Tony Gilroy, creator of ‘Andor’, explains the scarcity of aliens in his series, the only drawback that the fandom has found in the brilliant Star Wars title.
The end of ‘Andor’ has not only forced us to reorder our ranking of the best Star Wars seriesbut it has made a large part of the fandom work to find some fault to put to the brilliant series about the beginning of the rebellion and, to be honest, they have found something: Why are there so few aliens in ‘Andor’?
“In some places, people wondered why in Narkina 5 they were all human” Tony Gilroy told Collider. “Well, I don’t know how they would manage in the bathroom on that floor with eight different varieties of genitalia or whatever. I mean, it has to be like that in a system like that, maybe there’s a Narkina 2 where there are different things. We’re probably a little coy about it.”
“The Empire does not have an excess of aliens on their side,” recalls Gilroy before advancing that, in season 2 of ‘Andor’, “we’ll probably have more“.
This explanation, more or less convincing within the canon and effective if the continuity department does its homework, could be completed with a more down-to-earth one: it’s faster, cheaper and easier the fewer aliens disappear.
And no, Disney+ is not sparing any expenses as far as Star Wars is concerned, but surely the most important budget this year has gone into the expected and unsatisfactory ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, a product with which they had secured a a much more loyal audience than with ‘Andor’, more daring, refreshing and, in short, good.
And it is precisely Tony Gilroy responsible for this success. Screenwriter of the brilliant ‘The Bourne Identity’ (Doug Liman, 2002), ‘The Bourne Myth’ (Paul Greengrass, 2004) and ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ (Paul Greengrass, 2007), in 2007, he achieved a double nomination for Oscar with his directorial debut for ‘Michael Clayton’, a film in which George Clooney played a protagonist as gray and determined as the one played by Diego Luna in the series.
Gilroy, who later directed ‘Duplicity’ (2009) and ‘The Bourne Legacy’ (2012), came to the Disney family when he was hired to film new scenes for ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, Gareth’s film Edwards from which the protagonist of ‘Andor’ departs and which, according to what is said, had a totally different last third before the arrival of the new director. That summer of 2016, Gilroy was hired to “help” Edwards shoot some extra scenes. After that, we received a film in which several moments of its trailers had disappeared, increasing rumors about the importance of Gilroy’s changes that, finally, he ended up credited as a screenwriter.
‘Andor’ comes to the catalog of Disney+ willing not only to dazzle the acolytes of the George Lucas saga, but also to attract to the galactic universe the disbelievers of Star Wars, a complex task but not entirely impossible, as demonstrated by the approach of many neophytes to the franchise thanks to the benefits of ‘The Mandalorian’.
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
