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Post #1647198

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Patali
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Radical Andor S1 Single-Movie Cut; Ideas and Planning
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Date created
16-May-2025, 4:19 PM

I didn’t end up working on this much, and then we were so close to Season 2, I decided to wait to see what plots carry forward. And actually, my ideas haven’t changed much.

I want to do both seasons as 1 movie each. Now Season 1, I feel, to make it really work as 1 film, which it obviously isn’t made to be, I think it needs the radical restructuring that I’ve proposed here.

Season 2 however, I feel will work much better as a single film, without the need for any significant restructuring. Just a LOT of cuts.

Overall, my two movies will focus on, as I said before about the first one: Cassian, Mon Mothma, and Luthen.

  • I was not sure if I would include Syril and Deidra heavily, but now after seeing Season 2, they definitely have a place in the story. That plot developed in a great way. Both movies will include a lot of their plot as I think it is very meaty. But season 1, it will be harder to integrate with my non chronological structure. Still working that out. But, in my original post on this thread from last year, I said I would likely cut a lot of Syril in Season 1. No way that happens now, with how they delivered on that plot here.

  • I am aiming to likely cut Cassian’s friends from Ferrix in a VERY significant way. If they pop in here or there, they will just be as rebels. Any arcs focusing on Bix and Wilmon will be excised, only using them where needed in Cassian’s plot with the rebellion (the example I am thinking is when Cassian and Wilmon are escaping Gorman, that sequence will need Wilmon, but he will just be presented as a rebel). I don’t know yet if I’ll have any Bix, unless there are any significant moments like that where she is there. But if so, she’ll be presented the same way. I don’t think I will be including her as Cassian’s girlfriend. No grief against the actress, she’s great but I don’t find the character necessary.

  • In a previous comment regarding Season 1, I posted my struggle with the flashback to Cassian’s childhood in the jungle. I had come up with a great opening shot (cut from “A long time ago” and black screen, to the shot of the ship overhead smoking, crashing onto Cassian’s planet, really effective IMO), so I had become a bit attached to it. But I found it problematic in other ways, in how Maarva took Cassian when it really seemed unnecessary. Which, I don’t mind her character doing something morally dubious, the problem is the show doesn’t really address it ever, it goes nowhere. And now with the sister plotline not developing either… I don’t know if I will include the childhood sequence on his home planet, or any sister references. So I’ll have to come up with a new way to open Season 1.

  • For Season 2, watching those final episodes, I realized a GREAT opening to that film would be, starting with the flashback sequences of Luthen and Kleya. Then moving from that, to showing Kleya as an adult with Luthen, waiting to hear from Cassian. THEN cutting to Cassian. I think this will work really well.

  • However a large large large majority of the opening 3 episodes will be cut. So boring. Act 1 will setup Gorman, Act 2 will be the crisis ending with the massacre. Act 3 will be Mon Mothma’s escape to Yavin and Luthen’s death. And that will be it!