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Sure, but the Andor series is like 20 hours long, vs a two hour movie
Yeah article is dogshit, it’s headline is about the cost but the rest of it they talk about the ratings.
Yeah they spent 705 million on 20 hours of TV. They also spent 639 million on The Force Awakens alone.
Wow those numbers are way closer than I was expecting. I mean just with the marketing of two separate seasons of TV I expected there be a way bigger difference than 65-ish million dollars.
Therical releases provide a means to realistically recoup those costs.
The streaming model is built upon content hours, and a show this expensive is just bad business and terribly unsustainable, even if it was a great show.
I do think it’s reasonable to critique the business decisions that led to giving a two-season run show a nearly three-quarters of a billion-dollar budget.
If this happened in a vacuum, that would be one thing. But it speaks to a larger problem of Disney’s suspiciously high budgets for their original content.
Andor may have been the only actually good Star Wars anything. It is so weird that they made a show with good writing and no pandering only to have douchebags complain that the series was more expensive that their crappy 2.5 hour movies.
The first season of The Mandalorian was art. Real minimalism in the cinematography that felt like a nod to Sergio Leone, focus and real intent to every scene, sparse dialogue.
It became just another Star Wars show after that, unfortunately, but it had a really solid start.
And it showed, some of the best content in the SW universe, along with Clone Wars/Bad Batch which I thought would be rubbish & ended up thoroughly enjoying more than nearly any of the recent films!
Good.
For once it makes sense. Andor is the only good thing to come out of this license since Return of the Jedi… (Not counting video games)
I maye have a soft spot for The Last Jedi, but a shit sandwich with a thin layer of caviar in the middle is still a shit sandwich.
(Also maybe Rogue One, I haven’t seen it yet)
Rogue One is gritty like Andor. We didn’t need more of the hero’s from the Skywalker storyline, we just needed new characters in the same universe.
I was wondering how the episodes were so long and well done. I kept thinking, “why can’t all new Star Wars be this good” and I’m guessing it’s the cost. Andor and Rogue One are easily my favorite Star Wars experiences.
You can make good quality shows on a shoestring budget if you really want to. Even something fantasy/science fiction themed. It’s more about intent and ability than it is budget. Plenty of high-budget productions still look like shit.
No matter how good Andor might be, Disney is a fascist magat organization beyond redemption.
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I’d hope so, the difference in hours of content is…a lot.
It was an amazing show with high production quality. The sets alone were incredible. I would have been surprised had it not cost a fortune.
What are the chances this is Hollywood accounting shenanigans
