‘Andor’ Showrunner Confirms It Cost $650 Million, So Good Luck Doing That Again
The post ‘Andor’ Showrunner Confirms It Cost $650 Million, So Good Luck Doing That Again appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Andor Disney Andor has some of the best production value of any Star Wars project we’ve seen, from its real-life sets to its splicing with VFX, and there’s a reason for that. It cost a stunning amount of money. Back in December, Forbes’ Caroline Reid reported that Andor cost $645 million, based on Disney filings she’d found that indicated that price. It was debated around the industry, but while it certainly seemed provable, now, for the first time, the showrunner of Andor himself is talking about that figure. And it is in fact that figure after all. Tony Gilroy was speaking on a panel during the ATX Television Festival and had this to say about how this all came together, including Disney just throwing money at the project: “I mean, [for] Disney this is $650 million,” Gilory said. “For 24 episodes, I never took a note. We said ‘F*** the Empire’ in the first season, and they said, ‘Can you please not do that?’ … In Season 2, they said, ‘Streaming is dead, we don’t have the money we had before,’ so we fought hard about money, but they never cleaned anything up. That [freedom] comes with responsibilities.” Gilroy has spoken about just how much support Disney gave to the series, which was concocted as long as a decade ago before just finishing its run. That not only includes the money (and that is an astonishing budget), but also the ability to do things like have a brother and murders in the first ten minutes, or the ability to say things like “genocide” and “rape” in a Star Wars series. As much as the fanbase likes to point fingers at her for what’s wrong with Disney, Gilroy has said that Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy was the show’s biggest champion and…
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Andor Disney Andor has some of the best production value of any Star Wars project we’ve seen, from its real-life sets to its splicing with VFX, and there’s a reason for that. It cost a stunning amount of money. Back in December, Forbes’ Caroline Reid reported that Andor cost $645 million, based on Disney filings she’d found that indicated that price. It was debated around the industry, but while it certainly seemed provable, now, for the first time, the showrunner of Andor himself is talking about that figure. And it is in fact that figure after all. Tony Gilroy was speaking on a panel during the ATX Television Festival and had this to say about how this all came together, including Disney just throwing money at the project: “I mean, [for] Disney this is $650 million,” Gilory said. “For 24 episodes, I never took a note. We said ‘F*** the Empire’ in the first season, and they said, ‘Can you please not do that?’ … In Season 2, they said, ‘Streaming is dead, we don’t have the money we had before,’ so we fought hard about money, but they never cleaned anything up. That [freedom] comes with responsibilities.” Gilroy has spoken about just how much support Disney gave to the series, which was concocted as long as a decade ago before just finishing its run. That not only includes the money (and that is an astonishing budget), but also the ability to do things like have a brother and murders in the first ten minutes, or the ability to say things like “genocide” and “rape” in a Star Wars series. As much as the fanbase likes to point fingers at her for what’s wrong with Disney, Gilroy has said that Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy was the show’s biggest champion and…
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