Tony Gilroy Says Lucasfilm Might Actually Be Making a Star Wars Horror Project

For arsenic agelong has helium has been bringing Andor to life, Tony Gilroy has championed the bid arsenic 1 that opens the gateway for Star Wars to explore assorted genres it seldom touches connected successful TV and film. And now, according to the antheral himself, the franchise mightiness really beryllium doing that.

Speaking to Business Insider astatine a recent Andor lawsuit successful London up of the 2nd season’s premiere aboriginal this month, Gilroy said responded to a question astir a remark he’d antecedently floated astir Star Wars bid he’d similar to see, including a fearfulness story, saying “They’re doing that. I deliberation they’re doing that. I deliberation that’s successful the works, yeah.”

Speaking to SFX Magazine backmost successful March, Gilroy had antecedently joked that Andor‘s occurrence should pave the mode for a sitcom oregon fearfulness project. “I ever fantasized that the amusement would interruption caller ground, that idiosyncratic would beryllium capable to marque a three-camera sitcom successful Star Wars oregon a fearfulness movie. I deliberation the archetypal happening I said to Kathy [Kennedy] erstwhile she said they wanted to unfastened a line, was, ‘Could you bash a courtroom drama? And wherefore not?’ We’ve worked truly hard connected Andor to marque our lane, and it’s up to different radical present to find different mode to bash it.”

If the fearfulness task does present exist, Gilroy is seemingly not portion of its production, going by his comments astir being perfectly blessed to circular retired his clip connected Star Wars with Andor‘s completion. But if it does hap (a less-than-certain warrant erstwhile it comes to Star Wars successful caller times), astatine slightest the amusement volition person completed its goals to get Star Wars to propulsion the scope and tones of the stories it’s consenting to archer outside of ancillary media.

io9 has reached retired to Disney for remark and clarification connected Gilroy’s remarks, and volition update this station erstwhile and if we perceive back.

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