The Volume is fine for barren, desolate worlds like Tatooine, but not for the crumbling buildings and neon-drenched alleyways of this series.īut even as Andor captures the grimy side of Star Wars, it also succeeds in blazing its own stylistic trail. That lived-in quality is essential when you’re telling the story of Cassian Andor and other freedom fighters living on the fringes of the Empire. It just didn't lend itself to that kind of production and you can't choose between them." "Either you're a Volume show or not a Volume show. "There's no way to do both," showrunner Tony Gilroy told reporters at the TCAs. The Volume simply wasn’t up to that task. The crew even built a set the size of several city blocks, all to create that grimy, lived-in quality we associate with Star Wars.
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More than any other Star Wars series to date, Andor actually looks like a Star Wars movie. Watching Andor, one can’t help but be struck by just how different - and frankly, how much more expensive - the series looks compared to its predecessors. Sometimes there’s just no substitute for having actors occupying real, physical spaces with fully built sets. But, particularly in The Book of Boba Fett, the limitations of The Volume have become apparent. The Mandalorian and its fellow Disney+ shows have managed to recreate that Star Wars aesthetic on the small screen largely through the help of the Volume, a digital set which projects detailed backgrounds and lighting against a video wall. As we learned with the abandoned Star Wars: Underworld series, that’s a feat even George Lucas couldn’t pull off. The Mandalorian broke major ground in 2019 as the first live-action Star Wars series. His nemesis, Syril Karn, isn’t a high-ranking Imperial officer, but simply a low-level security officer bent on making a name for himself. There’s just Cassian Andor, a scrappy grifter struggling to stay one step ahead of his problems. There are no legions of Stormtroopers or flamboyant Sith Inquisitors hunting down fugitive Jedi. The scope of the series is actually pretty small by Star Wars standards. That’s a quality Andor immediately taps into in its three-episode premiere.
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