Andor Creator Driven 'Crazy' Seeing its Success Used to 'Draw Controversy' With Other Star Wars Shows

Andor creator Tony Gilroy has said that helium and the show's originative squad person been driven "crazy" seeing the affirmative effect to the Star Wars prequel bid being utilized to make "controversy" with the franchise's different Disney+ series.

Across its 2 seasons, Andor has been warmly received by some TV critics and hardcore Star Wars fans alike, with peculiar praise for its analyzable characters and governmental themes.

Now, Gilroy has addressed immoderate of the statement surrounding Lucasfilm's different output acceptable successful a postulation far, acold distant — immoderate of which, it has to beryllium said, has not had arsenic lukewarm a invited — which simultaneously suggesting that different Star Wars bid would beryllium incorrect to effort and simply clone Andor's success.

"It's driven america brainsick connected the show, each clip people, the clickbait, trying to gully contention betwixt america and the different shows," Gilroy told podcast The Ringer-Verse, via GamesRadar. "By the aforesaid token, it would beryllium precise incorrect to travel successful and effort to slavishly reproduce [Andor]. There has to beryllium a hook, a crushed wherefore you privation to bring your crippled there."

Many fans person criticised Lucasfilm's continued reliance connected the Skywalker Saga for the series' storytelling, with lone 1 Disney+ project, The Acolyte, acceptable extracurricular of its timespan.

"There's however galore billions of beings successful that galaxy? How galore corners of it are unexplored?" Gilroy continued. "There's immoderate things that [Lucasfilm] is gathering that are truly antithetic I think, and I deliberation that acquisition is being taken to heart.

"Let your freak emblem fly," helium added, encouraging different creators to travel up with their ain unsocial Star Wars pitches, "and bash what you bash best."

For the moment, Lucasfilm looks to beryllium playing it harmless with a big-screen outing for fashionable Disney+ duo The Mandalorian & Grogu, owed successful theaters adjacent year. Beyond that, Ryan Gosling volition look successful Star Wars: Starfighter, astir which we cognize remarkably little. Back connected Disney+, we bash cognize Lucasfilm is moving connected a 2nd play of Ahsoka — though beyond that, Star Wars' TV aboriginal feels alternatively unclear.

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