Learn the Script to One of many Greatest Episodes of ‘Andor’ and Expertise Greatness

One of many few uncommon points with Andor being nearly as good as it’s is that we’re not getting more of it, in any format—however one which particularly stings is that we got here so near with the ability to take a look at the scripts behind the smash-hit Star Wars sequence. We have been on the verge of greatness, as a sure Imperial director would’ve put it, in 2023 when Tony Gilroy and Lucasfilm introduced that season one’s scripts could be printed on-line, just for them to by no means arrive. Gilroy gave us an incredibly valid reason earlier this yr—to keep away from the scripts being fed into generative AI fashions—dashing our hopes that we’d ever equally see the scripts for the then-upcoming season 2 launched both.

However at the least on that entrance, there’s a tiny glimmer of hope.

As a part of its For Your Consideration marketing campaign effort within the upcoming TV awards season (which, after all, consists of Andor and its 14 Emmy nominations), Disney’s official FYC website has been up to date to incorporate a post-final manufacturing script for Andor season 2 episode 9, “Welcome to the Insurrection”, by Dan Gilroy. The episode, itself nominated within the Excellent Writing For A Drama Collection class at subsequent month’s 77th Emmys, climaxes the third act of Andor season 2, and sees Cassian help Mon Mothma’s escape from Coruscant after she delivers a damning speech within the Imperial Senate over Palpatine’s function in the Ghorman Massacre.

Regardless that we’ve had loads of alternative to observe and revisit the episode itself, studying the script presents some fascinating perception into the inventive course of behind Andor, and the possibility to see what emotive beats and intent got here from Gilroy’s writing, and what flourished or was tweaked naturally by way of the forged’s efficiency and interpretation of it. It’s additionally only a outstanding studying expertise too, one which captures the strain that may finally sizzle on display, with a stream and pacing that, even when you’re not used to studying a capturing script, glides by with a eager slickness. It’s not shocking that, even amongst an extremely strong crop of scripts to choose from in season 2, that is the one which earned Andor the nomination.

However nearly as good as it’s, it now makes Lucasfilm and Gilroy’s choice to cease the discharge of the remainder of the Andor scripts all of the extra heartbreaking. It will be completely unimaginable that now the present is full to have the ability to both freely peruse and even purchase a espresso desk ebook amassing the 24 scripts in a single place and re-experience the journey from a perspective that we hardly ever get for Star Wars materials. Simply one other factor to blame generative AI for, for now at the least.

You may learn the total script to “Welcome to the Insurrection” here.

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