Andor har en ganske særlige fireårig struktur

Det føltes som en ret mærkelig beslutning fra Disney at opgive sin oprindeligt planlagte plan om at producere fem sæsoner af Andor for i stedet at servere et monster af en anden sæson, der dækker de fire år mellem den første sæson og begivenhederne i Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Men det var den vej, der blev valgt af mange forskellige årsager.

Showrunner Tony Gilroy har forklaret mere i et nyt interview med SFX magazine (tak, GamesRadar+), hvor han bemærkede, at denne mere strømlinede tilgang - hvor hver tre afsnit strækker sig over et år af Cassian Andors liv - blev "født ud af desperation".

"We were halfway through shooting season 1, coming through Covid, and the monumental size of the show, the effort, and everything else was just dawning on us. We realized that I didn't have enough calories to do it, and Diego's face couldn't take the timing, because it just takes too long to make it. We were saved by Disney saying, 'Okay, if you guys can figure out a way to do it, we're into it.'"

"It's a fascinating experiment and I don't know if anyone's ever done it before. We're going to jump a year between each block, and we're going to use that negative space in a really interesting way, coming back for three days at a time, so it's like a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. The challenge is, how do you come back [to start each chapter]? We wanted to have it be as elegant and seamless as possible, and just hit the ground running. There was a lot of experimentation to make sure that would work."

Andor vender tilbage til Disney+ fra den 23. april og vil tilbyde hvert af sine tre episodiske år om ugen indtil den store finale i midten af maj. Du kan se den seneste trailer til serien herunder