Diego Luna just left London’s Pinewood Studios after a long day of shooting Andor’s second season, and as he signs onto Zoom from the back of a car heading home, he realizes he’s still wearing the day’s makeup — including what appears to be a fake bruise on his left cheek. “I don’t want to give anything away,” he says, only half-jokingly, and starts wiping off the makeup.
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- 4/26/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
“Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight is set to write the screenplay for the untitled “Star Wars” movie that Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (“Ms. Marvel”) is attached to direct, as original screenwriters Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson have departed the project, Variety has confirmed.
The movie is widely expected to be among Lucasfilm’s first “Star Wars” films since 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” More information about the movie, including a possible title, is expected to be announced at the Star Wars Celebration in London in April. (A representative for Lucasfilm did not respond to a request for comment.)
Knight is a veteran screenwriter who launched his career specializing in gritty crime dramas like 2002’s “Dirty Pretty Things” and 2007’s “Eastern Promises,” eventually branching out to lighthearted dramedies (2014’s “The Hundred-Foot Journey”), war thrillers (2016’s “Allied”), and biopics (2021’s “Spencer”). He also created and executive produced the BBC period crime drama “Peaky Blinders,...
The movie is widely expected to be among Lucasfilm’s first “Star Wars” films since 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” More information about the movie, including a possible title, is expected to be announced at the Star Wars Celebration in London in April. (A representative for Lucasfilm did not respond to a request for comment.)
Knight is a veteran screenwriter who launched his career specializing in gritty crime dramas like 2002’s “Dirty Pretty Things” and 2007’s “Eastern Promises,” eventually branching out to lighthearted dramedies (2014’s “The Hundred-Foot Journey”), war thrillers (2016’s “Allied”), and biopics (2021’s “Spencer”). He also created and executive produced the BBC period crime drama “Peaky Blinders,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
A number of recent releases have flown under the radar due to the hustle and bustle of Oscar season, and Benjamin Caron’s Sharper is among those titles that warrants your attention.
Released last month on Apple TV+, Caron’s feature directorial debut stars Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan, as well as John Lithgow, Justice Smith and Briana Middleton. And while it’s best to go into the thriller completely blind, it chronicles a New York City-based confidence game that affects a number of interconnected characters. The story’s underbelly hit somewhat close to home for the filmmaker as he was able to draw on experiences from his childhood in the Midlands of England.
Because the film is most rewarding without the foreknowledge of con artists being involved, Caron was rather protective of the film’s marketing campaign. In fact, he even suggested a trailer that would include misdirection in the form of a rom-com.
Released last month on Apple TV+, Caron’s feature directorial debut stars Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan, as well as John Lithgow, Justice Smith and Briana Middleton. And while it’s best to go into the thriller completely blind, it chronicles a New York City-based confidence game that affects a number of interconnected characters. The story’s underbelly hit somewhat close to home for the filmmaker as he was able to draw on experiences from his childhood in the Midlands of England.
Because the film is most rewarding without the foreknowledge of con artists being involved, Caron was rather protective of the film’s marketing campaign. In fact, he even suggested a trailer that would include misdirection in the form of a rom-com.
- 3/20/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Consider this a rare anti-spoiler warning, meaning the below quotes are general enough that anyone can feel free to keep reading, even if you haven't watched the season finale of "Andor" just yet.
What makes a hero? Is it the disposable soldiers sent to the front line, the shadowy spies and double agents who do their dirty work where nobody can see them, or the politicians quietly providing the funding for rebellion while attempting to work within the rules of the system?
To this point, "Star Wars" has rarely interrogated this complicated concept, at least not beyond the most surface-level consideration. That makes perfect sense, of course, given that George Lucas created this franchise with children in mind and never really had the time or desire to devote an entire season worth of storytelling to more complex and nuanced topics. That approach eventually changed in a big way, first with...
What makes a hero? Is it the disposable soldiers sent to the front line, the shadowy spies and double agents who do their dirty work where nobody can see them, or the politicians quietly providing the funding for rebellion while attempting to work within the rules of the system?
To this point, "Star Wars" has rarely interrogated this complicated concept, at least not beyond the most surface-level consideration. That makes perfect sense, of course, given that George Lucas created this franchise with children in mind and never really had the time or desire to devote an entire season worth of storytelling to more complex and nuanced topics. That approach eventually changed in a big way, first with...
- 11/23/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
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When James Cameron’s Titanic — the top-grossing best picture winner of all time with 2.2 billion in worldwide ticket sales, including 600.8 million domestically — won the Academy Award for best picture in 1998, more than 55.3 million viewers tuned in to the Oscar telecast. Other box office hits vying for the honor included As Good as It Gets, which earned more than 148 million domestically, and Good Will Hunting, with 138.4 million.
A year later, Oscar ratings began a decades-long precipitous decline as smaller, adult-skewing fare from specialty distributors began dominating the best picture contest. In mid-2009 — the final straw was The Dark Knight being snubbed — Academy members were so concerned that then-president Sid Ganis expanded the category to as many as 10 films in hopes of including studio event pics that are actually being seen by tens of millions of moviegoers.
Did it work? Yes and no. The Hurt Locker...
When James Cameron’s Titanic — the top-grossing best picture winner of all time with 2.2 billion in worldwide ticket sales, including 600.8 million domestically — won the Academy Award for best picture in 1998, more than 55.3 million viewers tuned in to the Oscar telecast. Other box office hits vying for the honor included As Good as It Gets, which earned more than 148 million domestically, and Good Will Hunting, with 138.4 million.
A year later, Oscar ratings began a decades-long precipitous decline as smaller, adult-skewing fare from specialty distributors began dominating the best picture contest. In mid-2009 — the final straw was The Dark Knight being snubbed — Academy members were so concerned that then-president Sid Ganis expanded the category to as many as 10 films in hopes of including studio event pics that are actually being seen by tens of millions of moviegoers.
Did it work? Yes and no. The Hurt Locker...
- 11/14/2022
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spoiler Warning: This story contains discussion of major plot developments through Season 1, Episode 10 of “Andor,” currently streaming on Disney+.
Tony Gilroy knows how people feel about “Andor.” While the veteran screenwriter and director — “The Devil’s Advocate,” the “Bourne” franchise, “Michael Clayton,” “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” — does not have a presence on social media, he has occasionally dipped into Twitter incognito to see how audiences have been responding to his “Rogue One” prequel series for Disney+.
And? “It’s just the greatest frickin’ thing,” Gilroy says with a massive grin.
As anyone who has watched the show and/or been on Twitter since it debuted Sept. 21 knows, “Andor” has been one of the most enthusiastically well received “Star Wars” projects of the Disney era. Between its sprawling cast and labyrinthine plotting, the 12-episode series has raced headlong into territory many “Star Wars” fans did not know was possible: mature,...
Tony Gilroy knows how people feel about “Andor.” While the veteran screenwriter and director — “The Devil’s Advocate,” the “Bourne” franchise, “Michael Clayton,” “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” — does not have a presence on social media, he has occasionally dipped into Twitter incognito to see how audiences have been responding to his “Rogue One” prequel series for Disney+.
And? “It’s just the greatest frickin’ thing,” Gilroy says with a massive grin.
As anyone who has watched the show and/or been on Twitter since it debuted Sept. 21 knows, “Andor” has been one of the most enthusiastically well received “Star Wars” projects of the Disney era. Between its sprawling cast and labyrinthine plotting, the 12-episode series has raced headlong into territory many “Star Wars” fans did not know was possible: mature,...
- 11/10/2022
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Ask anyone involved with "Andor" about the main reason behind the show's creative success and inevitably, the first thing they'll point to is the vision of creator Tony Gilroy. Brought on board to help bring "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" across the finish line back in 2016, the filmmaker behind "Michael Clayton" and the scripts of the "Bourne" trilogy proved impressive enough to bring back for another go-around on the "Star Wars" carousel with the spin-off series based on Cassian Andor (Diego Luna).
The results of handing the creative reins for "Andor" over to Gilroy has been pretty self-evident. Judging from the critical response to the rather un-"Star Wars"-like production (you can check out /Film's Vanessa Armstrong's review here), such a creative shake-up was exactly what this franchise needed. Part of that shake-up involved turning up the violence, the adult situations, and proposing some pretty anti-authoritarian politics for...
The results of handing the creative reins for "Andor" over to Gilroy has been pretty self-evident. Judging from the critical response to the rather un-"Star Wars"-like production (you can check out /Film's Vanessa Armstrong's review here), such a creative shake-up was exactly what this franchise needed. Part of that shake-up involved turning up the violence, the adult situations, and proposing some pretty anti-authoritarian politics for...
- 11/9/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman) is headed into the director’s chair for an upcoming thriller titled The Pack, Deadline reports, with Florence Pugh (Midsommar) attached to star.
Skarsgård will also be starring in the film alongside Pugh. The Pack is being described as a psychological thriller, and it’s said to “have echoes” of Nightcrawler (2014).
Deadline reports today, “The film, which begins shooting in March, follows a group of documentarians who brave the remote wilderness of Alaska in an effort to save a nearly extinct species of wolves. When the crew is brought back together at a prestigious awards ceremony, tensions flare as a deadly truth threatens to unravel their work.
“The team lived through the harsh elements of the wild but will a secret they share survive the night?”
Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton) will produce the original script written by Rose Gilroy with 30West financing and executive producing.
The...
Skarsgård will also be starring in the film alongside Pugh. The Pack is being described as a psychological thriller, and it’s said to “have echoes” of Nightcrawler (2014).
Deadline reports today, “The film, which begins shooting in March, follows a group of documentarians who brave the remote wilderness of Alaska in an effort to save a nearly extinct species of wolves. When the crew is brought back together at a prestigious awards ceremony, tensions flare as a deadly truth threatens to unravel their work.
“The team lived through the harsh elements of the wild but will a secret they share survive the night?”
Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton) will produce the original script written by Rose Gilroy with 30West financing and executive producing.
The...
- 10/28/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: In-demand Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (Dune: Part Two) is set to lead the psychological thriller The Pack, we can reveal.
Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) is set direct and co-star in the film, which will be one of the hottest packages at next week’s American Film Market.
The film, which begins shooting in March, follows a group of documentarians who brave the remote wilderness of Alaska in an effort to save a nearly extinct species of wolves. When the crew is brought back together at a prestigious awards ceremony, tensions flare as a deadly truth threatens to unravel their work. The team lived through the harsh elements of the wild but will a secret they share survive the night?
Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton) will produce the original script written by Rose Gilroy with 30West financing and executive producing. The project has echoes of Fox-produced thriller Nightcrawler.
The Veterans...
Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) is set direct and co-star in the film, which will be one of the hottest packages at next week’s American Film Market.
The film, which begins shooting in March, follows a group of documentarians who brave the remote wilderness of Alaska in an effort to save a nearly extinct species of wolves. When the crew is brought back together at a prestigious awards ceremony, tensions flare as a deadly truth threatens to unravel their work. The team lived through the harsh elements of the wild but will a secret they share survive the night?
Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton) will produce the original script written by Rose Gilroy with 30West financing and executive producing. The project has echoes of Fox-produced thriller Nightcrawler.
The Veterans...
- 10/28/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman and Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
"Andor" has quickly featured a number of deadly important milestones for "Star Wars." Quite so, creator Tony Gilroy's hard-edged look at the birth of the Rebel Alliance not only marks the first time someone has uttered "s***" in a galaxy far, far away, but it's also the first "Star Wars" live-action movie or series to confirm that individuals in this universe do, in fact, need to pee. It turns out "Star Wars" people even have casual sex! (And here I was thinking it was solely those frisky midi-chlorians that were getting around.)
More than any other "Star Wars" project to date, "Andor" tends to concern itself with the minutiae of life among both the Rebels and Imperials, from their predilection for blue cuisine to their hygiene practices. It's all vital to Gilroy and his creative team's efforts to ground the series' fantastical universe in realism more than any other...
More than any other "Star Wars" project to date, "Andor" tends to concern itself with the minutiae of life among both the Rebels and Imperials, from their predilection for blue cuisine to their hygiene practices. It's all vital to Gilroy and his creative team's efforts to ground the series' fantastical universe in realism more than any other...
- 10/27/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
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The 2022 Marrakech Film Festival will pay tribute to talents from four continents this year, with Scottish actor Tilda Swinton, U.S. director James Gray, Bollywood superstar Ranveer Singh and pioneering Moroccan filmmaker Farida Benlyazid all receiving the festival’s Étoile d’or, or Golden Star, honor for their contributions to cinema.
Swinton, an Oscar winner for Michael Clayton (2007), most recently appeared in a doppelgänger performance as a filmmaker and her elderly mother in Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, her third film with the British director. In a statement, Swinton called the Étoile d’or honor “truly touching. To return [to Marrakech] to celebrate with my friends this exceptional forum for world cinema and the perpetual global fellowship of film love with the beautiful audience there will be a pure joy for which I am deeply grateful.”
Tilda Swinton in ‘The Eternal Daughter’
Veteran filmmaker Gray,...
The 2022 Marrakech Film Festival will pay tribute to talents from four continents this year, with Scottish actor Tilda Swinton, U.S. director James Gray, Bollywood superstar Ranveer Singh and pioneering Moroccan filmmaker Farida Benlyazid all receiving the festival’s Étoile d’or, or Golden Star, honor for their contributions to cinema.
Swinton, an Oscar winner for Michael Clayton (2007), most recently appeared in a doppelgänger performance as a filmmaker and her elderly mother in Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, her third film with the British director. In a statement, Swinton called the Étoile d’or honor “truly touching. To return [to Marrakech] to celebrate with my friends this exceptional forum for world cinema and the perpetual global fellowship of film love with the beautiful audience there will be a pure joy for which I am deeply grateful.”
Tilda Swinton in ‘The Eternal Daughter’
Veteran filmmaker Gray,...
- 10/27/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Andor," if you will forgive me for being forward, is readily the best live-action "Star Wars" show made to date (with no offense intended to our beloved helmeted himbo Din Djarin and his son Grogu). But more than that, it's a streaming series that's actively redefining what a Star War can even be, now that George Lucas' mega-successful creation is residing under the watchful eye of Sauron Mickey Mouse.
Created by credited "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" co-writer Tony Gilroy, who was heavily involved in the film's reshoots, "Andor" might give off the impression of being a typical origin story for its namesake, "Rogue One" lead Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). In motion, however, it plays far less like your average "Star Wars" adventure tale offering something for viewers of all ages, and more like an adult sci-fi drama. Moreover, with its focus on the mundanities of Imperial bureaucracy and...
Created by credited "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" co-writer Tony Gilroy, who was heavily involved in the film's reshoots, "Andor" might give off the impression of being a typical origin story for its namesake, "Rogue One" lead Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). In motion, however, it plays far less like your average "Star Wars" adventure tale offering something for viewers of all ages, and more like an adult sci-fi drama. Moreover, with its focus on the mundanities of Imperial bureaucracy and...
- 10/25/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Forget about Michael Myers. Here’s something that will really give Jamie Lee Curtis a reason to scream.
Her first-ever Oscar nomination.
No, this isn’t a Halloween prank or a desperate cry for awards attention. We need to take Hollywood’s most celebrated scream queen seriously as a contender this Oscar season. Here are five reasons why Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) could (and should) earn her first-ever Academy Award bid, for Best Supporting Actress in the A24 hit film.
1. She’s overdue for recognition by the academy.
She made her film debut in the original “Halloween” in 1978, and there’s no question that it’s the movie for which she’s best known. But we have to ask ourselves why the film turned into a phenomenon, and why audiences developed such affection for Laurie Strode – the heroine so perfectly portrayed by Curtis. It might have been a throwaway role,...
Her first-ever Oscar nomination.
No, this isn’t a Halloween prank or a desperate cry for awards attention. We need to take Hollywood’s most celebrated scream queen seriously as a contender this Oscar season. Here are five reasons why Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) could (and should) earn her first-ever Academy Award bid, for Best Supporting Actress in the A24 hit film.
1. She’s overdue for recognition by the academy.
She made her film debut in the original “Halloween” in 1978, and there’s no question that it’s the movie for which she’s best known. But we have to ask ourselves why the film turned into a phenomenon, and why audiences developed such affection for Laurie Strode – the heroine so perfectly portrayed by Curtis. It might have been a throwaway role,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Tariq Khan
- Gold Derby
This post contains spoilers for "Andor" episode six.
George Lucas' "Star Wars: A New Hope" is unusual in that it both is and isn't an outlier among other famous 1970s films. Between the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and the decline of the Civil Rights Movement (among other types of social reform activism in the '60s), the '70s was a period of distrust and cynicism. This manifested itself in the cinema of the decade, from paranoid thrillers — be they of the true-story ("All the President's Men"), pulpy ("Marathon Man"), or sci-fi variety (Lucas' own "Thx 1138") — to the gritty character dramas of Sidney Lumet and Martin Scorsese.
"Andor," as /Film's Bryan Young has observed, has more in common with '70s movies like "Taxi Driver" than even Lucas' original vision for "Star Wars." In "A New Hope," the characters are squarely divided into good people and bad people, save...
George Lucas' "Star Wars: A New Hope" is unusual in that it both is and isn't an outlier among other famous 1970s films. Between the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and the decline of the Civil Rights Movement (among other types of social reform activism in the '60s), the '70s was a period of distrust and cynicism. This manifested itself in the cinema of the decade, from paranoid thrillers — be they of the true-story ("All the President's Men"), pulpy ("Marathon Man"), or sci-fi variety (Lucas' own "Thx 1138") — to the gritty character dramas of Sidney Lumet and Martin Scorsese.
"Andor," as /Film's Bryan Young has observed, has more in common with '70s movies like "Taxi Driver" than even Lucas' original vision for "Star Wars." In "A New Hope," the characters are squarely divided into good people and bad people, save...
- 10/12/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
With its lived-in feel and measured pace, Andor is a very different kind of Star Wars show, and its showrunner, Tony Gilroy, is a very different kind of Star Wars creator. Not only did he have minimal interest in the franchise until he came on as a script doctor for 2016’s Rogue One, his extensive resumé as a writer and director favored the realistic and earthbound – writing the Bourne movies was about as fantastical as he’d gotten. (On the other hand, Gilroy did co-write 1997’s The Devil’s Advocate, in...
- 9/25/2022
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
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When Tony Gilroy joined the Star Wars galaxy to reconfigure Rogue One, he was unafraid to make the tough choices. His superpower, as he called it, was that he wasn’t a lifelong Star Wars fan, allowing him to take some big swings such as sacrificing Rogue’s main characters. Gilroy certainly became a fan of the franchise during his time on Rogue, paving the way for him to join Andor as creator/showrunner once previous development stalled.
When the series eventually entered into production, Gilroy noticed that his collaborators were altering their behavior and performance because of their nostalgia for Star Wars. So he had to encourage them to put aside their fondness as best they could.
“In every department, we’ve had all kinds of people come in, and they know it’s Star Wars, so they change their behavior. They change their attitude.
When Tony Gilroy joined the Star Wars galaxy to reconfigure Rogue One, he was unafraid to make the tough choices. His superpower, as he called it, was that he wasn’t a lifelong Star Wars fan, allowing him to take some big swings such as sacrificing Rogue’s main characters. Gilroy certainly became a fan of the franchise during his time on Rogue, paving the way for him to join Andor as creator/showrunner once previous development stalled.
When the series eventually entered into production, Gilroy noticed that his collaborators were altering their behavior and performance because of their nostalgia for Star Wars. So he had to encourage them to put aside their fondness as best they could.
“In every department, we’ve had all kinds of people come in, and they know it’s Star Wars, so they change their behavior. They change their attitude.
- 9/23/2022
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For as unimaginably large universe as "Star Wars" is -- full of potential to host stories with all sorts of different tones, protagonists, and even mediums (as proven by the property's shift away from the big screen and towards Disney+ streaming) -- the franchise can't help but bring things back to the famous Skywalker family again and again. In one sense, it feels natural that the characters who started it all in George Lucas' original trilogy would cast a long shadow extending to countless other adventures. On the other hand, isn't there something terribly restrictive about viewing the entire franchise through a Skywalker filter?
When "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" came to theaters back in 2016, everything from its gritty aesthetic to its war movie ambitions to its "disposable" group of scrappy main characters signaled a major shift in approach. The execution of director Gareth Edwards' distinctive vision ended up...
When "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" came to theaters back in 2016, everything from its gritty aesthetic to its war movie ambitions to its "disposable" group of scrappy main characters signaled a major shift in approach. The execution of director Gareth Edwards' distinctive vision ended up...
- 9/21/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
“You just walk in like you belong,” Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor impatiently explains in the impelling Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prequel series Andor that debuts Wednesday on Disney+ with three episodes and rolls out once a week thereafter.
“They are so proud of themselves, they don’t even care,” the future Rebel Alliance intelligence officer tells the mysterious Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) as Imperial minions are on their way. “They are so fat and satisfied, they can’t imagine it …that someone like me could get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear,” Andor adds of the realities of living under the harsh bureaucratic boot of the Empire in the George Lucas-created galaxy far far away.
Set in a derelict industrial building, this two-hander scene from the Toby Haynes-helmed third episode of the Tony Gilroy-created Andor strikingly illustrates...
“They are so proud of themselves, they don’t even care,” the future Rebel Alliance intelligence officer tells the mysterious Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) as Imperial minions are on their way. “They are so fat and satisfied, they can’t imagine it …that someone like me could get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear,” Andor adds of the realities of living under the harsh bureaucratic boot of the Empire in the George Lucas-created galaxy far far away.
Set in a derelict industrial building, this two-hander scene from the Toby Haynes-helmed third episode of the Tony Gilroy-created Andor strikingly illustrates...
- 9/20/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
"Andor" is a completely different sort of "Star Wars" show on Disney+. Where other shows feel like they are, first and foremost, a "Star Wars" property with the influences of a filmmaker laid on top of it, "Andor" feels a bit like it's the other way around. Tony Gilroy is the first and foremost influence on the show and it feels like "Star Wars" is secondary to that. For those that love the show, it's not a bad thing, it's definitely a different energy to "Star Wars" and there are some different film touchstones that might help aid in your enjoyment of the series. If nothing else, watching these will create enjoyment for you independent of "Andor," as every single one is a masterpiece worth checking out for its own merits.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
A great place to start getting ready for "Andor" is the film that...
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
A great place to start getting ready for "Andor" is the film that...
- 9/20/2022
- by Bryan Young
- Slash Film
For A Sense of what makes the ambitious new Disney+ series Andor different from just about everything else in the ever-expanding Star Wars universe, consider this: There will be no Jedi appearing over the show’s two allotted seasons, but in the very first episode, there is a scene set in a brothel — a first in the entire live-action history of the oft-sexless saga.
For showrunner Tony Gilroy (who wrote and directed 2007’s classic legal thriller Michael Clayton and wrote the Bourne movies), throwing a tasteful acknowledgment of the existence...
For showrunner Tony Gilroy (who wrote and directed 2007’s classic legal thriller Michael Clayton and wrote the Bourne movies), throwing a tasteful acknowledgment of the existence...
- 9/19/2022
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Disney's annual D23 Expo is in full swing, which naturally means new promotions for terribly short-lived deals, a heaping spoonful of self-congratulatory corporate navel-gazing, and a day-long affair where the studio unveils all the entertainment goodies its been holding back for just such an occasion. Luckily, D23 tends to live up to the hype as far as first looks and fresh footage of highly-anticipated movies and shows are concerned. One such item on every "Star Wars" fan's wishlist has been the upcoming "Andor," the Disney+ series prequel/spin-off to the 2016 film "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" — which you may remember was itself a prequel/spin-off to the original 1977 "Star Wars." We're truly through the looking glass here, people.
But compared to the likes of previous streaming "Star Wars" series, "Andor" has appeared noticeably different right from the jump. Bringing back Diego Luna as the Rebel spy/officer Cassian Andor,...
But compared to the likes of previous streaming "Star Wars" series, "Andor" has appeared noticeably different right from the jump. Bringing back Diego Luna as the Rebel spy/officer Cassian Andor,...
- 9/10/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Four long years after it was initially announced, “Andor,” the Disney+ series and prequel to “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” is nearly upon us. Created and showrun by Academy Award-nominated writer/director Tony Gilroy—the filmmaker credited with rescuing ‘Rogue One’ after he came on board to write and direct major reshoots and then overseeing the post-production process— the series debuts in September, but we’ve been fortunate to get a little taste.
Continue reading Tony Gilroy Says The Final 3 Episodes Of ‘Andor’ Season 2 Take Place 5 Days Before ‘Rogue One’ Starts at The Playlist.
Continue reading Tony Gilroy Says The Final 3 Episodes Of ‘Andor’ Season 2 Take Place 5 Days Before ‘Rogue One’ Starts at The Playlist.
- 8/24/2022
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Tony Gilroy didn’t want to make a prequel to “Rogue One.” The 2016 “Star Wars” feature, which Gilroy co-wrote, is itself a prequel, detailing how a ragged crew of rebels, led by spy Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), steal the plans to the Death Star. They succeed, but (spoiler alert!) they all sacrifice their lives doing so — an uncharacteristically dour ending for a “Star Wars” endeavor. The production was also infamously troubled, with Gilroy, who wrote four “Bourne” movies and directed “Michael Clayton,” stepping in to helm extensive reshoots in place of director Gareth Edwards. When the result was a massive hit, grossing just over 1 billion worldwide, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy was eager do more “Star Wars” movies with Gilroy.
“I remember Kathy saying, ‘What can we do?’ And I said, ‘Well, what kind of stories do you want to do?’” Gilroy recalls. “And she goes, ‘We could do anything.’ So I said,...
“I remember Kathy saying, ‘What can we do?’ And I said, ‘Well, what kind of stories do you want to do?’” Gilroy recalls. “And she goes, ‘We could do anything.’ So I said,...
- 8/24/2022
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Four years ago, Academy Award-nominated writer/director Tony Gilroy had an idea. It was two years after the release of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”—a film Gilroy joined in the middle of making to assist and then came on board to write and direct major reshoots and then oversee the post-production process. Lucasfilm has been fielding ideas for a show based on the film’s protagonist Cassian Andor (played by Diego Luna), but rather than a simple idea, Gilroy fired off a long, multi-page email slash in-depth bible that laid out the entirety of what the show could be.
Continue reading ‘Andor’: Tony Gilroy Says He Won’t Direct In Season 2 & That’s By Design at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Andor’: Tony Gilroy Says He Won’t Direct In Season 2 & That’s By Design at The Playlist.
- 8/24/2022
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
By his own admission, Tony Gilroy had "no interest" in doing a Star War before he was hired to co-write and oversee the reshoots on "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story." Prior to that, the "Michael Clayton" and "The Bourne Legacy" filmmaker tended to specialize in thrillers that wed morally-complicated characters with grounded conflicts and overly political commentary. With "Rogue One," however, Gilroy got the chance to continue exploring his primary interests as a storyteller while painting on about as large a canvas as one could reasonably hope for.
Gilroy now finds himself back in a galaxy far, far away for "Andor," a series that delves into the life of the titular Rebel spy, Cassian Andor, in the five years leading up to the capture of the original Death Star's plans in "Rogue One." That the show will be as openly political as anything else Gilroy has worked on should come as little shock.
Gilroy now finds himself back in a galaxy far, far away for "Andor," a series that delves into the life of the titular Rebel spy, Cassian Andor, in the five years leading up to the capture of the original Death Star's plans in "Rogue One." That the show will be as openly political as anything else Gilroy has worked on should come as little shock.
- 8/24/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
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John Lithgow is set to direct the off-Broadway run of Everything’s Fine, the one-man show from Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Douglas McGrath.
The autobiographical play recounts the actor, writer and director’s life, starting at the age of 14 in Midland, Texas, the town made famous by the 1987 well rescue of “Baby Jessica.” The Emma and Nicholas Nickleby screenwriter will detail some of his most significant remembrances, including the courtship of his one-eyed father and his mother — the latter of whom worked at Harper’s Bazaar for Diana Vreeland and became pals with Andy Warhol — and an eighth-grade teacher who changed McGrath’s life in the most unexpected way.
Everything’s Fine will mark McGrath’s first New York stage performance in more than 25 years. The show serves as Lithgow’s return to directing after more than four decades.
The world premiere is set...
John Lithgow is set to direct the off-Broadway run of Everything’s Fine, the one-man show from Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Douglas McGrath.
The autobiographical play recounts the actor, writer and director’s life, starting at the age of 14 in Midland, Texas, the town made famous by the 1987 well rescue of “Baby Jessica.” The Emma and Nicholas Nickleby screenwriter will detail some of his most significant remembrances, including the courtship of his one-eyed father and his mother — the latter of whom worked at Harper’s Bazaar for Diana Vreeland and became pals with Andy Warhol — and an eighth-grade teacher who changed McGrath’s life in the most unexpected way.
Everything’s Fine will mark McGrath’s first New York stage performance in more than 25 years. The show serves as Lithgow’s return to directing after more than four decades.
The world premiere is set...
- 8/22/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Andor always promised to be a different type of Star Wars show. Where series such as The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan Kenobi rely heavily on nostalgia, harkening back to the Original Trilogy or the Prequels, Andor fleshes out a movie from the Disney era, Rogue One. Very few people will be tuning in because they have fond childhood memories of watching Diego Luna’s spy Cassian Andor conduct black ops for the Rebellion.
But if Andor‘s Fiona Shaw is to be believed, the series will also separate itself from other Disney+ shows in a more substantial way: “Our world is exploding in different places right now, people’s rights are disappearing, and Andor reflects that,” the actor told Empire Magazine. For Shaw, this quality comes from showrunner Tony Gilroy, who also directed extensive reshoots for Rogue One. “Tony has written a great, scurrilous [take] on the Trumpian world,” Shaw declared.
That...
But if Andor‘s Fiona Shaw is to be believed, the series will also separate itself from other Disney+ shows in a more substantial way: “Our world is exploding in different places right now, people’s rights are disappearing, and Andor reflects that,” the actor told Empire Magazine. For Shaw, this quality comes from showrunner Tony Gilroy, who also directed extensive reshoots for Rogue One. “Tony has written a great, scurrilous [take] on the Trumpian world,” Shaw declared.
That...
- 8/4/2022
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
Writer/director Tony Gilroy has always been a keen critic of real-world politics, from “Michael Clayton” to even his work as a co-writer on “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” He’s now expanding upon the universe fleshed out in the latter film for his upcoming Disney+ “Star Wars” series, “Andor,” starring Diego Luna as Cassian Andor, the cynical thief turned rousing rebel leader.
Also among the cast that includes Genevieve O’Reilly, Forest Whitaker, and Stellan Skarsgård is beloved Irish actress Fiona Shaw, starring as Maarva. Shaw recently spoke to Empire Magazine about the series, which is set in the five years leading up to “Rogue One” and centers on the Rebel Alliance’s front against the Galactic Empire, led by the revolutionary Andor.
The series, as Shaw explained, offers a “scurrilous” take on a world where rights our disappearing, i.e. our own.
“Tony has written a great, scurrilous [take] on the Trumpian world,...
Also among the cast that includes Genevieve O’Reilly, Forest Whitaker, and Stellan Skarsgård is beloved Irish actress Fiona Shaw, starring as Maarva. Shaw recently spoke to Empire Magazine about the series, which is set in the five years leading up to “Rogue One” and centers on the Rebel Alliance’s front against the Galactic Empire, led by the revolutionary Andor.
The series, as Shaw explained, offers a “scurrilous” take on a world where rights our disappearing, i.e. our own.
“Tony has written a great, scurrilous [take] on the Trumpian world,...
- 8/3/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Film and TV public relations awards executive René Ridinger has been named VP, Awards at Walt Disney Studios.
Ridinger will focus on strategy and talent relations, working closely with internal executives and marketing and publicity teams.
In addition, Strategy PR vet Nikki Adler will be joining the Burbank, CA studio as Director, Awards, to oversee awards publicity, guild, and event strategy.
Samy Gaballa, a 20-year Disney veteran, will be stepping into a new role as Creative Arts Director, spearheading all awards-related creative.
The new awards team encompasses publicity, creative, and media and will handle film and episodic content across all labels in Disney Studios Content, including Disney Live Action, Disney Animation, Pixar Animation, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios.
The team is seated under Michelle Sewell, EVP, Global Publicity, as part of the marketing team led by the...
Ridinger will focus on strategy and talent relations, working closely with internal executives and marketing and publicity teams.
In addition, Strategy PR vet Nikki Adler will be joining the Burbank, CA studio as Director, Awards, to oversee awards publicity, guild, and event strategy.
Samy Gaballa, a 20-year Disney veteran, will be stepping into a new role as Creative Arts Director, spearheading all awards-related creative.
The new awards team encompasses publicity, creative, and media and will handle film and episodic content across all labels in Disney Studios Content, including Disney Live Action, Disney Animation, Pixar Animation, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios.
The team is seated under Michelle Sewell, EVP, Global Publicity, as part of the marketing team led by the...
- 7/11/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
With the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series in the rearview, Lucasfilm is gearing up for its next “Star Wars” show, “Andor,” a prequel series to “Rogue One A Star Wars Story” starring Diego Luna again as the title character. Spearheaded by Tony Gilroy (“Michael Clayton”) — who wrote, directed, and oversaw the reshoots and editing of ‘Rogue One’— the “Andor” series follows Cassian Andor’s early rise within the Rebellion as one of its key spies during the tyrannical reign of The Empire.
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- 7/4/2022
- by Christopher Marc
- The Playlist
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