Shaw: Having written Rogue One, Tony Gilroy dared to excavate the emotional relationships between people. It’s fat and lazy, as Cassian says, and you get an inside view into the kind of corporate structure system - like a workplace environment. The Empire that you meet in A New Hope is not the one that you meet in Andor.

We also see sides of the Empire and the rebellion that we haven’t seen before. Syril Karn is determined to bring Cassian to justice. In one of the first scenes, Cassian shoots one of his friends - for the sake of the rebellion, but he makes a lot of questionable decisions.īuilding off that amazing film, you can invent and investigate these other characters who are sitting in that same gray area, and are all in a process of genesis - of becoming who they think they might want to be, and figuring out what they believe in. Soller: Rogue One had elements of ’70s thriller, action film, but also was really gritty and human. Why do you think it was important to take that approach with this show? This is the most grounded Star Wars effort we’ve ever seen. Here’s a transcript of our conversations, edited together for clarity.

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