The showrunner of StarWars: Andor reveals other RogueOne character worthy of a prequel.
With Star Wars: Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy having worked extensively on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the filmmaker was quite invested in the journey of many of that film's characters, with Gilroy recently recalling how he could also see Felicity Jones' Jyn Erso or Riz Ahmed's Bodhi Rook being complex enough characters to earn their own prequel series.
When asked by The Hollywood Reporter if Diego Luna's Cassian Andor would have been his go-to pick for a prequel series, Gilroy detailed,"I guess the Jyn Erso show would be pretty fascinating, too. My attitude is you could do anybody. I mean, the Bodhi Rook domestic drama ... Everything can be interesting if you get into it. If you dig down, it's all interesting.
In addition to Gilroy having been a writer on Rogue One, he pitched to Lucasfilm what a prequel series could be, which was initially rejected. As time went by, Lucasfilm ended up reconsidering Gilroy's pitch and the project ended up exploring different avenues and became the series it is today. "But along the way, [Lucasfilm president] Kathy [Kennedy] sent me one of the pilots that they were thinking about, but had grown cool on, and she asked what I thought," Gilroy shared with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year."And in some sort of ... I don't know. I had time. I was in some sort of manic thing, and so I just got on it for a couple days. So I wrote this big manifesto for her. 'This is what your show should be like. This is what you should never do.
Gilroy added,"So they went back and pulled this old memo, and they were like, 'We want to do this now.' They wanted to be that ambitious on this scale, and the timing was right for me. I had a bunch of other things fall apart. I was getting a little tired of things falling apart, and the one thing that they definitely have is an audience. So it wasn't an overnight thing that you tiptoe into. It takes a long time. Everybody tiptoes forward, but that's how it came to be.
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