The Playlist had the great opportunity to catch up with Andor showrunner and creator Tony Gilroy to discuss the series and – despite making it clear that he believes he’s left the GFFA for the final time – how fortunate he feels to have carved out such a prominent chunk of the Star Wars story.
Yeah, I think we’re all going to drop the mic here after this one and try to do something else. Yeah, it’s time to do something else.”
“I don’t think I’ll ever have a chance to work on anything as important as this. This has been the most important thing I’ll ever get to do in terms of how much imagination went into it, how much work went into it, how much of a better writer I became doing it, how much I learned doing it, and how important the subject matter was and the scale of it. It’s hard to imagine that a situation like this would ever come around again.”
“How many people have had a chance to write about it on this scale? And then how many people had a chance to write about it on this scale and get to dramatize it and make it real? It’s never happened before with the most popular IP in the world. I mean, what a trip!”
We’re prepping for our weekly three-episode reviews of Andor season 2, so stay tuned for our podcast, website and YouTube reviews which at some turn will almost certainly celebrate the work of Gilroy and his fellow creatives, and then ‘book’ him for his next Star Wars gig. Hey, we can dream….
