“Andor” season one has come to a wrap with episode 12, “Rix Road,” an extremely shifting, extremely rousing, symphonic crescendo the place Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw) makes a defining name to motion to Ferrix and to the galaxy: to cease sleeping, to get up, and to combat. Arguably the perfect episode of the collection, it’s up there with the perfect episodes of TV we noticed all yr, full cease.
We spoke to creator, showrunner, government producer, and author Tony Gilroy as soon as extra; he joined us on our The Rogues Ones podcast as soon as once more to speak in regards to the finale, season one, and somewhat little bit of what to anticipate in season two.
There have been two issues that folks both requested me or mentioned to me over and over about “Andor,” and I needed to put these questions in entrance of him. One was, which I jokingly put to him, that he’s ruined “Star Wars” for all of the folks in love “Andor” a lot and admire how critical, deep significant it’s. It’s going to be very troublesome to return to the cutesy Baby Yodas of all of it, I posited with amusing.
Gilroy had a extra optimistic outlook on it, although, and principally mentioned he hoped ‘Andor’ was proof of idea that doing ‘Star Wars’ otherwise can work, and he hopes it impressed every kind of latest takes that aren’t primarily based on his.
“Well, we were talking the other day about all of the lanes that could be opened [by ‘Andor’],” Gilroy mentioned. “I hope I’m opening a lane to a three-camera ‘Star Wars’ sitcom. I hope people have enough imagination to take the big lesson, which isn’t, ‘you’ve got to do it this way, this hard, or this real. The big lesson is: just don’t do the same fucking thing again. That’s all.”
Hard to argue with that standpoint. The second factor everybody stored echoing to me, from followers, is, “he has to do more; he has to at least consult on ‘Star Wars’ going forward.”
That one, I used to be personally much more skeptical about, not as a result of Gilroy hasn’t loved his time on “Star Wars,” however as a result of he already spent not less than ten months on “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” and when is alleged and accomplished and “Andor” is over, he’ll have spent 5 years of his life on this collection, and understanding his style, he’d most likely wish to transfer on and take a look at different issues (and doubtlessly use the cache earned from this collection to doubtlessly revive a few of the initiatives he was engaged on earlier than “Andor,” together with one which was a expensive, very bold challenge that was arrange at Warner Bros. with lots of A-list stars virtually on board).
Regardless, I needed to ask. Would he not less than contemplate consulting on ‘Star Wars’? The reply didn’t actually shock me.
“What do they say in the prison? What did they chant on the way out? One way out!” he mentioned with a smirk. “We had t-shirts made up that said ‘One Way Out!’ My markers will be in late February or March. I will have finally finished all the rewrites on all the scripts; everything will be deadlocked; I’ll be writing every day until March, tightening, doing all the stuff that we do; I won’t have to come up with another season, which was just this enormous pressure before so it never ended, so my fantasy is in March I’ll be able to step back at least and have something of a more normal existence and do the next year of post and all the rest of the stuff.”
“And after that, I couldn’t possibly tell you what I would do,” he continued. “Boy, that would be the dumbest answer I could make; I have no clue.”
So possibly at finest? Either approach, the person is working a really lengthy, very intense marathon and might’t probably see that far over the horizon in the meanwhile.
“Andor” is streaming now in its entirety on Disney+. We’ll be rolling out this full interview later in the present day.