3 episodes in an really enjoying it so far.

Finally watched this series..

Damn good. One of the best pieces of Star Wars there is.

On program!

I enjoyed Andor as much as I enjoyed the original trilogy. What a fantastic surprise!!

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
Finally watched this series..

Damn good. One of the best pieces of Star Wars there is.

On program!

Refreshing, ain't it?

I’ll give it a try I guess.

The budget was $250 million for its 12 episode run.

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"You can't do this show inexpensively," according to Tony Gilroy.

The first season of Andor reportedly had a budget of $250 million, making it more expensive than The Mandalorian.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Andor had an estimated budget of $250 million for its 12-episode first season. While it is a steep cost, especially in comparison to others, showrunner Tony Gilroy insisted that it would have been impossible to make without that kind of budget.

"We got lucky making this during the gold rush a few years ago. A lot of people now have cold feet, and you can't do this show inexpensively," he said. "I'm just so relieved at the reaction because we were making this huge, obscure thing and we knew it was crazy. Like, 'Is this too much? Have we gone too far?' There were no focus groups or test audiences. Now it will be good if we can stick the landing and go out strong."

Andor's $250 million budget puts it ahead of The Mandalorian's first season, which cost around $120 million, with a budget of $15 million per episode. It also overtakes the Halo TV series' $10 million per episode price tag and The Last of Us TV adaptation's budget of $10 million per episode, though it isn't quite as expensive as the reported $465 production budget of Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings series.

Andor Season 2 is currently filming in London and had an August 2024 premiere window, though it's unclear how the writer's strike may affect it. Disney is remaining relatively tight-lipped about it, though we do know that its final episodes will cover the three days before Rogue One.

Season 2 trailer, debut is April 22

I think its safe to say, the marketing department has free-reign (or is separate from the director) when it comes to how to promote the show, thus we're getting contemporary music, Steve Earle's The Revolution Stats Now. Clearly this part of Disney continues to be stuck on 2017 rhetoric, language and emotion. Romanticizing revolutions is reserved for those who never have to actually do the fighting and dying. The show is about the lead-up to societal upheaval and war as a insurgency forms to overthrow the ever consolidating power of the Galactic Empire...and Disney thought this song would be appropriate.

Past shows have used music in the trailers that are unrelated to what the show/film uses. I believe the first Gladiator 2 trailer was using a hip-hop sound track for a movie set in 2nd century Rome Thankfully, despite how mediocre the movie was, that genre of music was not used in the movie itself.

If you've not watched the first season of Andor, I'd suggesting carving some time to view it. If anything, it's Star Wars for adults..no special powers or, devices. Story and dialogue drive this story, not gratuitous action and stretches in story-flow. This trailer seems to show quite a bit of action, which if it's anything close to the first season, they edited-in every piece of action to create this trailer. I'm not saying this is some super drama but, again it was the story and the dialogue that drives it...your 12-year old will hate this and scream that it's dumbest of all Star Wars.

I don't know what to expect from this continuation. s1 was an under-reported success, given that the other Star Wars Stories have been giant flops. Allegedly creator and producer Tony Gilroy was given full control...with Kathleen Kennedy around, nobody ever has full control or, free of outside influence.

Andor was the "Slow Horses" of the Star Wars franchise. This looks like the story picks up steam, which will be fine. But I loved the Revolution as imagined by George Smiley.