Freaking finally. We had an entire trilogy with zero direction or guidelines on what they wanted to accomplish, and got three very cobbled together messes that sort of kind of might make a story if you squint long enough. Then Solo, which I think would have done well if not released right after the worst received Star Wars when everyone was tired of it. Endless TV shows that had predictable “safe” plotlines to make investors happy while driving away audiences filled with “fan moments” that made it feel empty.
Rogue One and Andor are my only things I’ve enjoyed recently, and even then from what I’ve read/seen they constantly had to fight her to make the story they wanted to make. (And turns out they were the best ones)
Rogue One and Andor are my only things I’ve enjoyed recently, and even then from what I’ve read/seen they constantly had to fight her to make the story they wanted to make. (And turns out they were the best ones)
“When we started challenging Kathy, Kathy just kept saying yes,” Gilroy recalled. “‘Oh, I’m going to put the first scene in a brothel.’ ‘Okay.’ ‘I’m going to have them kill two cops.’ ‘Okay.’ ‘We want the production designer from Chernobyl.‘ ‘Okay, good idea.’ She backed our play and got everything that we were doing.”
And she was the one that wanted Tony Gilroy to do it in the first place, he didn’t go to her with the show idea, she went to him.
Freaking finally. We had an entire trilogy with zero direction or guidelines on what they wanted to accomplish, and got three very cobbled together messes that sort of kind of might make a story if you squint long enough. Then Solo, which I think would have done well if not released right after the worst received Star Wars when everyone was tired of it. Endless TV shows that had predictable “safe” plotlines to make investors happy while driving away audiences filled with “fan moments” that made it feel empty.
Rogue One and Andor are my only things I’ve enjoyed recently, and even then from what I’ve read/seen they constantly had to fight her to make the story they wanted to make. (And turns out they were the best ones)
Everything I’ve read has suggested the exact opposite, like this bit from an interview with Tony Gilroy.
And she was the one that wanted Tony Gilroy to do it in the first place, he didn’t go to her with the show idea, she went to him.