After a golden era of top-notch content for the small screen, is streaming now dead?
That was at least the message Walt Disney managers wanted to impart on Andor’s acclaimed creator Tony Gilroy when he began filming the past twelve episodes for the 126 million Disney+ subscribers.
Disney did not respond to a Fortune request for comment.
Ever since Rian Johnson’s hugely divisive The Last Jedi eight years ago, Lucasfilm has struggled to win fans of George Lucas’ epic Star Wars trilogy back to his rich universe. A feature film hasn’t hit theaters since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, the disappointing conclusion to Rey Palpatine’s saga.
