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  • Goodbye, Star Wars: Tony Gilroy wants to move on after Andor season 2

    It’s the final countdown for Tony Gilroy in the Star Wars universe.

    Gilroy has spent the last 10 years working on two Star Wars projects: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Andor. The latter returns on April 22 for the second and final season of the Disney+ show. Gilroy has spent a long time in a galaxy far, far away. Because of Andor’s critical success, many fans are pushing for Gilroy to work on another Star Wars project. Despite the support, Gilroy is ready to move on and do another project outside of Star Wars.

    “I think I’ve contributed enough for the time being,” Gilroy told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet of the Andor season 2 premiere. “I think I’d like to do something else for a while. Never say never, but right now, I’d like to go back and direct a movie, maybe.”

    Andor is the origin story for Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor, the petty thief who will eventually become one of the Rebellion’s most important leaders. Andor season 1 is set five years before the events of Rogue One. Season 2 will cover the remaining four years before Rogue One. The season consists of 12 episodes split into four three-episode chapters. Each chapter represents one year in Cassian’s life.

    Andor season 2 stars Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’Reilly, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Faye Marsay, Varada Sethu, Elizabeth Dulau, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn, and Forest Whitaker.

    Season 1 received universal praise upon its debut in September 2022, with many calling it Lucasfilm’s best Star Wars show. Andor season 1 garnered three Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series.

    Despite wanting to exit the Star Wars universe, Gilroy is extremely grateful for what he created.

    “I don’t think it’s a stretch at all to say this is the most important thing I’ll ever have a chance to work on,” Gilroy said about Andor. “It’s a major chunk of my life. We made eight movies in five years, that’s what we did really. That’s how we think of it” with how the episodes are broken up.”

    The first three episodes of Andor season 2 premiere on April 22 on Disney+.

  • Andor creator credits The Mandalorian for paving the way for the series

    Among critics and some Star Wars fans, Andor season 1 was considered the best show in the franchise to date even above its predecessor, The Mandalorian. Those voices grew even louder after The Mandalorian season 3 didn’t generate the positive response that the first two seasons had. Regardless, Andor creator Tony Gilroy insists that there isn’t a rivalry between the two shows. He went on to contend that without The Mandalorian, Andor wouldn’t exist.

    “The success of The Mandalorian gave us the platform to jump off,” said Gilroy during an interview with Empire Magazine. “Their success is what would fuel the whole thing. I mean, no Baby Yoda, no Andor. Seriously. Don’t think that we don’t know that.”

    Gilroy went on to shoot down rumors of any rivalry between himself and The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau or Lucasfilm chief creative officer Dave Filoni.

    “Online, [people] try to drive a wedge all the time between us, and [Jon] Favreau and [Dave] Filoni,” noted Gilroy. “It’s horrible what people say; it’s terrible. And the truth is, we don’t have a show without them. They gave us the muscle to go.”

    The Mandalorian is spreading to theaters next year with The Mandalorian & Grogu, but Andor season 2 is the end of the road for this Rogue One prequel series. Diego Luna, who stars in the series as Cassian Andor, told SFX Magazine that the show’s conclusuon will flow natrually into the beginning of Rogue One.

    “If you have your DVD or Blu-ray of Rogue One, you should plug it in as soon as the season ends, and you’ll see a film that will be resignified,” said Luna. “You’re going to see it differently, with so much information you didn’t have before. You knew nothing about this bunch of Rebels that got together and made this sacrifice, and then we did a show of 24 episodes about one of them. I definitely believe it’s going to change the experience because it’s now so full of answers – almost many more than you even wanted when you watched Rogue One.

    Andor season 2 will have a three-episode premiere on Disney+ on April 22.