Manufacturing on the two-season run of Disney/Lucasfilm’s Andor TV collection will find yourself costing excess of the big-screen finale of the franchise’s most up-to-date trilogy. The manufacturing value of Season 2 alone, which a brand new report signifies might be effectively over $290.9M, is greater than the manufacturing value of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, which Deadline pegged at $275M. The full manufacturing tally for Andor’s two seasons is put at $645M-plus.
The Andor numbers come courtesy of a narrative from Forbes which cites a yearly U.Okay. monetary report required from productions that make the most of tax rebates there.
The present’s second season was buffeted by delays associated to the twin strikes, with Andor creator/showrunner Tony Gilroy declaring he ceased all writing-related duties on Could 1, 2023 amid the WGA strike. Additional, Deadline reported completely on July 20, 2023 that Andor could be compelled to quickly pause its Season 2 shoot as a result of SAG-AFTRA strike.
Manufacturing delays, after all, value cash. The Andor S2 hiatus additionally implies that the complete S2 manufacturing value just isn’t captured within the U.Okay. submitting, which covers solely 2023. For the reason that present resumed taking pictures in January 2024 and wrapped in February, the precise manufacturing whole for the present might be larger. Additionally including to point out’s bottom-line value might be post-production outlays, which aren’t included within the 2023 accounting.
On the opposite facet of the ledger is a hefty $129M tax rebate for the whole thing of the present.
Creator Tony Gilroy deliberate the collection as a two-season journey with the second season main as much as the occasions in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the place audiences have been first launched to Luna’s Cassian Andor.
Gilroy advised Deadline that the ultimate episode of S2 would happen “three, 4 days earlier than the start of Rogue One, after which our last scene has at all times been identified, which might be strolling him into the primary scene of Rogue One.”
