The design of the Narkina 5 jail is not like something we have seen in “Star Wars” earlier than, an emblem of the cruelty and oppression of the Empire, and one of the sadistic places in current TV reminiscence. You’ve electrified flooring, which suggests escape is close to unattainable and there do not need to be as many guards, and you’ve got a system of punishment and reward that fosters a sick competitors.

Talking to Rolling Stone, showrunner Tony Gilroy defined the guideline behind the jail arc of “Andor.” In keeping with Gilroy, the present’s artistic workforce tried their darnedest to not do one thing that we had seen earlier than:

“If we will not determine one thing that no person’s ever achieved earlier than, we’re gonna do one thing else. We’re not simply gonna do the identical outdated s*** in a jail.”

The important thing to this entire factor was the electrified flooring. That easy concept turned the guiding level for each the story across the jail, and the design of the complicated itself, with manufacturing designer Luke Collins even becoming a member of the writers’ room for 5 days to plan it out. It could take one other 10 months to construct the jail, redesign it, and rewrite it into the remainder of the present. Nonetheless, at that time, “nobody [was] pondering thematically about what [the prison] means,” Gilroy admitted.

It’s the signal of an efficient design that you already know all the pieces it’s essential know concerning the jail and concerning the Empire simply by it, and the way clear, empty, and finally oppressive it’s. As soon as the design was in place, it was time to determine the jail’s thematic that means. Finally, the present’s writers realized each story arc within the sequence has one factor in widespread: revolution.