He may be seaguing away from the GFFA, but as the latest issue of Empire Magazine shows, the 110th and 111th pages of the 443rd issue of Empire Magazine show that Tony Gilroy is not only invested but genuinely interested in the future of the saga, the current output and where his own two seasons of Andor sit within the wider story.
Of Jon Watts and Chris Fords Skeleton Crew he says, “I watched some of Skeleton Crew, which I thought was really, really cool. I like how committed it is to its tone, and it seems really well done.” While Rogue One is very much in his sights after completing his tour across the galaxy. “I’ll probably watch Rogue One this weekend, tiptoe through it and just see how it feels. I’ve been very leery of doing that. I don’t know why, everybody else has done it.”
The future of the galaxy is very much on people’s minds, and James Mangold’s Dawn of the Jedi project is not only a prequel (in a grand saga set a long time ago, what isn’t?) but also takes us 25,000 years before anything seen so far in the timeline. Co-written by Andor writer Beau Willimon, Gilroy can see the potential in the project. “They’re going way back. That’s kind of interesting, because it’s free.”
Unencumbered by a timeline and chronology that simply hasn’t happened yet, the scope available to the pre-Force, pre-Jedi, pre-hyperdrive, pre-lightsaber and pre-blaster galaxy is boundless. Whether it still ‘feels’ like Star Wars remains to be seen, though the mention of the Rakatans in Andor may signal the start of the canonical connective tissue reaching back millennia.
