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11. Tony Gilroy Asked The Writers' Team Not To Use Their Love For Star Wars While Writing Andor
One issue that has plagued the current era of Star Wars (and blockbuster storytelling in general) is a fixation on the past and the inability to move forward. Nostalgic storytelling has its place and can be emotionally effective, but more often than not it is used as a crutch that hampers any meaningful character growth or narrative risk-taking.
Fortunately, Tony Gilroy understood this while supervising the writers' room during Andor's development. He told the scribes to not rely on their feelings for the franchise while working on the spin-off.
Further expanding on this in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he mentioned that he wanted the writers (and later actors) to rely on their own artistic instincts to the story without feeling too reverent to Star Wars as a pop-culture phenomenon.
That way, he felt that the storytelling process would be allowed to take a few interesting risks and not be concerned about staying true to the already established lore.