Tony Gilroy Says the World of Andor May Increase, however It is As much as Lucasfilm

As Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) ascends to a management function throughout the rise up in Andor season two, he units his course for that fateful date with destiny in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. However the place does that go away the spectacular ensemble of different characters launched within the sequence—you already know, in the event that they make it out of this ultimate season alive?

In a sit down with io9, we requested present creator Tony Gilroy his ideas on transferring on from Andor after making a sequence of cinematic chapters that set the desk for the occasions of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.

On whether or not he thinks Lucasfilm would possibly decide up the tales of Andor‘s Rebels or Imperial personalities with out him, Gilroy mentioned, “Nicely, they personal all of it, they will do as they want. I imply we’ve made eight motion pictures in 5 years.” (Describing the work on Andor as “motion pictures” is smart, as a result of every of season two’s three-episode drops looks like a three-hour film.)

Gilroy continued, “There’s a variety of concepts, a variety of new planets, a variety of every part in there; it’s theirs for the selecting.”

In the end his collaboration by way of Andor was a restricted expertise that has launched many new fan-favorite heroes and villains, and it’s principally because of the top of Lucasfilm. “My linkage with with Lucasfilm is primarily with Kathleen [Kennedy]. I primarily take care of her [and] Pablo Hidalgo [who] is the form of keeper of the [story lore] over there in relation to retaining issues actual. He’s the historian and he’s the arbiter of what’s kosher and what’s not. I knew him from Rogue, we frolicked on Rogue and that’s my major level of reference to Lucasfilm.”

“I’ve solely spoken to George Lucas as soon as after Rogue on the cellphone—I’ve by no means met him,” he mentioned of his solely interplay with Star Wars’ creator.

“We form of had been left to be free-range right here,” Gilroy mentioned. “We form of ran wild, we stored testing. We examined the start, ‘We wish to have him go to a brothel and kill two cops!’ ‘Okay!’ ‘We wish to rent the manufacturing designer from Chernobyl!’ ‘Okay!’ We confirmed what we needed to do, after which we then we set about to do it, and so they had been simply extremely supportive.”

Andor season two premieres April 22 on Disney+.

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