You may have seen that Andor has returned to mixed reviews—but that just gives me the perfect opportunity to continue my movie series based on the earlier episodes.
Season one worked beautifully as a film trilogy, and with season two structured around three episodes spaced a year apart, it’s shaping up to be ideal for a new quadrilogy-style film edition.
After viewing the first 6 episodes, I gotta say I’m a little disappointed but it has a lot of potential. Here are my suggested changes so far…
Episode 1 - 3
• Delay use seeing Cassian til much later
• Cut down on how indestructible the new Tie is
• Cut down on how bad Cassian flies the Tie
• Edit down as much of the wedding as possible
• Cut out as much exposition dumps as I can
• Remove the “flirting” intro with Cassian and the girl (seems pointless)
• Remove all of Yavin 4 scenes and the bickering gang Cassian bumps into
• Edit together the Krennic meeting into one scene to build anticipation
• Remove some of Syril and Dedra build up to mother scene
• Remove some homestead scenes for pacing
• Rearrange a lot of scenes to lessen the back and forth
• Remove Bix saying the R word
• Add Onion layers to why Mon allowed her daughter to get married
While chapter IV movie instalment is finished, I’d like to see how the story unfolded before releasing anything to you guys.
Chapter IV coming in around 1h:51m:21s
Episode 4 - 6
• Cut out Bix temper changes. I know she’s suffering from PTSD but I feel she’s a little disjoined in a few scenes and it would be better to keep her just pretending to be happy instead of switching.
• Remove the lesbian subplot. It wasn’t needed in my trilogy and it doesn’t serve any purpose in this edit.
• Remove Mon hustling for votes.
• Remove any weirdly paced empire scenes.
• Trim down the underground community meeting.
• Reposition the Saw scenes for them to have more impact.
• Remove empire members getting carried away with drinking at the party scene.
Chapter V coming in around 2h:13m
Episode 7 - 9
• Add Wilhelm Scream
• Trim down people gathering in the square
• Cut joke between Cassian & Wilmon in U-wing
• Cut scene between Bix & Vel
• Cut scene on Cassian going upstairs and then back down
• Cut scene between Wilmon and girl
• Cut Wilmon “I’ve gotta find her” clique line
Chapter VI coming in around 2h:08m
Episode 10 - 12
• Near on perfect, just a few minor tweaks but what a finale!
Chapter VII coming in around 1h:58m
Any other suggestions welcome below…
Previous chapters if you haven’t seen those changes yet
Andor: Chapter I - https://moviesremastered.com/movieinfo.php?id=8697
Andor: Chapter II - https://moviesremastered.com/movieinfo.php?id=8699
Andor: Chapter III - https://moviesremastered.com/movieinfo.php?id=10560