ANDOR director fought valiantly to stage the first atomic bomb in STAR WARS history, but lost

Andor has become one of the biggest Star Wars projects ever, at least for sure in the last few years, and it hasn’t received much criticism, but there has been a small change that the director of the show Benjamin Caroni revealed that he would like to implement it in a recent interview with Variety. Caron and showrunners Tony Gilroy almost brought to Star Wars the universe’s first atomic bomb in the final episode of Andor, but Disney put the kibosh on the whole ordeal.

The episode revolves around the funeral of Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw), the adoptive mother of the show’s central character, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). As the season opens, Cassian finds himself – and his home planet Ferrix – in the crosshairs of the Empire, and the ensuing oppression for Ferrix’s people radicalises Maarva against the empire.

For her funeral, which becomes a gathering for most of the people of Ferrix, Maarva pre-records a holographic message that it would be the first time anyone has dropped an “f-bomb” in Star Wars history.

At the end of Maarva’s message to Ferrix’s people, he exclaims, “Fight the empire!” But director Benjamin Caron reveals that the Andor the team — including executive producer and showrunner Tony Gilroy — wanted her to say, “Fuck the empire!”

“But Disney wouldn’t let us use it,” Caron told Variety. “So we changed it to ‘fight the empire’. I remember having a phone call with Tony Gilroy saying, ‘Are we going to get away with this?’”

Gilroy urged Disney to allow him to insert the profanity, so much so that he “wrote a legal brief for it,” Gilroy explained to the outlet. “I wrote a memo about it and said, ‘Here’s why I think it’s economically prudent, and here’s why I think it’s good.'”

Despite not being able to drop the first one Star Wars F-bomb, the series was great. You can now watch the entire season on Disney+.