The creator of Andor Tony Gilroy explains why Ghorman massacre had to hit hard

When Andor Put your eyes on Ghorman massacre in season 2, the goal was not to take a look at a box Star Wars Lore. It was a question of making the spectators sit in fear, chaos and brutality that fueled rebellion.

In a recent breakdown of the scene for Variety, creator of the series Tony Gilroy He explained that the Gorman plot was not treated as only another chapter of the rebellion, it was the centerpiece.

“We knew we would have invested a lot in Ghorman to build a world, a planet, a city like that, on that staircase, you really have to use it. We knew it would be a fulcrum of the show. It is a fulcrum of Canon.

“In the five years in which I can cure, it is a critical moment in the history of rebellion. Yet it is not very described. There was a mandate and a request to do it, but there was no information on what it was, which is a kind of better thing for us.”

Creative freedom has allowed Gilroy and its team to imagine Gorman as a company fully built, with its own culture and infrastructure. The massacre takes place in Palm Square, a lively and prosperous square built from zero by product designer Luke Hull. Everything here was made to serve the story. Gilroy said:

“It is not only only architecture and construction. He is designing a place for history and for what the directors will be able to do … Luke Hull gives us this surprising small stadium in which to play. It adapts to the aesthetics of what we have already built … this is a one -year project.”

The episode is not based on the show. It is built for immersion. The camera does not crash from violence, there is no loss as a result of the consequences and it gives you someone who follows madness with Cassian.

“We knew that the massacre would take place in a square.

For Diego Lunathat rooted brutality is part of what Andor distinguishes from others Star Wars Stories. The action has weight. The characters bleed Sndf die, even something intimate like a handful clash transports months of preparation. Luna explained:

“Only the fight with Syril was two and a half days. We worked on that fight for, I would say months. There were many different choreography that we did before. We all agree on one [version of the scene] That Tony was really happy and that he explained the whole story, that the struggle must tell. “

And when everything meets, Andor does not seem like a space work. It looks like a story or, more precisely, how history will repeat itself.

“Andor’s beauty is that you can become so deep that you may forget you are in this distant galaxy, very distant. You are only in a place that actually exists.”

“This is the strength of that episode, which is a massacre that seems personal, is happening. You are looking at it and you go as, ‘shit, those are people who suffer. Those are people wounded’ you know, that destruction is really happening.”

Andor never wanted Gorman massacre to be a reference, he wanted it to be a calculation. One who does not build only the time sequence of rebellion, but earns it.