GENRE ROLES

Tony Gilroy on how far you can push the Star Wars envelope

Star Wars has traditionally been reluctant to play around with genre as much as its Disney stablemate Marvel, but Andor creator Tony Gilroy believes there’s room to try new things in a galaxy far, far away. “I think we’ve made our lane with Andor, and Skeleton Crew was trying to do their own, too. The hope is that you can do anything, and we’re going to open up some canonical things and concepts in Andor that maybe will get people excited to do other things. “I always fantasised that the show would break new ground, that someone would be able to make a three-camera sitcom in Star Wars or a horror movie. I think the first thing I said to Kathy [Kennedy, Lucasfilm president] when she said they wanted to open…

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