Tony Gilroy Breaks Down ANDOR Season 2’s Final Moment and What Might Lure Him Back to STAR WARS
The Andor Season 2 finale lands with a quiet, emotional punch that fans are still dissecting. The series closes by circling directly into the opening of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but it holds one last unexpected moment.
Bix Caleen is shown on Mina Rau, walking through a stretch of crops with Cassian Andor’s child in her arms. She doesn’t know what he accomplished or how he died on Scarif, yet viewers immediately wondered whether she somehow sensed his fate.
Because the show brushes up against the idea of the Force and establishes Bix as someone who believes in it, speculation took off fast. Some fans were convinced her final look toward the horizon hinted at something deeper.
Speaking with GamesRadar+ about those theories, Tony Gilroy welcomed the conversation while clarifying what was actually intended. He explained:
"You have to be careful about this, because you don't want to rob somebody else's experience. It wasn't my intention. I don't know how information would travel. I would imagine, at some point, she would find out what had happened. I don't know how she would intuit that he had passed away.
"Maybe she's feeling something. Maybe that's a ritual, that she goes out there every night and says something to him. I'm not sure, but it wasn't my intention that she knew.”
Originally, Andor was conceived as a five season saga. That changed early in development, compressing the final four years of Cassian’s life into just twelve episodes.
It’s a tight sprint to the events of Rogue One, but the final image of Bix and the child instantly sparked another question about the future of Star Wars storytelling. Could another film or series eventually explore what becomes of Cassian’s son or daughter?
Gilroy is open to the idea of these characters continuing without him, though he is fully aware of what can happen when a creative handoff goes wrong.
"As you know, I have no control over anything. Every single thing that's in there, I own nothing. It's a really interesting part of the business. I guess I would feel great if it was great.
"I've seen it done before with things that I've been part of, where it's been a total corruption of everything that you were trying to do, and the whole thing's violated. So if it's great, fantastic. If it sucks, then I'll probably hate it more than anybody else."
When asked what might convince him to return to Star Wars, Gilroy said he has reached a point in life where he is choosing projects with acute care. At 69, he wants to invest his remaining creative time in the work that fires him up.
He is not looking for limitless resources or control. What he does miss, though, is making television in London. "London would be the bigger draw than Star Wars. It's crazy that's true!"
With Rogue One still praised as the strongest modern Star Wars film and Andor widely regarded as one of the franchise’s best Disney+ series, Gilroy’s influence on this galaxy is undeniable.