Tony Gilroy Looks Back on Taking Shit Seriously in Andor

Tony Gilroy is a man with a vision. That vision guided him from the extensive reshoots of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story all the way to a Disney+ series about one of that film’s heroes, Cassian Andor—and finding in it a critical acclaim unlike anything the galaxy far, far away had seen in a generation. He’s also a very frank man who knows when that vision can potentially turn on a dime—as it did one day while filming the series in Scotland, when the writer, director, and showrunner realized that his grand plan for Andor wasn’t going to work. “We were filming, we were about halfway, three quarters of the way through filming season one, while I was really trying to come up with what was going to be the second season when we realized that we couldn’t do five years,” Gilroy recently reflected over Zoom. “So that became a very rapid exploration—you have basically a year to work on the show. It was more about being able to make the show, and pay for the show, and get the budget for the show, ... Read full article.