{"id":439373,"date":"2026-02-22T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439373\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:11:09","slug":"gilory-dismisses-andor-feud-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439373\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilory Dismisses “Andor” Feud Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lucasfilm<\/p>\n

The \u201cStar Wars\u201d fandom is one often at war with itself these days \u2013 different factions who have various opinions about everything, especially anything made in the Disney era.<\/p>\n

Tony Gilroy\u2019s \u201cAndor\u201d series is one of the few things that seemed to unite a few of them, scoring a lot of love and acclaim not just from fanboys but those not heavily into \u201cStar Wars\u201d.<\/p>\n

Following Kathleen Kennedy\u2019s recent retirement as the head of Lucasfilm, The Wrap<\/a> ran an analysis piece in which an unnamed source indicated that newly installed CCO Dave Filoni disliked \u201cAndor\u201d. Filoni himself has been more involved with \u201cThe Mandalorian\u201d and \u201cAhsoka\u201d shows.<\/p>\n

A Lucasfilm spokesperson quickly denied the claim as inaccurate, but now Gilroy himself has commented on the chatter during a THR<\/a> interview, saying while he\u2019s had minimal interaction with Filoni over the years, there\u2019s been no hostility or competition between the projects:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. We\u2019ve only met a couple of times, and we\u2019ve only had a half-dozen conversations over the last ten years. Seriously. I saw Jon Favreau at a scoring session once. We\u2019ve always gotten along with those guys, and we\u2019ve never had anything but high praise for everything that they\u2019ve done. We only have our show because of them, and we\u2019ve always said that was true. There\u2019s no Andor without The Mandalorian. It would not exist. So it has never been anything but cordial and pleasant, ever, ever, ever, ever. I don\u2019t know anything that you don\u2019t know. I really don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was also asked about how prescient the series has proven to be in the wake of current U.S. politics, but Gilroy downplayed that saying they were just following history:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the future, he says he\u2019s not sure if we\u2019ll ever see something like Andor again that\u2019s \u201cmade live, not by AI\u201d. He adds: \u201cWill someone ever spend that kind of money to make something live again [on streaming]? I don\u2019t know if that will ever happen again, but what a great thing it is to be able to have done it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAndor\u201d is now available in full on the Disney+ service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm The \u201cStar Wars\u201d fandom is one often at war with itself these days \u2013 different factions who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-439373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}