{"id":626824,"date":"2023-04-07T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/just-make-an-andor-movie-you-cowards\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T20:25:00","slug":"just-make-an-andor-movie-you-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/just-make-an-andor-movie-you-cowards\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Make an\u00a0‘Andor’ Movie, You Cowards!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s been a<\/span> long time since anyone has gone to a theater to see a\u00a0Star Wars<\/a> movie. Three years, in fact. It was\u00a0Star Wars: Episode IX\u2014The Rise of Skywalker<\/em><\/a>, in late 2019. It was before\u00a0Covid-19<\/a> closed theaters, before Disney CEO Bob Iger\u00a0slowed the pace<\/a> of the Lucasfilm cinematic universe. A lot has changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The biggest shift, of course, is that fans started watching a lot of their Star Wars content on Disney+. During early pandemic lockdowns,\u00a0The Mandalorian<\/em><\/a> became a balm for many. So did\u00a0The Book of Boba Fett<\/em> and\u00a0Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/em>, with perhaps slightly less culture-shifting impact. It\u2019s no surprise, then, that out of the three\u2014yes,\u00a0three\u2014new Star Wars features Lucasfilm\u00a0announced Friday<\/a> at Star Wars Celebration in Europe, one of them will be directed by Dave Filoni and will \u201cclose out the interconnected stories told in\u00a0The Mandalorian<\/em>,\u00a0The Book of Boba Fett<\/em>,\u00a0Ahsoka<\/em>, and other Disney+ series.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is surprising is that that list doesn\u2019t explicitly include\u00a0Andor<\/em>. Not because that story would fit with the others, but because\u00a0Andor<\/em><\/a> is the best thing Lucasfilm has made in\u00a0years<\/em>, and I\u2019d rather watch a two-hour tale of Cassian\u2019s revolution against the Empire than two hours of any of those other shows combined. Which brings me to my point: Make an\u00a0Andor<\/em> movie, you cowards!<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s a counterargument to this. I can hear it already: There already is an Andor<\/em> movie,\u00a0Rogue One<\/em>. Yes, the Disney+ series was a spinoff from a film, but so were\u00a0Obi-Wan<\/em>,\u00a0Boba Fett<\/em>, and the others. While it\u2019s true that there isn\u2019t a whole lot of material to be mined in the five-year narrative time frame between\u00a0Andor<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Rogue One<\/em>\u2014and there\u2019s already a second season of\u00a0Andor<\/em> in the works\u2014fans have spent a\u00a0lot<\/em>\u00a0of time following the development of New Republic. And, I dunno, maybe there\u2019s something else these movies could be tapping into. (The alliance of Cassian and Luthen Rael is a movie in itself.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moreover,\u00a0Andor<\/em>\u2019s energy might be what Star Wars needs right now. One of the reasons the show resonated so deeply is that it felt tangible, human. There were no Jedi (that the audience knows of), no long monologues about the Force. Instead, there were real, disenfranchised people fighting tyranny\u2014upheavals on prison colonies and rebellions in the streets. Star Wars has always been about escapism, but it has a moral core, one that\u00a0Andor<\/em>\u00a0has tapped into more effectively than arguably any other installment in the franchise. A film based on the show\u2019s characters may lack lightsabers and pew-pew action, but it could have something more: soul.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to Filoni\u2019s new movie, Lucasfilm announced a new Star Wars from\u00a0Logan<\/em>\u00a0director James Mangold about \u201cthe dawn of the Jedi,\u201d and one from\u00a0Ms. Marvel<\/em>\u00a0director\u00a0Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy<\/a> that will \u201cfeature Daisy Ridley back as\u00a0Rey<\/a> as she builds a new Jedi Order.\u201d That\u2019s \u2026 a lot of Jedi, a lot of woo-woo. Both of these films, particularly Obaid-Chinoy\u2019s, sound promising. But more could be done to fulfill Star Wars\u2019 promise. As\u00a0newly returned Disney CEO<\/a> Iger\u00a0faces off<\/a> against Florida governor Ron DeSantis over what Iger sees as retaliation for the company\u2019s opposition to the so-called Don\u2019t Say Gay bill, maybe a movie about a different kind of rebellion is exactly what the studio needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Angela Watercutter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a long time since anyone has gone to a theater to see a\u00a0Star Wars movie. Three years, in fact. It was\u00a0Star Wars: Episode IX\u2014The Rise of Skywalker, in late 2019. It was before\u00a0Covid-19 closed theaters, before Disney CEO Bob Iger\u00a0slowed the pace of the Lucasfilm cinematic universe. A lot has changed.\u00a0 The biggest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121278,534,685],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-626824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-an-andor","8":"category-financial","9":"category-movie"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}