History Trivia / Andor

** There were originally plans for the show to run for five seasons. After realising how long it took to film the first season, the decision was made to condense the remaining storylines into the second season and end the show there, with Cassian literally getting on the transport to the Rings of Kafrene, where his first scene in ''Rogue One'' takes place.

** When the earliest incarnation of the series was first announced back in 2018, it was pitched as a sort of BuddyCopShow in the vein of ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' following the adventures of Cassian and K-2SO, with Jared Bush developing the concept and Stephen Schiff as showrunner. Sometime in early 2019, Creator/TonyGilroy was asked for his input, leading to him half-jokingly writing what he called a "manifesto" about what he wanted the series to be that contained many radical ideas by ''Star Wars'' standards, and handing it to Lucasfilm. Unexpectedly, they wound up really liking his ideas, which led to him replacing Schiff as showrunner to create the series as we know it.

** James [=McArdle=], who portrays Timm Karlo, previously appeared in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' as Niv Lek, one of the X-Wing pilots attacking Starkiller Base.

* {{Blooper}}: In "Nobody's Listening!", [[https://redd.it/ylbpii there's a Pelican-brand equipment case tucked inside the cart of machine parts that Cassian pushes through a door, secured to the cart with zip ties]]. It's dark and shadowed in the spot where the case is, and the case is also dark-colored, making it very hard to see unless you know what you're looking for.

** There were originally plans for the show to run for five seasons. After realising how long it took to film the first season, the decision was made to condense the remaining storylines into the second season and end the show there.

** Creator/StellanSkarsgard casually revealed in a Swedish-language interview that his character and Creator/ForestWhitaker's Saw Gerrera share a great scene together, accidentally spoiling Saw's appearance in this series prior to the official announcement of Whitaker's involvement.

** The largest leaks of all were for the Niamos scenes, which were shot at a snack bar at Cleveleys Beach in Blackpool, UK in late April 2021, located close to several busy streets. Passerby took numerous candid videos and telephoto stills of Cassian's confrontation with the Shoretrooper and of actors wearing the same mocap rig as Creator/AlanTudyk's K-2SO, confirming the presence of KX droids, and posted them on Twitter throughout the duration of the shoot. In one candid still, Creator/DiegoLuna even makes eye contact with the photographer and waves at them.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Maarva's RousingSpeech, as originally filmed, ended with the line "'''[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]]''' the Empire!", which would have been the first time that a ''Star Wars'' product used the word. [[https://www.empireonline.com/tv/features/andor-denise-gough-interview-building-star-wars-villain-dedra-meero/ However]], the line was dubbed over with "[[{{Bowdlerise}} Fight]]" instead.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Maarva's RousingSpeech, as originally filmed, ended with the line "'''[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]]''' the Empire!", which would have been the first time that a ''Star Wars'' product used the word. [[https://www.empireonline.com/tv/features/andor-denise-gough-interview-building-star-wars-villain-dedra-meero/ However]], the line was dubbed over with "[[{{Bowdlerize}} Fight]]" instead.

* MissingTrailerScene: The sizzle reel for the series, released in December 2020 likely fairly soon after filming began, shows several pieces of concept art at the end, and although all of them are seen in Season 1 at least in their most basic spirit, two evidently had the context surrounding them radically altered. One shows Cassian piloting a small starfighter with a broken windshield, implying that he was using the fighter for an on-planet escape or attack, that may have been reworked into the escape from the planet Aldhani through the Eye, which left atmo (not survivable with a broken windshield) and took place on a much larger craft. Another shows a slightly bloodied Cassian wielding a blaster and taking cover from Stormtroopers, implying that he was engaged in a firefight with them, which seems to have been reworked into the scene in "Announcement" where he hides from a Stormtrooper patrol on Ferrix and explicitly does not fight them. There's also brief footage of Creator/DiegoLuna (or his stuntman; everyone's wearing masks) and another performer rehearsing a scuffle as part of a potentially very early version of the warehouse shootout in "Reckoning". However, the final version is purely a shootout and nobody gets close enough to each other for a physical scuffle.

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** According to [[https://www.gamesradar.com/andor-kathryn-hunter-kyle-soller-exclusive/ Kyle Soller]], who portrays Syril Karn, he worked with co-star Kathryn Hunter (who portrays the mother of his character) to come up with a backstory for their characters and their dysfunctional relationship, which they envisioned as involving an acrimonious breakup between Syril's parents that led to his mother taking out her dissatisfaction on him.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The Aldhani Eye festival in "The Eye" was supposed to feature hundreds of extras playing Aldhani natives, but COVID restrictions put the kibosh on that and forced the number of extras to be drastically cut down. The showrunners worked around this by having some Imperial higher-ups discuss the "comfort stations" they set up along the pilgrimage route that caused the party to dwindle down to the few dozen we see in the final version. As Creator/TonyGilroy put it, it made their story more interesting in a weird way, because it turned the Aldhani culture into one on its last legs, getting strangled by the Empire.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: In contrast to previous live-action ''Star Wars'' shows - ''Series/TheMandalorian'', ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' and ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'', along with the animated ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' - Tony Gilroy confirmed that ''Andor'' would be much less reliant on EasterEggs as a driving force of the plot, as all four aforementioned series faced some criticisms for its cameo-heavy episodes. While there are certainly [[ContinuityNod nods to past and future events]] as well as several blink-and-you-miss-it references, none of them are done in such a way that they necessitate viewing of another show or movie.

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** In contrast to previous live-action ''Star Wars'' shows - ''Series/TheMandalorian'', ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' and ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'', along with the animated ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' - Tony Gilroy confirmed that ''Andor'' would be much less reliant on EasterEggs as a driving force of the plot, as all four aforementioned series faced some criticisms for its cameo-heavy episodes. While there are certainly [[ContinuityNod nods to past and future events]] as well as several blink-and-you-miss-it references, none of them are done in such a way that they necessitate viewing of another show or movie.
** The Volume digital backdrops are a revolutionary filmmaking technology, allowing for near photoreal environments using a digital screen as an evolution of ChromaKey and used extensively for previous Star Wars shows. But the technology still has its limitations [[note]]smoke and dust effects are less convincing, there is still only so much physical space on set for crowd scenes (characters sometimes appear to be wandering oddly carefully around a 30 foot circle even in environments that should be very open, like their actors are trying to avoid hitting a screen), and every shot has to be calculated and programmed ahead of time[[/note]] and that created an unfortunate uniformity of the look and design of those shows. ''Andor'' films chiefly on physical sets and real locations with sometimes hundreds of extras, minimally using Volume-like technology in support of real sets like the backdrop outside windows, making for a very sharp-looking show that rivals the films.

** A large number of people on screen and behind the scenes on Andor also worked on ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', including actors such as Creator/StellanSkarsgard, Alex Ferns, Robert Emms, Andrew Rawlins, as well as production staff such as Casting Director Nina Gold and Production Designer Luke Hull.

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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/DiegoLuna Tweeted that "One Way Out" is his favorite episode of the first season.
* FakeBrit: The Irish Creator/DeniseGough portrays Dedra Meero with a Received Pronounciation accent, [[AliensOfLondon similar to most other high-ranking Imperials]].

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* ProductionPosse: One of the second season's directors, Alonso Ruizpalacios, previously directed Diego Luna on two episodes of ''Series/{{Narcos}}: Mexico''.

** The Volume digital backdrops are a revolutionary filmmaking technology, allowing for near photoreal environments using a digital screen as an evolution of ChromaKey and used extensively for previous Star Wars shows. But the technology still has its limitations [[note]]smoke and dust effects are less convincing, there is still only so much physical space on set for crowd scenes (characters sometimes appear to be wandering around a 30 foot circle even in an open desert, like their actors are trying to avoid the screen), and every shot has to be calculated and programmed ahead of time[[/note]] and that created an unfortunate uniformity of the look and design of those shows. ''Andor'' films chiefly on physical sets and real locations with sometimes hundreds of extras, minimally using Volume-like technology in support of real sets like the backdrop outside windows, making for a very sharp-looking show that rivals the films.

** The Volume digital backdrops are a revolutionary filmmaking technology, allowing for near photoreal environments using a digital screen as an evolution of ChromaKey and used extensively for previous Star Wars shows. But the technology still has its limitations [[note]]smoke and dust effects are less convincing, there is still only so much physical space on set for crowd scenes (and some viewers have pointed out how in Volume-heavy shows, characters tend to move carefully and a bit slowly, like their actors are afraid of running into a screen), and every shot has to be calculated and programmed ahead of time[[/note]] and that created an unfortunate uniformity of the look and design of those shows. ''Andor'' films chiefly on physical sets and real locations with sometimes hundreds of extras, minimally using Volume-like technology in support of real sets like the backdrop outside windows, making for a very sharp-looking show that rivals the films.

** The Volume digital backdrops are a revolutionary filmmaking technology, allowing for near photoreal environments using a digital screen as an evolution of ChromaKey and used extensively for previous Star Wars shows. But the technology still has its limitations [[note]]smoke and dust effects are less convincing, there is still only so much physical space on set for crowd scenes (and some viewers have pointed out how in Volume-heavy shows, characters tend to move carefully and a bit slowly, like their actors are afraid of running into a screen), and every shot has to be calculated and programmed ahead of time[[/note]] and that created an unfortunate uniformity of the look and design of those shows. ''Andor'' films chiefly on physical sets and real locations and only minimally uses Volume-like technology in the form of smaller, individual screens for views outside windows, making for a very sharp-looking show that rivals the films.

** The Volume digital backdrops are a revolutionary filmmaking technology, allowing for near photoreal environments using a digital screen as an evolution of ChromaKey and used extensively for previous Star Wars shows. But the technology still has its limitations [[note]]Smoke and dust effects are less convincing, there is still only so much space on set for crowd scenes and every shot has to be calculated and programmed ahead of time[[/note]] and that created an unfortunate uniformity of the look and design of those shows. ''Andor'' uses Volume sparingly with a greater reliance on physical sets and real locations, making for a very sharp looking show that rivals the films.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: In contrast to previous live-action ''Star Wars'' shows - ''Series/TheMandalorian'', ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' and ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'', along with the animated ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' - Tony Gilroy confirmed that ''Andor'' would be much less reliant on EasterEggs as a driving force of the plot, as all four aforementioned series faced some criticisms for its cameo-heavy episodes. While there are certainly [[ContinuityNod nods to past and future events]] as well as several blink-and-you-miss-it references, none of them are done in such a way that they necessitate viewing of another show or movie.

* RoleReprise

* WordOfSaintPaul