Creative: Tony Gilroy
Address: Toby Haynes, Benjamin Caron, Susanna White
Distribution: Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Genevieve O’Reilly, Alex Ferns
Country: United States of America
Duration: 35 minutes (12 episodes; four viewed for review)
Year: 2022
Gender: galactic espionage thriller
premiere: September 21, 2022 (Disney+)
any doubt about the necessity ‘Andor’ is a prequel/spin-off of a prequel (‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’)He evaporated almost instantly when he knew who would be in control of this galactic ship: the great writer and director Tony Gilroy, who previously reportedly fixed all aspects of ‘Rogue One’, had made a place for it. honor in the saints of devotees of ‘tension’ with their scripts for Bourne series or own master ‘Michael Clayton’.
‘Andor’, the origin story of the pilot and master of espionage who led the way in the theft of the Death Star plans, could have been just another ‘Star Wars’ series: In the first (and discarded) treat, we intended to narrate an attack. The hero and droid K-2SO is on the Citadel for twenty episodes. What Gilroy suggested was more ambitious: Tell the prehistory of Cassian Andor, and incidentally the Rebellion, as if it were just another of his dramatic ‘tensions’.on the contrary, without reducing ambiguity or complexity for the mere fact of acting in an imaginary geography.
The five planned seasons have been cut to two, but the ambition is still there. ‘Andor’ is not like any other series from the ‘Star Wars’ universe, as much as an extension (with fantastic licenses) of the Gilroy universe. At least in the first part of the chapters, nothing like a lightsaber, Skywalker or ‘fan service’ mandatory exercises. The characters we follow are mostly new and unknown, with the exception of Andor (teenage hitmaker Diego Luna) or Senator Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly); Normal people with normal jobs and lives, sleeping with their girlfriend, or going to see their mother while they keep an eye on the activities of the Empire.
If Gilroy decided to devote a few years to an epic he knew little about, according to Andor himself, he was just as quick a figure as Jason Bourne when needed. In a reflection of her introduction in ‘Rogue One’, here we find Cassian, five years before the action of the movie, in a mess that forces him to leave (so to speak) a few corpses behind. It looks like Until the second season we will see that he is a revolutionary with clear ideas, but as with all martyrs, knowing his sad ending makes us want to understand him even in his most doubtful days.. To achieve this, to understand him, Gilroy and his team take us into a conspiracy parallel to his childhood in Erimi, where the anti-colonial crusades really took root.
But the revolution isn’t built with just two hands, and that’s why ‘Andor’ has almost two hundred characters with script lines and we’re witnessing it. building a whole community, not just a character. Something with a lot to do from very different strategies, a Senator Mothma defined by extreme finesse of nuance, and a fascinating super-spy with his traits. Stellan Skarsgard. On the side of the wicked (relativistic, always relative), sub-inspector Syril Karn Kyle SollerPursuing Andor almost as fiercely as Imperial security agent Dedra Meero, Denise Gough.
After the first three episodes, which Gilroy refers to as “the camera,” the vision of ‘Andor’ begins to become seriously orchestrated in the fourth episode, where boundaries are expanded and even more plot and complication are embraced. What’s not so orchestral is the music provided by Nicholas Britell (‘Succession’, ‘The Underground Railroad’), an exercise in electronic hypnosis that can take some dance drag. Every creative direction points in the same direction: the creation of that (true) new hope.