Andor And Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Turn Down The Volume
Disney recently dropped trailers for multiple upcoming MCU and Star Wars projects, two of which are particularly notable for how significantly their visuals upstage the most recent additions to each franchise. The Disney+ series Andor, which got its second trailer this week, is a prequel to Rogue One, which was, itself, a prequel to the original Star Wars. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the much-anticipated sequel to one of the MCU's biggest hits, both critically — it scored an Oscar nom for Best Picture — and commercially — it made over a billion dollars at the global box office.
That is to say, these projects are at opposite ends of the prestige spectrum. One is a TV prequel to a spin-off starring a relatively unimportant character (especially when compared with Disney's last Star Wars series which starred Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and Princess Leia). The other is the follow-up to a massive cultural event. One is designed to help Disney's streaming service retain subscribers. The other will be viewed as a disappointment if it doesn’t gross a billion dollars. A project's prestige and primacy in Disney's portfolio seem to have little bearing on whether it ends up looking good.
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The immediate predecessors in both series have used StageCraft, Disney's groundbreaking VFX technology which, through the use of massive LED screens, allows performers and filmmakers to see what the digital environment of the final product will look like as they film it. (One of these sets is called a Volume, and StageCraft and Volume are sometimes used interchangeably.) Where once there were walls of green screens and the requirement that actors imagine
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