![Tony Gilroy on the set of Andor.](https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_645/fe4f1e5c6cd37762adbc56e32b5dad12.jpg)
As a lot as Star Wars followers are trying ahead to The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew, if we’re being sincere, the crown jewel of the upcoming launch calendar is Andor. The extremely anticipated second season of the Emmy-nominated show has had a tough street amid all of the strikes and, consequently, got pushed back into the next calendar year. All of which makes what showrunner Tony Gilroy stated this week much more excruciating. In a great way.
Talking at the recent Writer’s Guild Awards, Gilroy heaped a complete new degree of reward on the upcoming second season of Andor. “I’ve been on Andor for 5 years now. We’re ending the second half,” Gilroy stated. “I’ve had a whole lot of enjoyable through the years, however I don’t know whether or not I’ve ever completed something as vital as these 24 hours of storytelling we’re doing now. I don’t know if it’s simply because it’s the factor I’m on, however I don’t assume so. I’ve by no means had an opportunity to work this massive earlier than so it’s a fairly large deal for me.”
Let’s put that assertion in perspective. Initially, Gilroy was on the WGA occasion to just accept the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Profession Achievement. It’s an award given to a WGA member “in honor of their physique of labor as a author in movement footage or tv.” So he’s placing the second season of Andor over all the things else he’s been awarded for and it’s fairly the record. Michael Clayton and The Bourne Legacy as a writer-director. The primary three Bourne motion pictures, Satan’s Advocate, Proof of Life, and Rogue One as a author. These are just some examples.
Although, there may be one bit of strange phrasing right here. Gilroy refers to “24 hours of storytelling” which isn’t instantly clear. In the past, he revealed that the 12-episode second season is damaged into 4 three-episode chapters with a few 12 months in between every. May he be referring to at least one particular piece? No. He’s nearly definitely referring to the 24 hours that embody each of Andor’s 12-episode seasons. So whereas the quote is season two-centric, actually, he’s referring to the entire present. And rightfully so. We’ll see him end it out subsequent 12 months.
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