During a recent interview to discuss the season finale of Willow, Solo: A Star Wars Story co-writer Jon Kasdan has heaped praise on the recent Disney+ Star Wars series Andor.
AVC: There’s obviously the George Lucas connection between Star Wars and Willow, but having worked on Star Wars yourself you have that connection too. Is that part of why you felt you were the person to bring Willow back?
JK: One of the challenges of those properties is always like, well, so many of the things that you would love to do with those stories have been done and gone. And we’ve seen, you know, every kind of environment in Star Wars. And then Andor came out. I think part of the genius of Andor for me is that Tony [Gilroy] made a discovery about it that wouldn’t have even occurred to me, which is that the undiscovered country of Star Wars was this maturity, and was the kind of storytelling maturity that it had never seen before. And then instead of trying to create a new, bigger action sequence or a planet that looked different from any other planet, he was going for a sophistication in narrative and in emotion that no one had ever attempted here before. And that’s, for me, why it’s the most important piece of Star Wars to come along in a long time. This is a different kind of thing, but, you know, if you’re not burdened with any of those things there’s so much freedom to take it where you want to go.
You can read the interview in full here.
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