The Andor series would have cost more than $ 650 million in Disney!

For all 24 episodes. A good value for money?

Create the universe of Star Warsit is not given! Andor is a beautiful series that is expensive. Very expensive.

Tony Gilroycreator, revealed at the Atx Television Festival (relayed by Indiewire) that the 24 episodes ofAndor would have cost a total $ 650 million in Disney. A dizzying figure – which does not confirm the studio – for this galactic fresco acclaimed by criticism, broadcast in two seasons between 2022 and 2025.

This represents about $ 27 million per episode. And with episodes of about 40 minutes each, we are talking about one more cost $ 675,000 … the minute. Yes, that’s a lot.

“For Disney, this production represents a cost of $ 650 million. During 24 episodes, I never received a single note. We said ‘Fuck the Empire’ in the first season, they just replied: ‘You can avoid saying that, please?’ … and in the Season 2, they told us ‘the streaming is dead, we no longer have the money before’, so we fought for the budget. But they never censored anything. This freedom also implies responsibilities. “

The shooting of season 2 had been paused during the Hollywood strikes, which would have added about $ 20 million costs related to the production stop. According to a source close to the file, after tax deductions, each episode would have cost nearly $ 20 million, a budget comparable to that of the series House of the Dragon Or Severance.

And we will recall that the film Snape One already had a crazy budget, estimated at $ 280 million In 2016. We were already about $ 2 million per minute! But at the time, the film had reported $ 1 billion of global box office revenues for a net profit estimated at a few $ 320 million. The return on investment ofAndor will be much more delicate to quantify.