Andrew Todd
NZ-Canadian screenwriter, filmmaker, consultant, and recovering film/games critic (RIP BMD). Half of Freak Development. NZ Writers Guild board member. Made GHOST SHARK 2; working on SO LONELY I COULD DIE and others. Inspired by actual events.
- Just watched the ANDOR series finale, which bizarrely came out 9 years prior to the penultimate episode. But hey, that show always did things different.
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- Saw Gerrera in ROGUE ONE is such a sad, sad character after seeing what can only be called his decline (ideologically and chemically) through ANDOR. "Save the Rebellion! Save the dream!" - a dream he has grown largely disconnected from, and knows it
Emily knows what she speaks of - she‘s a writer on Shogun and like all of us has sacrificed years to projects we can never talk about. So many accidents and fuckups led to Gilroy getting such license to go all out on an I’m 64 years old and most of my best work never got made fuck it opportunity.- When do we have a talk tho about how differently structured Gilroy’s writer’s room was, how the cast & crew all talk about how unusually collaborative and open he is, and the laterally genius move of naming Luke Hull the Production Designer as his primary cowriter, & got him an exec producer credit?
- Would LOVE to know more
- People say Andor is so dark and adult but it still has fun shit like characters named Semaj, assassins racing each other to kill politicians, rad starships, droids giving death stares, jokes about Fox News & cereal, & this goofy little alien bitch going off in support of fascism like Lindsay Graham
- It's also just out-and-out funny a lot of the time - just drier, more absurdist kind of funny than the rest of SW. Syril is the funniest character in the whole franchise for my money.
- If all you Americans could write/call your congresspeople to protest the ban on AI regulation that's in the current budget bill, that'd be appreciated, considering it's very much something that will affect people around the world who *can't* call those congresspeople
