{"id":254309,"date":"2025-07-10T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254309\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:52:09","slug":"rogue-one-director-reveals-1-andor-character-he-wouldve-wanted-in-movie-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254309\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue One Director Reveals 1 Andor Character He Would\u2019ve Wanted in Movie – Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andor<\/a><\/strong> creator Tony Gilroy<\/strong> disclosed which character from the show he would have used in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/a><\/strong> if he had developed the project from scratch. Notably, Andor serves as a prequel to Rogue One, which came out in 2016. Gilroy boarded the cinematic project late in production, penned additional scenes, and worked as the second-unit director under director Gareth Edwards.<\/p>\n

Tony Gilroy wishes Andor\u2019s Vel were in Rogue
One: A Star Wars Story<\/p>\n

Gilroy revealed in a recent interview, published in the new issue of the Empire magazine<\/a>, that he would have loved to have Faye Marsay\u2019s Vel Sartha in Rogue One. \u201cI\u2019d want Vel there for sure,\u201d he stated, before proceeding to speculate on the potential dynamic between Vel and Felicity Jones\u2019 Jyn Erso, the protagonist of the movie. \u201cMy God, think of Vel\u2019s take on Jyn Erso! I\u2019m sure she\u2019d have some very choice things to say about her,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cJyn would light up all of Vel\u2019s irritation.\u201d (via ComicBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Star Wars prequel trilogy visual effects supervisor John Knoll initially pitched Rogue One as a Star Wars: Underworld episode in the early 2000s. The show was never produced, but Knoll pitched the project one more time after Disney acquired Lucasfilm. Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli) initially joined the project as scriptwriter. However, he left, and Chris Weitz (About a Boy) was eventually brought in to work on the script. Initially, Edwards envisioned an ending for the movie in which the main characters survived. However, the producers ultimately chose to give the film its current darker but hopeful ending. <\/p>\n

In 2016, Gilroy joined the production, which then underwent reshoots. He also had a significant role to play in the filming of the current ending of the movie and the post-production, even though Edwards remained attached to the project.<\/p>\n

Notably, Andor aired for two seasons on Disney+ between September 21, 2022, and May 13, 2025. In Andor, Vel is part of the resistance against the Galactic Empire and a cousin of Genevieve O\u2019Reilly\u2019s Mon Mothma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andor creator Tony Gilroy disclosed which character from the show he would have used in Rogue One: A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[10726,77,3785,37021,3943,69808,10728,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-254309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-andor","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-entertainment-news","11":"tag-lucasfilm","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-rogue-one-a-star-wars-story","14":"tag-tony-gilroy","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114830688024842060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}