Star Wars: Andor (September 21st, 2022)

[ZE_501]

I feel that way about Christian Bale. But he can act.

Mayweather. Phenomenal boxer, pathetic human being.

 

[Mondragon]

Except he didn't bail, there was always going to be multiple episode directors, he was just unable to direct the first eps himself due to covid. it's still his show, he's still producer/creator, the main writer, and the showrunner.
And a second season is in development.
https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/202...-tony-gilroys-writing-on-star-wars-andor.html

 

[jye4ever]

Wow 12 episodes nice.

Each will probably be 20 minutes lol

 

[Wor-Gar]

Getting more excited.

 

[jye4ever]

Getting more excited.

Not far away.

 

[choombaz]

Wow 12 episodes nice.

Each will probably be 20 minutes lol

With 10 minutes of credits

 

[jye4ever]

Variey:

The show will apparently call into question much of what fans understand about the pre-New Hope portion of the SW timeline. According to Gilroy, we won’t even be able to rely on Wookieepedia for the truth. As he explained:

“There are certain events that happen in these five years that are important and need to be paid attention to. There are certain people, characters that are legacy characters, that the audience, the passionate audience, really feels that they have an understanding of and know. In some cases they’re right. And in some cases, what we’re saying is, ‘What you know, what you’ve been told, what’s on Wookieepedia, what you’ve been telling each other… is really all wrong.’ […] [Or] it’s upside down, or it’s sideways, or it’s the opposite of what you thought was true. Or it’s way more interesting than you had ever thought. Or that’s a lie and there’s a reason for it. I would say that there’s some surprises in store.”

 

[jye4ever]

If I had to guess I say the big surprises that Gilroy is referring too are..

1. Mon Mothma is gay
2. Tarkin is gay
3. Rogue Squadron are all gay

 

[Wor-Gar]

I don't think Gilroy plays that way, at least I hope.

Breaking the wookiepedia seems like a great way to start a series to me.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I like to imagine that Gilroy was in a room with writers/development people and as ideas came up you had these dorks checking wookieepdia... and it probably drove him nuts. He probably didn't even know what wookieepdia was before this.

Star Wars at this point is like Marvel -- literally everything has been done. Come up with an idea, check Marvelpedia -- it's likely there. So it has to be creatively stifling and frustrating to constantly crosscheck with every idiotic idea ever put down on paper over 40 years.

 

[jye4ever]

Andor will see the Star Wars saga explored anew, and will be set five years before the events of Rogue One. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Andor creator and showrunner, Tony Gilroy, describes the upcoming Star Wars series as a “novel”, revealing that the first two seasons — made of 12 episodes each — are two parts of one whole. He said:

“We don’t have Alan Tudyk,” Gilroy confirms. “Not yet, anyway.” But fear not. Prep for a second season is already underway, and the story of how Cassian Andor met that former Imperial battle droid may be told then. “It is a second season, but it’s really, for me, the second half of the novel,” Gilroy says. “This first season is about him becoming a revolutionary, and the second 12 episodes take him into Rogue One.”

While fans may be elated to discover that Alan Tudyk’s wise-cracking K-2SO droid may appear in the future second season, what is interesting here is that Gilroy seemingly suggests that Andor will be two seasons at most. If the second season takes Cassian Andor’s story up to the events of Rogue One, then there really aren’t many places left for the series to go.

This “novel” format for the first two seasons comes just weeks after Andor composer, Adriano Goldman, revealed that the spy-thriller series was originally slated for five seasons, but was reduced to three. Now, it is possible that Lucasfilm is shortening the series even more and will use the 24 episodes to tell the complete(ish) story of Cassian Andor and the young Mon Mothma, played again by Genevieve O’Reilly.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Good again. Get in, and get out quick. Keeps focus on momentum and direction.

 

[Mondragon]

Andor's story is likley isolated enough that any "legacy" changes it effects, probably has little effect on continuity (even less Skywalker/Jedi specific saga) , and likley more has to do with just how we perceive the Rebellion at the time.
For me it only adds to the show's intrigue, and makes Andor an even more fascinating POV character.

"But Cassian is also a natural leader. “He’s seductive,” Gilroy adds. “Seductive in a way where he’s manipulating people. He compromises, he changes his mind. He’s really a perfect kind of spy, warrior, killer. How do you get to that place—and then sacrifice yourself?”

seemingly suggests that Andor will be two seasons at most. If the second season takes Cassian Andor’s story up to the events of Rogue One, then there really aren’t many places left for the series to go.

Yeah I'd take that with a grain of salt, as it's just broad-stroke indicating where he will end up.
Still could tell stories while he's already entrenched there, if they have more.

The actual quote -

“It is a second season, but it’s really, for me, the second half of the novel,” Gilroy says. “This first season is about him becoming a revolutionary, and the second 12 episodes take him into Rogue One.”

 

[Wor-Gar]

1. Mon Mothma is gay

2. Tarkin is gay

3. Rogue Squadron are all gay

 

[lord_raptor]

3. Rogue Squadron are all gay

clearly an homage to the original Top Gun

 

[Wor-Gar]

clearly an homage to the original Top Gun

I always felt that. Especially since his "girlfriend" looked more like his mom. Plus... IceMan just had this look about him.

On Top Gun.

 

[jye4ever]

 

[Wor-Gar]

That post with that avatar -- classic.

 

[Mandible]

I always felt that. Especially since his "girlfriend" looked more like his mom. Plus... IceMan just had this look about him.

On Top Gun.

As I was reading it I thought you were going to say "his girlfriend looked like a man."

 

[Neal136]