‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy & Diego Luna On Lightspeeding ‘Star Wars’ To A Whole Other Galaxy Of Gravitas
deadline.comJust as he redefined the legal drama with the Oscar-winning movie Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy has made arguably the most serious Star Wars streaming series to date in Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Andor, which is steeped in the binary of a burgeoning morose utilitarian empire that’s dominating the denizens of the universe.
Set before the events of the 2016 prequel, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which focused on the band of misfit spies who team up to steal the Death Star plans (which are in turn used by the Rebellion to take out the massive space station in 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope), Andor follows Rogue One’s Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) — known for being a thief, a liar and a cheat — as he becomes a lynchpin in the Rebellion’s rise against the Empire.
Gilroy wound up writing on Rogue One and handled additional shoots and edits on that Gareth Edwards-directed movie. The series, in allegorical fashion, hits close to home in echoing a lot of what we see on the news, from the rise of the Trump era, the liberals who seek to undermine it, the Mexican border crisis, and the war in Ukraine.
In an interview before the WGA strike, Gilroy and Luna share more insights on Season 1. At the time, they were halfway through production of Season 2.
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