I didn’t understand it was potential for me to fall in love with Star Wars spin-off Andor any greater than I already had. Then I noticed this superb retro tribute to the Disney+ streaming hit and received pumped for the season one finale over again.
Posted on the Auralnauts YouTube channel earlier this week, “Andor 1975 TV Intro” is precisely what it says on the tin: a made-up intro for the present if it have been launched earlier than even 1977’s Star Wars had hit theaters. It showcases a grainy CRT filter, a deeply severe and gravelly baritone voiceover, and fast intros of all the foremost characters. The entire thing is minimize from precise Andor footage, and like several basic TV intro, contains nearly each main spoiler from the primary season (so be warned).
Right here it’s:
Andor 1975 TV Intro (Spoilers)
The video’s description can be on level:
It’s 1975. A New Hope received’t be launched for one more two years, and George Lucas is usually often called the American Graffiti man. You simply completed watching the newest episode of Barney Miller.
“And now, we carry you tonight’s TV film premiere. Get able to journey to a distant galaxy that existed a protracted, very long time in the past. It’s the science fiction spectacular…ANDOR. Each Thursday night time, solely on ABC.”
One motive the tribute works so nicely is that Andor is already at its coronary heart a form of fashionable homage to neo-noir science fiction from the late 1970s and early 1980s. It someway manages to marry deep dives into baroque Star Wars lore with paranoia about expertise and totalitarianism that will be at dwelling in any Philip Ok. Dick quick story. Craven Moorhaus and Zak Koonce, the abilities behind the Auralnauts remix channel, even say the Andor intro is impressed by Star Wars creator George Lucas’ personal directorial debut, THX 1138, a movie a few future dystopia the place society is medicated and managed by androids.
Showrunner Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Identification, Michael Clayton) has already confirmed that Andor will solely run two seasons, and that the second will time-jump each three episodes to assist it arrive on the occasions of Rogue One. For now, nonetheless, we nonetheless have the top of season one to sit up for, which in accordance with Gilroy ought to ship no less than one main payoff. It airs on Disney+ beginning at 3:00 a.m. ET on November 23.
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