Tony Gilroy Says Lucasfilm May Really Be Making a Star Wars Horror Challenge

For as lengthy has he has been bringing Andor to life, Tony Gilroy has championed the collection as one which opens the gateway for Star Wars to explore various genres it hardly ever touches on in TV and movie. And now, in line with the person himself, the franchise may truly be doing that.

Talking to Business Insider at a latest Andor occasion in London forward of the second season’s premiere later this month, Gilroy mentioned responded to a query a couple of remark he’d beforehand floated about Star Wars collection he’d wish to see, together with a horror story, saying “They’re doing that. I believe they’re doing that. I believe that’s within the works, yeah.”

Talking to SFX Magazine again in March, Gilroy had beforehand joked that Andor‘s success ought to pave the best way for a sitcom or horror challenge. “I at all times fantasized that the present would break new floor, that somebody would have the ability to make a three-camera sitcom in Star Wars or a horror film. I believe the very first thing I mentioned to Kathy [Kennedy] when she mentioned they needed to open a line, was, ‘Might you do a courtroom drama? And why not?’ We’ve labored actually exhausting on Andor to make our lane, and it’s as much as different folks now to search out one other solution to do it.”

If the horror challenge does now exist, Gilroy is seemingly not a part of its manufacturing, going by his feedback about being completely glad to spherical out his time on Star Wars with Andor‘s completion. But when it does occur (a less-than-certain assure in terms of Star Wars in latest instances), a minimum of the present can have accomplished its objectives to get Star Wars to push the scope and tones of the tales it’s prepared to inform outside of ancillary media.

io9 has reached out to Disney for remark and clarification on Gilroy’s remarks, and can replace this submit when and if we hear again.

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