Andor’s Tony Gilroy Teases Season One Finale and Season 2 Plans

With seemingly each single episode of Andor season one, it’s solely gotten higher. Every character will get richer, the Star Wars lore will get deeper, and the grip in your chair will get tighter as the strain mounts and mounts and mounts. That was the plan for showrunner Tony Gilroy, and in a brand new interview, he seems to be forward to the season finale and the one line that can put all of it in perspective.

“The first year is really about him becoming, and the last line of this tranche of 12 episodes will sum up where we’ve been trying to get to,” Gilroy told Rolling Stone. “And we come back a year later [for season two]. It’ll be very different. The next four years [of story] are not about becoming a revolutionary. They’re about learning to be a leader and how difficult it is to put the alliance together and what happens to people who are the original gangsters versus the establishment and a lot of different other issues … I’m hoping what we’re gonna do in the second half [of the series] will make the meal feel really satisfying.”

Through the primary 10 episodes, we’ve slowly however absolutely seen Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) study to be a frontrunner, as a number of different leaders like Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård) and Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) wrestle with organizing a gaggle to oppose the Empire. But how Cassian will find yourself coming again to these characters remains to be up within the air, and Gilroy says the ultimate two episodes of this season will start to point out the trail ahead.

“I saw somebody say that we were spreading ourselves too thin with all these characters. But we [will] be pulling people together,” he mentioned. “That is not something that we would let go by. And we won’t be leaving you with much of an enigmatic ending. Hopefully, [episodes 11 and 12] are the most powerful two episodes that we have in the show. It’s our emotional catharsis. It’s our physical catharsis. It’s our summing up for these 12 episodes. We’ve invested a lot in it, so we have high expectations that we’re paying it off.”

Once that payoff occurs, it’s on to season two. Gilroy has been prepping season two of Andor for a yr and will probably be start filming within the United Kingdom earlier than the top of the yr. Previously, the showrunner acknowledged that season two’s 12 episodes will probably be damaged into 4 three-episode arcs, every separated by a couple of yr, main proper as much as the beginning of Rogue One. And now he explains how he’s going to make use of that unorthodox narrative to counterpoint the beforehand established tone.

“I’m carrying forward something like 30 characters. So what becomes interesting is now we can play the negative space,” Gilroy mentioned. “When you jump a year, what happened in between? You know the people, you know what their trajectory was. It’s energizing. We will be starting new characters, obviously, in the next 700 pages. There will be all kinds of new things and will be just as granular as we ever were. And really, the second half is about, what does time do to these people? People grow up and people get tired and people betray each other and people change their minds and people get weak and people get crazy.”

If you’re a fan of Andor, you’ve received to learn the full Rolling Stone article. Gilroy handle criticism that the primary three episodes of the present are too gradual, talks about crafting the jail arc and why it’s essential to Cassian, explains why there aren’t extra aliens or creatures on the present, says Perrin Fertha is certainly one of his favourite characters, and even is requested what the prisoners had been making. It’s an incredible piece.

The closing two episodes of Andor season one will probably be out November 16 and 23, respectively, on Disney+.

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