Actors devoting a considerable part of their career, 5 seasons of Star Wars: Andor for Diego Luna to be precise, it can be a huge gamble. The stakes are high because one cannot predict whether a show will be successful or not. Diego Luna is one of many actors who decided not to make this commitment for the next Star Wars: Andor.
The actor is currently on track to star in two seasons for the Star Wars: Rogue One prequel named Star Wars: Andor. The Y tu mamá también star will play the lead role of Rebel Alliance pilot and officer Cassian Andor. But he didn’t want to devote five long seasons to it.
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Diego Luna’s non-direct to five seasons of Star Wars: Andor
Star Wars: Andor is a new television series from Lucasfilm that will revolve around five years in the life of rogue-turned-intelligence officer and pilot Cassian Andor. It will follow the timeline in star wars history when the Rebel Alliance was building its resistance to the Galactic Empire.
It’s exciting to be able to get a glimpse of Cassian’s life before the events of A thugand the TV series was originally set to run for five seasons which captures those five years of Cassian’s life before he and his Rogue One team plan to steal the Empire’s galactic superweapon called the Death Star .
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However, Diego Luna was reluctant to do five seasons of Andor. It’s a story that was recently revealed by Denise Gough, Luna’s co-star in the upcoming series.
During an interview for On the red carpet, the actress, who plays high-ranking imperial officer Dedra Meero in Andorsaid-
“We kind of signed up for five years. We thought they were going to be five seasons of that and then luckily Diego [Luna] was like, ‘I’m going to die if I do five seasons.’ So they condensed it into this amazing – I don’t know how he did it, but he condensed… Tony Gilroy managed to do one more season and you’re going to have told the whole story.
Five seasons for a prequel TV series is huge. That’s absolutely fine Andor will only last two seasons, which is much better because showrunner Tony Gilroy will still show us those five years of Cassian’s life.
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Tony Gilroy is relieved to have 12 episodes per season for Star Wars: Andor
Breaking five seasons originally planned for a TV series into two seasons doesn’t seem easy at all, and it’s especially hard to do with a franchise like star wars where the showrunners have tons of knowledge to work with that they might want to include in the project.
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Tony Gilroy had the advantage of getting 12 episodes for both seasons of Andor, yet. During his interview for Star Wars: Andor in On the red carpetthe director of Michael Clayton talked about the length of each season-
“There’s a new dial on everyone’s console, which is, ‘How long does my story have to be? Is it three episodes? Is it seven o’clock? Is it noon? It’s… what is it? You have to choose the right number.
Gilroy feels liberated to have these extra episodes to cover the ground-
“It’s really fantastic to be able to stretch out to just have a Dickensian amount of characters interacting and telling a huge story. You don’t want to waste time, you want to keep… your compression skills but… it’s very liberating.
The 66-year-old director previously worked on the already released sequel to Andor with RogueOne, which he wrote the screenplay alongside Chris Weitz. That should be reason enough to be excited about the upcoming TV series since he’s already qualified and familiar with the Star Wars franchise.
Star Wars: Andor is scheduled for September 21 this year on Disney+.
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