In Disney They spare no expense in everything related to the Star Wars saga, but surely no one expected that 'Andor' would break investment records. It is true that its first season was acclaimed by critics, but also that its audiences were not exactly stellar. However, spending on the second batch of episodes has not been affected by this at all.
From Forbes they report that Disney spent $290.9 million in season 2 of 'Andor' only in 2023 and until November 22 of that year. A real outrage, because filming also started in November 2022, was stopped in the summer of 2023 and then resumed in January 2024.
More expensive than any movie
Those 290.9 million make the expenditure made by Disney until then on 'Andor' amount to 645 million dollars, A figure that far exceeds the investment made in any film in the franchise. As far as is known, the one that required the greatest expenditure was 'The Force Awakens', whose official budget was 447 million, but the real expenditure was 533.2 million. From that we must then subtract all the tax benefits to which Disney had access.
Of course, in terms of annual spending, 'The Force Awakens' has to be content with second position in the film section with 243.8 million invested in 2016. First place belongs to 'The Last Jedi' with 280 .7 million dollars.
If you have doubts about how it is possible to have access to information that studios usually prefer to keep secret, that is because productions filmed in the United Kingdom They receive up to 25.5% of the money invested back from the British government. And one of the rules to achieve this is to share all the data regarding the expenses incurred.
By the way, These expenses do not include the investment made in marketing -the British government does not have to be informed of these because the studio was not going to receive anything back-, so a few more would still have to be added to those 645 million.
'Andor' season 2 premieres on April 22, 2025.
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