![Tony Gilroy Breaks Down Season One & Teases The Many Difficulties Of Mounting A Rebellion In Season Two [The Rogue Ones Podcast]](https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/23115233/andor-star-wars-tony-gilroy.jpg "Tony Gilroy Breaks Down Season One & Teases The Many Difficulties Of Mounting A Rebellion In Season Two [The Rogue Ones Podcast]")
The Rogue Ones: A Star Wars Andor Podcast returns for one final episode with hosts Mike DeAngelo and The Playlist’s Editor-In-Chief, Rodrigo Perez. As with the earlier episodes, every week, our hosts will recap and overview the most recent “Andor” episode and welcome solid members and creatives from the present to debate all issues “Andor” and all of the intrigue and machination of the “Star Wars” galaxy.
In the most recent episode of The Rogue Ones, our hosts break down their ideas on the season one finale of “Andor,” entitled “Rix Road,” which dropped on Disney+ at the moment. After the dialogue, Andor showrunner himself, Tony Gilroy (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Michael Clayton”), joins the podcast to additional break down the themes and targets of season one, together with the finale and teasing what’s to return.
For the uninitiated, “Andor,” created by Academy Award-nominated author/director Tony Gilroy (“Michael Clayton”), serves as a prequel to “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (which Gilroy rewrote and labored on extensively within the reshoots), which itself is a prequel; set simply earlier than the occasions of “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.” The Lucasfilm collection follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) 5 years earlier than assembly Jyn Erso and the gang in ‘Rogue One,’ as he finds himself thrust into the center of a budding insurgent cell with plans to place a stick within the Empire’s eye. It’s a primary for the “Star Wars” universe, because it acts as a political spy thriller that actually considers the age of oppression, life throughout wartime, and what it’s prefer to be on the bottom as a member of the insurgent alliance and as a member of the Imperial Army. Going even deeper, “Andor” actually examines what it’s like for on a regular basis individuals struggling beneath an oppressive regime. The present additionally stars Stellan Skarsgard, Genevieve O’Reilly, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Fiona Shaw, and extra.
The present has been largely embraced by the “Star Wars” fandom because the collection continued, with many calling it the very best “Star Wars” of the Disney period. Much has additionally been mentioned within the fan group concerning how “Andor” does or doesn’t change the sport for “Star Wars” exhibits shifting ahead. During the interview, Tony Gilroy shared lots about what’s to return in big-picture phrases.
So what’s in retailer for season two precisely? Well past connecting to ‘Rogue One,’ introducing characters like Okay-2SO and probably different acquainted characters, Gilroy intimated we’re going to see extra of the price, emotional, ethical, non secular, or in any other case, of placing on this rebel.
“There’s a scene in [‘Rogue One’] with Diego, in the [Yavin IV] hanger at the end, and [Jynn Erso] comes out and says, ‘they’re not going to go through with it,’ and Cassian is there with this whole band of guys behind him [including Melshi],” Gilroy defined. “Look, we have been killing, betraying, sabotaging, destroying our moral fabric over the last few years, and we’ve done everything, and if we don’t do this, then everything’s going to be for naught. So [we’ll] see some of that come together.”
Another aspect that Gilroy mentioned they’ll dive even deeper into in season two is numerous the nascent challenges and difficulties that Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) confronted in season one— scaling up an enterprise, the rebel that’s constructed on paranoia, lies, secrets and techniques and extra clandestine qualities.
“What do you do? If your product is paranoia, how do you collaborate?” Gilroy requested rhetorically. “How do you scale up the secrecy? How do you take that out of the garage, and how do you play with other people? So over the next four years in the second [season], you know we’re going to be dealing with—you know we’re going to end up in Yavin, and the rebel alliance that alliance is really messy. There are heroes in there, there are losers in there, and there are wannabes in there; it’s really messed up. But it’s like any political coalition.”
Gilroy additionally teased the political fates of many alliance members and the way some diverging ideologies depart them on the skin wanting in.
“What happens to Saw Guerra? What happens to the original gangsters? What happens to all the real hardcore maniacs who built it, are they welcomed in? How do you do that? That’s going to be one of the things we’re really going to be exploring and what Luthen says in episode 10 is true; that’s no game there,” Gilroy says concerning the epic monologue the place Skarsgård’s Luthen Rael says he’s put every part on the road of this trigger and he’ll seemingly by no means reside to see the daybreak of a brand new day. “He’s opening a real vein there, and I’m never going to undercut what he says there, but how do you go forward? How do you do that?”
Gilroy steered that infighting, backbiting, and inner struggles appear to be they would be the order of the day.
“That’s been true all through history,” Gilroy mentioned concerning the difficulties of placing on a revolution and getting individuals with the identical endgame purpose to agree on the way to do it and the way to combat that battle. “I’m cherry-picking from 3,000 years of revolution and all kinds of history, but if you want a comp, go look at Russia in 1916 and look at how all the factions chew each other up as much as they go after the Czar. They’re fighting each other as hard as they’re fighting the power.”
It was additionally revealed in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it second throughout the finale that Cassian was certainly [SPOILER ALERT] constructing items for the Death Star weapon whereas in jail on Narkina 5, as many followers suspected.
“The easter egg at the end [of Andor having built pieces for the Death Star], it’s fun, it’s cool, and a lot of people picked up on what it was already. It didn’t turn out to be so much of a secret. It’s confirmation.”
But Gilroy careworn {that a} extra vital aspect of all of it was the theme of future, an concept he thinks they’ll flippantly tread over in season two.
“But there’s another element of it that’s there for me – Cassian Andor he’s kind of Zelig, not in the way that he’s a shapeshifter, but he is in an incredible number of places, legitimately, that have some synchronicity,” he continued. “He does Aldhani, which causes him to go to prison, where he ends up making this part, that he doesn’t even know what it is, to a thing he’ll never know until it’s the thing that actually kills him. That’s just one of the things that I don’t want to get all ‘pixy dust’ about it, and whatever we explore like that will be very lightly handled, but there’s an element of destiny here.”
As for the upcoming season two of “Andor,” which is already being shot, and what they realized, Gilroy mentioned, in some methods, they’re extra assured as a result of they’ve already pulled it off. On the opposite hand, now you’ve obtained to do it another time and prime your self, which might really feel overwhelming.
“Well, you know what they always say, ‘You jump out of a plane the first time, you don’t know what you’re in for.’ It’s the second jump that’s the really scary one.” Gilroy mentioned of shifting forward to Season two. “We have the benefit of knowing that we only have to do it one more time, and we have the tremendous wind at our back of having built a community.”
Here’s our spoiler-filled podcast breakdown of “Andor,” Episode 12, and our dialog with returning visitor Tony Gilroy.
All episodes of “Andor” can be found now on Disney+.
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