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Inspired By Donald Trump

posted 2 years ago by Rorikon (16407)
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https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star-wars-donald-trump-andor.html

The writer behind political thrillers like Michael Clayton and the Bourne trilogy has “written a great, scurrilous [take] on the Trumpian world,” according to Fiona Shaw, who is playing Maarva in the series. She adds “Our world is exploding in different places right now, people’s rights are disappearing, and Andor reflects that. [In the show] the Empire is taking over, and it feels like the same thing is happening in reality, too.”

Disney is clearly on board with Tony Gilroy’s vision for Andor, as the show has already been confirmed for a second season. The first season will cover Cassian Andor’s first year as a revolutionary and the second season will cover the next four years leading up to the events of Rogue One. In addition to Diego Luna, Andor will star Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgard, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Fiona Shaw, Forest Whitaker, Anton Lesser, Robert Emms, David Hayman, Alex Ferns, and Clemens Schick. If you’re looking forward to Andor and its Donald Trump-inspired political environment, then you don’t have long to wait. The series will be hitting Disney+ on September 21 with a three-episode premiere. Subsequent episodes will be released weekly until November 23.

[–] Satan2016 (23383) 2 years ago

Short Empire article Aug 2. Feature article is in print magazine.

Andor Is Star Wars’ ‘Scurrilous Take On The Trumpian World,’ Says Fiona Shaw – Exclusive Image
https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/andor-star-wars-take-trumpian-world-fiona-shaw-exclusive/

The result is something with considerable contemporary resonance. “Tony has written a great, scurrilous [take] on the Trumpian world,” says Fiona Shaw, who plays Maarva in the series. “Our world is exploding in different places right now, people’s rights are disappearing, and Andor reflects that. [In the show] the Empire is taking over, and it feels like the same thing is happening in reality, too.” Set in the five years running up to Rogue One, the series will expand upon Luna’s not exactly clean-cut hero (Cassian Andor began that film by shooting his own informant), and the efforts undertaken by the rising rebels to fight back against Palpatine’s regime. “I was impressed by Tony’s social-realist intentions,” Shaw continues. “He’s created a whole new morality. It’s very deep and humane – there is grief, mourning, hope, fear. It’s not just primary colours here.”

[–] SandyR (7362) 2 years ago

Wow! So original! So daring! Because making fun of working class people who see through the democrats' bullshit is going out on such a limb! Because every single fucking Hollywood production doesn't already do this.

BUT...

The people who continue to pay for this kind of shit are primarily the ones to blame. If Hollywood didn't make money off this deranged crap, they'll stop making it.

[–] whynotwriteme (7127) 2 years ago

Yeah. This series is more crap to keep the serfs complacent with the lie that they are on the side of "the good guys" while the established Leftist cabal sticks it to them, dry and smiling.

[–] SandyR (7362) 2 years ago

It's funny how convinced the brainwashed are that they're correct. I've never seen anything like it. Then again, I never lived in the Soviet Union, so I guess I'm not used to a government trying so hard to manipulate its population.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8304) 2 years ago

Agreed on your final paragraph.

I have a friend who, despite many misgivings with Disney and the way they've handled Star Wars, keeps going back and every time they put out something new. He just sent me an article earlier about this show, seeming to find it promising.

He's like a battered wife who keeps going back to her husband.

[–] javie (2203) 2 years ago

I wonder how he never managed to kill us, so the use by dates are a good thing.

[–] Corbell (8249) 2 years ago

Well, that's undermining my already tepid interest in this show.

[–] moviefanatic505 (6000) 2 years ago

Then don't watch it. A rather simple yet obscure solution.

[–] SweetTooth43 (1788) 2 years ago

Typical liberal whack job. Trying to connect everything back to Trump.

[–] Corbell (8249) 2 years ago

A likely outcome. I didn't watch Kenobi. I didn't watch Bobba Fett, Bad Batch, CLone wars, ect.

Took a lot of work to drive me away, but they managed.

[–] TheArgentinian (6452) 2 years ago

Good. Fluffy entertainment is on the way out.

[–] papamihel (1578) 2 years ago

It's interesting how one side in American politics constantly seem to be in need to invent and make up all the evils they accuse their opponents of: from hate crime hoaxes to fictional worlds with villains doing all the things they believe their "enemies" are capable of (but for some unexplainable reason don't do in real life).