Andor’s Second Season Will Jump a Year Every 3 Episodes

Star Wars might need solely simply acquired achieved with one TV collection, nevertheless it’s already on to the subsequent—and Andor could be one of the crucial intriguing reveals within the galaxy far, distant to this point, if just for the immense span of time it’s going to cowl.

Chronology in Star Wars reveals (and hell, the franchise on the whole) has at all times been just a little bizarre—the passage of time hasn’t actually mattered a lot in reveals like Clone Wars or Rebels, set throughout a really particular timeframe of occasions, or The Mandalorian, which has a wider, unexplored setting within the post-Return of the Jedi world. Obi-Wan Kenobi, for instance, was set over a handful of days or even weeks at most, which is wild contemplating how a lot truly goes on. But the saga’s subsequent live-action collection, Rogue One prequel Andor, goes to be very completely different: throughout two seasons, it’s protecting 5 years of time for its titular Rebel spy, all the best way as much as the place we meet Cassian within the film. But it’s going to cowl them… inconsistently, to say the least, in line with showrunner Tony Gilroy.

The first season of Andor will cowl roughly a 12 months in Cassian’s life as an operative for the Rebellion, itself about 5 years earlier than the occasions of Rogue One, throughout 12 episodes. Its second, nonetheless, will use the identical quantity of episodes to cowl 4 years—time leaping forward each three episodes.

“The scale of the show is so huge,” Gilroy informed Empire Magazine in a brand new interview, carried out at Star Wars Celebration final month. “Directors work in blocks of three episodes, so we did four blocks [in Season 1] of three episodes each. 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.”

It’s going to be very attention-grabbing to see simply how Andor handles compressing such an unlimited time period like this. Will the tone seriously change one set of episodes to the subsequent? How a lot are we going to finish up truly seeing of those moments, what occurs in between that Cassian will keep it up with him because the collection’ throughline? It’s particularly intriguing contemplating we’re not actually going to get to see that fairly but whereas season 1 units the stage for only a single 12 months of storytelling. Time will, it appears, inform.

Andor’s first season hits Disney+ August 31.

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