When it premiered in late 2022, Andor‘s first season shortly emerged as some of the critically acclaimed Star Wars titles of Lucasfilm’s total Disney-owned period. The present went on to earn eight Emmy nominations, together with one for Excellent Drama Sequence. In line with Andor creator Tony Gilroy, the Rogue One prequel’s extraordinarily constructive reception has helped him persuade Disney and Lucasfilm to comply with his imaginative and prescient for its second and ultimate season.
Talking with Empire, Gilroy advised the outlet, “The crucial appreciation of the present was actually useful, if not important, in serving to Disney choke down the worth of what that is.” Andor season 1 reportedly had a large finances of $250 million, and it appears probably, based mostly on Gilroy’s feedback, that the present’s second season will find yourself costing the identical quantity or extra. Not like another blockbuster reveals of the previous few years, although, most Andor followers would argue that its first season’s finances was used nicely and visual in each certainly one of its episodes.
Lucasfilm is thought for being closely concerned and too risk-averse within the making of its Star Wars TV reveals and flicks, but it surely seems like Andor season 1’s success has made the sequence the uncommon exception to that method. Certainly, Gilroy advised Empire that he “by no means bought any notes on this present.” He added, “By way of artistic notes, no-one has come to me and mentioned, ‘No, they shouldn’t say that.’”
Given how a lot consideration and acclaim Andor‘s storytelling and dialogue acquired, it is smart for Lucasfilm to offer Gilroy this a lot artistic house. The studio does, nonetheless, have a historical past of micromanaging its Star Wars initiatives, whether or not it’s extensively reshooting 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or changing the administrators of 2018’s Solo within the midst of its manufacturing. Fortuitously, when Andor makes its long-awaited return subsequent 12 months, followers of the present will have the ability to take solace in realizing that — on the very least — its second season was made with the liberty that its creator deserves.
Andor season 2 premieres April 22, 2025, on Disney+.
