Andor’s initial plan would have brought back a major star of Star Wars for a cameo
“Star Wars” could be looking at the next major cinematographic event on the horizon, but some of us have still not left the last Adventure linked to the space that has captivated us on the small screen. It only takes only a few months to season 2 of “Andor”, undoubtedly the high -level brand of the whole franchise, brought the series acclaimed to an epic and large conclusion. Some fans may have assumed that there was nothing left to learn and that there are no stones left to be discovered now. Fortunately, these fans would be wrong. Like, “Dedra Meero finding herself on the hot seat and being stuck by the finger of director Orson Krennic” – levels of evil. Let’s just say that, in an alternative universe, those who look forward to a Comée Palpatine Emperor in “Andor” would have been very happy.
We know that “Andor” was originally designed as a series intended to extend over five complete seasons, but what we did not know exactly how the narration potential fell on the edge of the road once the Creator Tony Gilroy and his creative team readjusted their approach. In a recent episode of the Podcast Script Apart (via Total Film), Gilroy’s brother and writer, Dan Gilroy, joined as a guest to talk about all things “Andor”. Naturally, the conversation turned to what the Gilroy brothers would have done if their initial plans for a five -year show really mentioned. According to Dan, this could have led one of the greatest nasty cameos of any production of “Star Wars” to date:
“What would we have explored? Bravo, I think, the progress of it.”
And would probably have called upon the Emperor Palpatine, but would it have been so effective?
One of the most pleasant thoughts of thought by looking at “Andor” was to imagine which other characters in the vast cannon of the franchise were doing at this precise moment. Jar Jar Binks, for example, could have been practicing somewhere on Coruscant during all these sequences involving Senator Mon Mothma (Geneviève O’Reilly) in secret with the rebellious brain Luthen Raal (Stellan Skarsgård). It is hilarious to imagine that the Cook and the Jedi Allied Jedi Dexter Jettster doing his thing in this 1950s dinner of “Attack of the Clones”. But throughout the series (and especially in season 2), a character has been deposited and alluded to more than any other invisible presence: the Emperor Palpatine of Ian McDiARMID.
This has proven to be one of the most effective choices of the whole season, giving the authoritarian despot an additional boost of mystique by simply showing the reactions it causes in other more anchored figures. He was the one who draws the strings from the “energy project” of the death strings, the fascist increase in “security” across the galaxy after rebellious robbery on Aldhani in season 1, and that ultimately responsible for the Ghorman massacre. Many viewers had the hope of a real appearance of The Big Bad towards the subsequent stages of the second season, especially when a large part of the action on Coruscant took place in the same Senate room where a certain Green Color Jedi and the new ingenious Dark Sidious denounced it in a royal battle for ages in “Revenge of the Sith”.
But would a real cameo in the flesh underestimate all this prudent masonry? I am of two spirits on this subject: on the one hand, I appreciate the level of restraint to avoid the service pandering of fans which afflicted so many other stories of “Star Wars” these days; On the other hand, can you imagine the level of McDiRmid with landscape wick could have done with a script of Tony Gilroy and the regular direction of, well, literally one of the filmmakers involved in the show? It will always be a fascinating scenario anything, but for my part, I am happy with the version of “Andor” that we have received.
The two seasons of “Andor” are currently broadcast on Disney +.
