Andor and Severance‘s Beau Willimon on the Joys of Collaboration

In an interrogation with Variety, writer Beau Willimon discussed the fan-favorite properties he’s presently a portion of: he’s an enforcement shaper connected Apple TV+’s Severance and wrote episodes for some seasons of Andor.

In the chat with the commercialized helium likened penning connected Star Wars to “being a league instrumentalist connected someone’s album.” His collaboration with Andor creator Tony Gilroy began connected the Willimon-created Netflix bid House of Cards, with Gilroy coming aboard arsenic a consulting producer.

“When helium was processing Andor, helium asked if I wanted to constitute a fewer episodes and I thought helium was joking due to the fact that I grew up with and emotion Star Wars but I’m not an aficionado,” Willimon said. “He said, ‘the little you know, the amended due to the fact that I privation to archer a quality communicative and a grown-up story.'”

Willimon continued to picture the six-week play he, Gilroy, and Tony Gilroy’s member Dan Gilroy spent breaking the communicative for Andor. “I didn’t person to carnivore immoderate of the load of what a showrunner usually has to woody with. All I had to bash for the archetypal clip successful my beingness was relation arsenic a writer who was delivering scripts to my person Tony Gilroy. As agelong arsenic helium liked them, I was good.”

About the existent play of Lucasfilm’s deed series, helium added, “I’m precise arrogant of the 2nd season.”

The writer besides had successful manus successful helping soma retired the satellite of Severance for the Apple TV+ show’s 2nd season. It wasn’t thing helium usually does but helium took the occupation arsenic an enforcement shaper to supply other help.

“I came successful to assistance connected the accumulation broadside of it, with the writers,” shared Willimon. “It was an bonzer acquisition due to the fact that determination is thing similar this show. I americium truly funny successful doing projects wherever I don’t afloat cognize however to bash it. With Severance, it was this beautifully built satellite and code and I challenged myself to assistance that squad bring the 2nd play to fruition. I was successful work of the communicative similar anyone else.”

He continued to picture however the experiences of Andor and Severance to “facilitate idiosyncratic else’s vision” person fixed him a caller emotion of producing. “Sometimes I person a spot of region and position that tin beryllium helpful, oregon it tin purely facilitate connected a applicable level. I don’t person to carnivore the load of this being my baby, I tin simply assistance idiosyncratic rise this child.”

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