We recently brought you news that Andor, the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story spinoff coming to Disney+ later this year, is expected to begin shooting its second season this November. With Lucasfilm booking 18 months of shooting time at Elstree Studios, there had been speculation they might be considering filming seasons 2 and 3 back-to-back, and that may have now been confirmed.
During a recent interview with TVCultura, Andor's Cinematographer, Adriano Goldman, revealed that the original plan was for the show to run for five seasons. However, something has changed, and it seems this story will instead be told over three. "The series I worked on was supposed to be five seasons long," he explained, "but I think it’s not happening. It will now have three maybe."
That certainly lends some weight to the rumour Lucasfilm is looking to shoot Andor's next two seasons at the same time, but it's looking like that is where the show ends. Bespin Bulletin would later weigh in to say Lucasfilm deliberately chose to set the series five years before Rogue One so they could deliver multiple seasons. However, it appears they may have concluded that five is a couple too many.
There could be any number of reasons for that, of course. A five-season commitment is a lot to expect from a cast, and as fascinating as it will be to follow Cassian Andor's story before he met Jyn Erso in the early days of the Rebel Alliance, five batches of episodes could stretch the story too thin.
Three seasons, on the other hand, sounds like a good amount of time to let the story breathe, explore Cassian as a character, and better flesh out this exciting time in the Star Wars franchise's history.
Stay tuned for more on Andor as we have it.