Secrets from the filming of Andor. Season 2: Week 2 Fun Facts
Find out what The Force Awakens and Andor have in common when it comes to visiting distant planets, plus other fascinating behind-the-scenes facts about the making of Star Wars, now streaming on Disney+.
Creating Gorman's expansive and historically rich world in the second season of Andor required ambitious set construction spanning over 500 feet for exterior elements alone.
In fact, the new planet was created on the same Pinewood Studios location where the village of Jakku, which began the sequel trilogy, and the city of Jedha from the film “Rogue One” were once created. A Star Wars Storyand other impressive builds from the modern era ofStar Warsstorytelling.
Keep reading for even more fun facts and tidbits about the making of this week's episode of Andor.
Episodes 204-206
1. (Above) Greenham Comon, filming location of the base Saw Gerrera in the second season of the seriesAndor was once an airfield and base for the Royal Air Force.
2. (Above) The pieces of roasted meat that the So rebels spit are actually edible, having been placed on the spit by a food stylist.
3.(Above) The camouflage pattern on Saw Gerrera's Guerilla X-Wing fighters has been updated for the second season ofAndor, compared to how they looked inRogue One.
4. (Above) Filming of the HMB Operations Headquarters took place at the OKX Thought Leadership Center at the McLaren Group Technology Center in Woking, England, the same complex where the Coruscant transport hub was filmed for the first season ofAndor. .
5. ILM's StageCraft pop-up screens were used again for the second season ofAndor, specifically outside the windows of the Coruscant safe house. Sprinklers placed between LED screens and windows simulated a rainy day on the city planet.
6. (Above) Helen Player, one of the set buyers, began purchasing hundreds of items to stock the shelves of a liquor store on Coruscant a full six months before the scheduled shooting date.
7. (Above) 1970s airline and travel agency graphics inspired the look of Coruscant travel agency Niki-Bon for the second season of Andora.
8. Davo Skuldun's main party space was filmed in the thousand square meter Vestíbul Principal, which was designed both for entertaining and as an entrance to the performing arts and events hall Sala Principal in Valencia, Spain.
9.ILM visual effects supervisor Mohen Leo superimposed an image of the Coruscant filming location in Valencia, Spain onto a mockup of the Senate District from the Star Warsprequels to physically fit it into what had previously been created.
10. (Above) Emperor Palpatine's podium in the Imperial Senate, which the art department calls a "taco shell", was recreated for the second season ofAndor
11. (Above) The round sofa in the Senate office Mon Mothma was taken over by the sofa from the Chandrilan embassy in the first season of Andor
12. (Above) Gorman's 500-foot-long outdoor set was built on the same Pinewood Studios set that once housed the village sets of Jakku and Maz's Castle Ruins forThe Force Awakens, the city of Jedha forRogue Oneand the landing pad on Kessel for “Han Solo. Star wars. Stories".
13.Gorman was a complex structure comprising the IOC lobby, hotel lobby and café interiors, as well as the plaza, streets, hotel and Imperial balconies and the exterior of the robbery escape tunnel.
14. (Above) The set for the tunnel escape for the Gorman truck heist was built in the paddock at Pinewood Studio, where just over four years ago, a tense duel between Rey and Kylo took place Renomon the wreckage of the second Death Star forthe film “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” The Rise.
15. Ghorman's signature green color was inspired by 1970s Italy and the avocado-colored bathrooms of that era.
16. (Above) Dialect teacher Marina Tindall created the language of Gore, but unlike other writtenStar Warslanguages like Aurebesh, which are based on a core galactic language, Gore can only be translated if you understand its spoken component.
17. Two versions of the written Gorman language were created: Gorle, or high gore, and Dixian, or low gore, named after graphic designers Ellie McKee and Lauren Dix.
18. (Above) Gorman's architecture and culture were inspired by Turin in Northern Italy and Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
19. The costumes of the Gorman Front freedom fighters were inspired by the French and Italian Resistance fighters of World War II.
20.The art department created a collar for an animatronic dog-like creature outside the Ghorman Front headquarters, adding the name "Elvis" in Dixian, one of Ghorman's written languages.
21. The surfaces of the tables from the Palmo Plaza set were decorated with designs for playing various board games.
22. Costume designer Michael Wilkinson was inspired by the fashions of Northern Italy and France in the 1930s and '40s for the people of Gorman.