Manufacturing on the two-season run of Disney/Lucasfilm’s Andor TV sequence will find yourself costing way over the big-screen finale of the franchise’s most up-to-date trilogy. The manufacturing price of Season 2 alone, which a brand new report signifies will likely be effectively over $290.9M, is greater than the manufacturing price of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, which Deadline pegged at $275M. The overall 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 can be compelled to temporarily pause its Season 2 shoot because of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Manufacturing delays, in fact, price cash. The Andor S2 hiatus additionally signifies that your complete S2 manufacturing price shouldn’t be captured within the U.Okay. submitting, which covers solely 2023. For the reason that present resumed shooting in January 2024 and wrapped in February, the precise manufacturing whole for the present will likely be greater. Additionally including to indicate’s bottom-line price will likely be post-production outlays, which aren’t included within the 2023 accounting.
On the opposite aspect of the ledger is a hefty $129M tax rebate for everything of the present.
Creator Tony Gilroy deliberate the sequence 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 told 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 all the time been recognized, which will likely be strolling him into the primary scene of Rogue One.”
