Often described as “the best Star Wars series” by criticism, Andor He returns this Wednesday, April 23 for a last season, fed by the history of war and revolutions, according to his creator Tony Gilroy.
Disney+ launched in 2022, this protest cost more than $ 645 million for its two seasons, according to the American Forbes magazine.
She draws the beginnings of the rebellion against the galactic empire, during the five years that lead to the film Snape one (2016), through the trip of one of its protagonists, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna).
In the feature film, where a rebel command embarks on a suicide mission to steal the plans of the black star, a weapon of mass destruction, “we have characters that sacrifice everything for a cause,” reminds the AFP actor Diego Luna. The derived series shows “how someone gets there,” summarizes.
“More intense, more complex”
Far from focusing on his homonymous hero, Andor Explore the motivations and dark sides of the two camps, after the architect of the emerging rebellion camping by Stellan Skarsgard as the henchmen of the fascinating empire.
Initially planned for five seasons, the series stressed during the filming of the former, according to its creator Tony Gilroy, author of the adaptation of espionage novels Jason Bourne In the cinema, like the script of Snape one.
By signing the project, “I had no idea of the necessary work volume (…) was physically unfeasible,” said the American showrunner to the AFP during a visit to Paris.
The result, the second lot of 12 episodes, transmitted at a rate of three per week, covers a period of four years until Snape one. And it is “much more intense, more complex” than the first, says Diego Luna.
Disney, which has multiplied, with more or less success, movies and series Star Wars From the acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, place large in the saga to attract the subscribers to their platform.
The birth of a revolution
Its greatest intergalactic success on the small screen, The MandalorianYou will be entitled to a decline in cinemas in May 2026. But for many criticisms, AndorDarker, more political and more realistic, it stands out.
To portray the birth of a revolution and its impact on “common people,” said Tony Gilroy, “Teleanding”, was inspired by history books.
“I grew up with a great library and as soon as a subject interested me, I learned,” said this son of a renowned screenwriter and playwright.
“I have read history and war books for 40 years, about rebellions and revolutions”, Russian, French, English, Haitian, Romanian or even Mexican.
French touch
The second season focuses more particularly on the subject of propaganda, through the tragic destination of the people of a planet called Ghorman, for which it was necessary to “imagine a complete civilization”, with its economy, its language, its culture, its wardrobe and its aesthetics.
Cocorico: Several French actors, including Thierry Godard (Gear, A French people), they were asked to form this new “community” in an invented language.
“He was a great admirer ofA French people“, The cult series of France 3 on the life of an imaginary sub -prefecture of swearing under German occupation, justified Tony Gilroy.” I had certain actors in mind. We wonder how to embody this culture of Ghorman, and at one point I said ‘What if we only had French actors?’ “
In more general terms, the series resonates strongly with the disorders of today’s world, which Tony Gilroy could not “anticipate writing.
“The sad truth is that history (…) is repeated again and again,” he argues. “Narcissively, we often have the impression of living unique times.” However, “changes in technology, vocabulary changes, but the dynamics of oppression and resistance” is “timeless”.
Source: BFM TV
