Andor Filming Locations and Techniques Unique for a Star Wars Show

The foremost factor that stopped George Lucas from making Star Wars TV reveals many years in the past was cash. He couldn’t work out easy methods to make a present that regarded like his motion pictures, however for a fraction of the price, which on the time was the one approach it could work for TV. And whereas the primary three live-action Star Wars reveals did determine that drawback out, the fourth is getting away from it totally.

That fourth present is Andor, created by Rogue One co-writer Tony Gilroy, and it debuts on Disney+ September 21. It follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) from the start of the trail that leads him to turn into the Rebel chief we meet in Rogue One. But in contrast to Andor’s Star Wars TV counterparts, the present was shot on sensible units and areas, not utilizing Industrial Light & Magic’s groundbreaking StageCraft. “We’re old-school,” Gilroy advised Empire Magazine. 

StageCraft is a brand new expertise that was first used on The Mandalorian, and has since been used on The Book of Boba Fett in addition to Obi-Wan Kenobi. It includes putting a big circle of displays on a soundstage with the power to show any location in actual time. No longer do you must journey to distant mountaintops to movie on distant mountaintops; they could be recreated in a studio in Los Angeles on these unimaginable displays. It’s Lucas’ money-saving dream come true.

But not Andor. From the primary few photographs of the model new trailer you’ll be able to see that Andor truly did shoot on distant mountaintops. “In Pitlochry, Scotland, we had to walk for hours up a mountain to set up one shot,” Luna stated. “Huge effort. Really dangerous to get there. All you can see around you is sky, trees, rivers, lakes. Amazing! Like being on another planet.”

Plus, when Andor wasn’t filming on location, it was filming at Pinewood Studios within the United Kingdom, utilizing totally realized units, similar to a significant movie manufacturing. “We didn’t use StageCraft at all,” Gilroy stated. The goal, in fact, is to make Andor not simply look completely different from the entire different Star Wars reveals earlier than it, however to make it slot in seamlessly with the look of Andor’s earlier look in Rogue One, which was additionally filmed on location and on soundstages.

Will the doubtless costly determination repay? We’ll discover out when Andor debuts with three episodes on September 21.

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