Tony Gilroy Says the World of Andor Might Increase...

As Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) ascends to a management function throughout the revolt 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 understand, in the event that they make it out of this closing 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 may choose up the tales of Andor‘s Rebels or Imperial personalities with out him, Gilroy mentioned, “Properly, they personal all of it, they’ll do as they need. 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 appears like a three-hour film.)

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

In the end his collaboration by 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 kind of keeper of the [story lore] over there in relation to conserving 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 hung out on Rogue and that’s my main 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 type of had been left to be free-range right here,” Gilroy mentioned. “We type of ran wild, we saved testing. We examined the start, ‘We need to have him go to a brothel and kill two cops!’ ‘Okay!’ ‘We need to rent the manufacturing designer from Chernobyl!’ ‘Okay!’ We confirmed what we wished to do, after which we then we set about to do it, they usually had been simply extremely supportive.”

Andor season two premieres April 22 on Disney+.

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