‘Andor’: Tony Gilroy, creator of the series, explains the upcoming time jump and its narrative structure

‘Andor’ just wrapped its first season on Disney+ to the applause of a specialized press full of flattery. Many fans too, although not as numerous as in the case of other ‘Star Wars’ series, have shown an enthusiasm that will soon be rewarded with season 2. This new batch of episodes has already started its production in London, structuring its story arc in a very specific way..

As happened with season 1, distributed in creative blocks even if without temporary jumps, the next chapters of this galactic series will also be collected in lots designed to have their beginning and their end framed within the season. Tony Gilroy himself, creator of the series, explains it, assuring that the action will rush with enough pace to join this prequel to the events we saw in ‘Rogue One’. “Indeed [los episodios]They are super condensed. It’s like three days, four days, two weeks, four days. They offer a fairly short time framethat’s great”explains Gilroy in his statements to Deadline. “That’s what’s exciting. You can be away for a year, go back to counting Friday, Saturday and Sunday and then skip a year. It won’t be like Season 2 takes place in another year. [Los próximos episodios] they are very focused, which is fun. And then you have to keep in mind everything that you didn’t say, what happened while we weren’t looking.”.

Said director also recently reiterated that his TV drama will connect directly with the beginning of “Rogue One” through episodes that are intended to maintain the approach that has won over the critics. “It will be the same tone”advances in statements to Film. “I hope it has the same quality, same attention to detail and all the other ingredients that our fans have become accustomed to. But there are two things that are very different. One is that this is a series about Cassian becoming a revolutionary His commitment to the cause won’t be so questioned in the next few episodes and the second difference is this We will cover four years. Every time we do three episodes in the second half, we skip a year.. And when we return to the series for its second season, it will be a year later. We’ll do three episodes and skip a year. Then we’ll do three episodes and another year jump, and the last batch will be the one that will lead us to “Rogue One”. We have some pretty interesting storytelling opportunities. I’d like to know if anyone else has done it before… We can’t think of any show that has done it.”.

perfect the system

‘Andor’ has already tried to structure its episodes in blocks in its first season, but the system will be outlined in a much more concrete way in the next installments. Therefore, Season 2 will have homogeneous packs of episodes that will tell specific events after each time jump. On the contrary, the first season, with its trial / error, has not finished polishing the question, ending up presenting his adventure in the following creative blocks of episodes directed and written by the same director duo:

– Toby Haynes directs and Tony Gilroy writes the script for the first three episodes: ‘Kassa’, ‘I think it was me’ and ‘Revenge’.

– Susanna White directs and Dan Gilroy writes episodes 4, 5 and 6: ‘Aldhani’, ‘The Ax Forgets’ and ‘The Eye’.

– Here’s the ‘exception’. Episode 7 – ‘Declaration’ is on the loose, with Benjamin Caron directing and Stephen Schiff writing screenplay.

– Toby Haynes repeats behind the scenes, based on Beau Willimon’s scripts for the prison triad, 8, 9 and 10: ‘Narkina 5’, ‘They won’t listen to us!’ and “A Way Out”.

– And finally, Tony Gilroy returns to the script under the direction of Caron, who also repeats, for the last two chapters, 11 and 12: ‘Daughter of Ferrix’ and ‘Rix Street’.

This way of presenting the narrative is notable because each block has its own history and internal structure which is subsequently framed in the season. The best example to understand this bet is the cut-up on what happened in Narkina 5, three ideal episodes to see Gilroy’s plan because they not only have a clear beginning, middle and end, but are also very different aesthetically.