As Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) ascends to a management position inside the rebel in Andor season two, he units his course for that fateful date with future in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. However the place does that depart the spectacular ensemble of different characters launched within the collection—you realize, 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 collection 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 choose up the tales of Andor‘s Rebels or Imperial personalities with out him, Gilroy stated, “Nicely, they personal all of it, they’ll do as they need. I imply we’ve made eight films in 5 years.” (Describing the work on Andor as “films” is sensible, as a result of every of season two’s three-episode drops seems like a three-hour film.)
Gilroy continued, “There’s loads of concepts, loads of new planets, loads of all the things in there; it’s theirs for the choosing.”
In the end his collaboration via Andor was a restricted expertise that has launched many new fan-favorite heroes and villains, and it’s largely due to the pinnacle of Lucasfilm. “My linkage with with Lucasfilm is primarily with Kathleen [Kennedy]. I primarily take care of her [and] Pablo Hidalgo [who] is the type of keeper of the [story lore] over there in the case of 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 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 stated of his solely interplay with Star Wars’ creator.
“We form of had been left to be free-range right here,” Gilroy stated. “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 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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