Andor: Tony Gilroy, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller Discuss Length of the Series and Character Development

In a recent interview with ABC's On the Red Carpet, Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy and actors Kyle Soller and Denise Gough have weighed in on how long a Star Wars series should be.



Gilroy took the occasion to highlight, yet again, why he's so thankful for this opportunity -- it's not because he's a Star Wars fan that has always wanted to play in this sandbox, but because he's an immensely talented creator who was looking for a major platform to tell the story he wants with next to no limitations, and not just in terms of budget.



He said the following:

Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) in Lucasfilm's ANDOR, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.



Gough, who plays Imperial supervisor Dedra Meero, explained that, as Gilroy has said before, the show was originally going to be five seasons long. But at some point during production for season 1, Diego Luna and Tony Gilroy met and decided they couldn't do it for this long. Gilroy then compressed the story he had laid out for the following four seasons into a second and final season:

Kyle Soller, who plays the Imperial Security Bureau agent Syril Karn, expressed how the fate of his character was, for a long time, a coin toss to Gilroy:

Gough weighed in and confirmed that her character will stay on the Imperial side the whole way through. There's no angle with her other than the fact that she's completely against our heroes:

The hype is through the roof, and Gilroy might be responsible for most of it. From all accounts, it seems like Andor will push the boundaries of Star Wars storytelling and tell a grounded, complex, and layered story set in a galaxy far, far away. The series acts as a prequel to Rogue One and will tie in directly with the movie with the series finale, as Gilroy has explained in past interviews.



The first three episodes of Andor season 1 will start streaming on Disney Plus on September 21, with new episodes hitting the platform on a weekly basis thereafter. Season 2 will begin production in the fall, with both entries being 12 episodes long.



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