Andor Preview Special ft. Diego Luna and Tony Gilroy

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Andor is the latest Star Wars show to hit Disney+, with the first three episodes (of its 12-episode first season) dropping on the service on Wednesday September 21st, but it's a very different beast than, say, The Mandalorian or The Book Of Boba Fett. Instead, Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna's return to the flawed but noble character who, in many ways, was the heart of 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the most ambitious new slab of Star Wars to date. And in this preview podcast, Ben Travis talks to Luna and Gilroy, separately, about their ambitions for the character and for the show, and a host of other things. It's a preview podcast, not a spoiler special, so don't worry, you can listen to this and remain unspoiled for Andor, although we can't say the same for Rogue One. Oops. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to another very special preview episode of the
0:19.5	Empire Podcast.
0:21.0	This one is dedicated to the latest Star Wars series to launch on Disney Plus and or.
0:27.0	They show the chronicles the further or should I say former adventures of Cassian and
0:32.2	or the Rogist one and yes I know that Rogist isn't a word I think at least from 2016
0:39.2	Rogue One.
0:40.6	That film introduced us to Diego Luna's Freedom Fighter and then brought his story to
0:44.9	a fairly definitive close or so it seemed because Tony Gilroy a creditate screenwriter on
0:51.0	Rogue One and also someone who was fairly extensively involved in the film's additional
0:56.6	shooting.
0:57.6	Let's go with that shall we?
0:59.2	Has found a way to bring him back by delving deep into his past and if the very notion
1:05.1	of a Star Wars prequel fills you with dread when Fear not folks this is no attack of the
1:10.4	clones 5 stars says in the magazine in fact it's a very different proposition from anything
1:16.3	we've seen on the big or small screens as far as Star Wars is concerned anyway.
1:21.8	As you'll see in the first 3 episodes of this 12 episode first season there's one more
1:27.1	season to come after this launches on Wednesday September 21st and as with Obi-Wan Kenobi
1:33.7	we thought it would be a simply capital idea to bring you a couple of interviews that
1:38.1	might just wet the old whistle for the return of Cassian and or so we sent Ben Travis
1:44.7	along to interrogate Diego Luna and Tony Gilroy for that very purpose.
1:50.4	Now this is a preview podcast it's not a spoiler podcast so don't worry even though Ben
1:55.1	had seen the first 4 episodes at the time of these interviews he tipped those round plot
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