Andor creator Tony Gilroy won’t be making season 1 scripts available so AI doesn’t steal anything off of them.
Andor season 1, which aired in 2022, feels like it’s from a whole different, slightly better time when AI, while certainly still a threat, wasn’t quite as prominent yet. Back then, creator Tony Gilroy teased that he was planning on releasing the scripts for season 1 for fans to read, but so far, they haven’t appeared online.
With season 2 around the corner, Collider asked Gilroy if we might still see them one day, but the answer was a firm no.
“I wanted to do it. We put it together. It’s really cool. I’ve seen it, I loved it,” Gilroy told the outlet.
Gilroy didn’t try to hide why the scripts will never see the light of day, or at least the glow of the world wide web.
“AI is the reason we’re not. In the end, it would be 1,500 pages that came directly off this desk,” Gilroy says, describing AI as “too much of an X-ray”.
As sad as we are to not be able to read the scripts, it’s hard not to agree with Gilroy.
“Why help the fucking robots anymore than you can? So, it was an ego thing. It was vanity that makes you want to do it, and the downside is real. So, vanity loses,” the writer concluded.
AI has been on the rise for a while now. We’ve seen posters created with AI, even whole films, but the results have been less than ideal. Films such as The Brutalist have used AI to tweak the end product, but have faced severe backlash for doing so, too.
Andor season 2 will premiere on Disney+ in April and the season will lead up to the events of Rogue One. In the same Collider interview, Gilroy describes protagonist Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna, as a “Star Wars Jesus” and promises season 2 holds a solid emotional punch.
Andor season 1 was a huge hit with audiences and critics alike so there’s ample pressure on the new season to uphold that same level of quality, but the trailer promises another epic Star Wars series.
Andor season 2 premieres on 23rd April on Disney+.
