Days after it was revealed Andor was persevering with manufacturing on season two throughout the writers strike, its showrunner Tony Gilroy has stopped engaged on the present.
Per the Hollywood Reporter on late Tuesday evening, the multihyphenate behind the Disney+ collection has stopped all features he’d usually do on the present, together with casting and music-related duties, whereas not really being bodily on set. Although its scripts have been mentioned to be accomplished previous to the strike, he was nonetheless doing the chief producer elements of his job. On the time, it was believed that his actions have been introduced on by Disney’s memo to all its showrunners telling them to proceed working because the strike went on.
In his assertion, Gilroy wrote that he “discontinued all writing and writing-related work on Andor previous to midnight, Could 1. After being briefed on the Saturday showrunner assembly, I knowledgeable Chris Keyser on the WGA on Sunday morning that I’d even be ceasing all non-writing producing features.”
After the information that he’d proceed engaged on Andor’s second season, Gilroy was topic to criticism on-line and amongst different Hollywood writers. Keyser, who stands as co-chair for the WGA’s negotiating committee, later corroborated the dialog he and Gilroy shared to THR.
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Andor was one of a handful of high-profile shows whose productions chose to continue as the strike was underway. At time of writing, those other two shows—HBO Max’s Home of the Dragon and Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy—are nonetheless engaged on their respective sophomore seasons. Chatting with the previous, George R.R. Martin just lately mentioned that scripts for Dragon have been locked in previous to Could 1, and having gone by way of “4 or 5 drafts and quite a few rounds of revisions,” can’t be modified at this time limit.
The second season of Andor is predicted to launch in August 2024. And it seems that as soon as once more, bullying works.
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