While news of his future trilogy is scant, Simon Kinberg looks back at his love of Star Wars, his excitement for being involved in The Force Awakens and his appreciation for the work of Tony Gilroy on Andor.
“I’m a writer. Everything else I’ve done in my career I’ve learned how to do, but if I was not being paid to be a writer, I would still be writing. I know in my soul that what I am is a writer. I wanted to be a novelist when I was younger, and then I stumbled into writing movies. It feels like destiny. I couldn’t avoid it.”
“Star Wars was the thing for me when I was a kid. There are pictures of me all through childhood wearing Star Wars T-shirts and sweatshirts. When I was in the hospital for pneumonia, I woke up and my parents had left a little Lego Millennium Falcon on my chest to let me know everything was going to be OK. It’s the thing for me, and it always has been.”
“It’s not even a dream come true—I couldn’t have dreamed it. Just to be told there’d be more movies would have been unbelievable. To be allowed on the set of any of them was already a dream. My enthusiasm only grows with working on and around it.”
“There’s a ton of wildly talented folks that want to do great work. I was super inspired and just sort of awestruck by what Tony Gilroy did with Andor. I thought that was about as good of science fiction storytelling as you can do in any franchise.”