exmarx posted:

nice to see him shout out babylon berlin in that interview

Mel Brooks posted:

“I’d learned one very simple trick: Say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot.

After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out”… You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.”

Jerkface posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/ypvgo5/andor_episode_10_preview/

1 minute preview of tonights episode, ooo baby gimme dat Kino

Vintersorg posted:

Glad I work from home tomorrow and can watch on my TV and not a computer monitor.

gently caress I am going to be empty in a few weeks when this is all over.

StashAugustine posted:

I'm really sad there's only one more season to look forward to

Parkingtigers posted:

If they had any sense, they would look at S1 being this loving awesome and take each of the “one arc per year” stories of S2 and turn them into a full season each. Another 12 episodes is good, but another 48 would be better.

Jerkface posted:

Bad news for you, thats what it originally was but then Diego Luna and Tony Gilroy realized having to do production of this scope for another decade would kill them. So they cut it down to 3 seasons then 2 seasons.

Isometric Bacon posted:

Season 2 of this show is going to feel so rushed compared to this one. It'll be like half an episode of Obi Wan every three episodes.

Parkingtigers posted:

If they had any sense, they would look at S1 being this loving awesome and take each of the “one arc per year” stories of S2 and turn them into a full season each. Another 12 episodes is good, but another 48 would be better.

Isometric Bacon posted:

Season 2 of this show is going to feel so rushed compared to this one. It'll be like half an episode of Obi Wan every three episodes.

Bloody Pom posted:

Episode drops around 8-9PM my time, this work day can't go quickly enough.

exmarx posted:

nice to see him shout out babylon berlin in that interview

No Mods No Masters posted:

That's all true but I think also, importantly, he must be extremely good at cajoling the people above him into not doing stupid things. While it's plausible they meddled less because andor is such a whatever concept on the surface, given the money being thrown on the screen they must have tried to meddle some

THR posted:

It sounded like you didn’t expect to return to Star Wars. What brought you back?

They tried to do a couple different versions of this show along the way. I wasn’t really interested, but the people that were trying it were feeling a little bit trapped in what we just discussed, this reverence for Star Wars. But they were also kind of inhibited because the economics weren’t really in place for large-scale streaming at that point. The economics to make a show like this, there wasn’t anybody who was going to spend that kind of money on a show. Now, there’s a bunch of aircraft carriers that are floating around; this is becoming a normal thing. (Laughs.)

But along the way, Kathy [Kennedy] sent me one of the pilots that they were thinking about, but had grown cool on, and she asked what I thought. And in some sort of … I don’t know. I had time. I was in some sort of manic thing, and so I just got on it for a couple days. So I wrote this big manifesto for her. “This is what your show should be like. This is what you should never do. This is why this doesn’t work.” So it was a crazy thing, and it was wildly ambitious. And they were like, “Well, that’s really great. Thanks for helping us know what’s wrong, but we could never do this.” Then they tried a couple other things, and when everything had gone cold, there was a moment where, my God, streaming was whoa. Now we can really do it.

So they went back and pulled this old memo, and they were like, “We want to do this now.” They wanted to be that ambitious on this scale, and the timing was right for me. I had a bunch of other things fall apart. I was getting a little tired of things falling apart, and the one thing that they definitely have is an audience. So it wasn’t an overnight thing that you tiptoe into. It takes a long time. Everybody tiptoes forward, but that’s how it came to be.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

I get the impression that Disney doesn't know where Star Wars should go and is just seeing what sticks.

Farm Frenzy posted:

So this actually IS disney's answer to the LOTR show but their brand guidelines prevent them from pointing out that they just put more time and money in than the cheap poo poo they were making before

2nd Amendment posted:

There is always plenty to play around with in Star Wars. Mando S1 eas a nice return to Spaghetti Westerns meets Kurasowa. Andor is a nice return to the prestige films of the '70s.

It's not a hard formula: pick an old genre and put it in space.

Jerkface posted:

Theres an alternate universe where the adventure of the week andor is currently streaming, and every episode you get some scene that's basically:

K2SO: I've got a bad fe-
Andor: Don't say it, K2
K2SO: ...
Andor: ...
K2SO: feeling about this.
Andor: K2!!

2nd Amendment posted:

There is always plenty to play around with in Star Wars. Mando S1 eas a nice return to Spaghetti Westerns meets Kurasowa. Andor is a nice return to the prestige films of the '70s.

It's not a hard formula: pick an old genre and put it in space.

PunkBoy posted:

We need an Andor themed version of "It's Wednesday, my dudes."

Sash! posted:

Palpatine definitely got a month named after him. Palpatober.

Lobok posted:

So did Vader. Imperial March.

Bloody Pom posted:

I would kill for a film noir series set in the universe.

Love Rat posted:

I'm waiting for my founding of the Republic Macross-style love triangle romance with hotshot pilots and catchy idol pop songs.

Edit: plus: lots of making out and loving.

Alan Smithee posted:

theflyingexecutive posted:

My friend came over today to watch all of Andor so far annnnnd has committed us to watching the new episode at 3am. I think he liked it.

Rougey posted:

So the episodes usually drop a little before at 6pm and here I am 'ing like I haven't done in years 'cause they're a few mins late.