Andor Creator Explains Why Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine Do Not Appear On-Screen in the Show

With Andor Season 2 present successful afloat swing, creator Tony Gilroy has revealed wherefore Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine bash not look on-screen astatine immoderate constituent successful the series.

Andor leads straight into the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which does diagnostic Darth Vader. The extremity of Rogue One, wherever Vader assaults the Rebel bid vessel portion connected the hunt for the Death Star schematics, successful crook leads straight into the events of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.

So, Vader is operating during the events of Andor, but helium does not amusement up. Why? In an interrogation with Rolling Stone, Gilroy said a Vader cameo was ne'er connected the cards, due to the fact that sci-fi's top villain “doesn’t person a batch to say.”

“No, that was ne'er connected my agenda,” Gilroy explained. “Writing for Darth Vader is truly limiting. I’ve done it. He doesn’t person a batch to say.”

That is, of course, a motion to Vader's quality successful Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Gilroy co-wrote the screenplay). In the movie, Vader says conscionable a fistful of lines of dialog to Orson Krennic, who helium yet Force chokes into submission. Vader does not accidental a connection during his signature corridor country astatine the extremity of the film.

So that’s Darth Vader’s lack explained, but what astir The Emperor? Again, he’s operating during the events of Andor, and is referenced, but does not look on-screen.

“He was excessively large a portion of nutrient for maine to introduce,” Gilroy explained. “It was excessively dense a lift. I thought astir it astatine 1 point, but it was excessively dense a lift.”

Gilroy went connected to marque the constituent that successful the Star Wars universe, during the events of Andor astatine least, hardly anyone knows astir the Jedi oregon the Sith. The Emperor is referenced, but much similar an off-screen person oregon president. And so, the likes of the Emperor and Darth Vader successful afloat connected Sith mode are “not successful the culture.”

“One of the fascinating things that I realized erstwhile I started the amusement successful the precise opening is however galore billions of beings are successful the galaxy,” Gilroy said.

“Nobody knows astir the Jedi, cipher knows astir the Sith. It’s conscionable a tiny percent of radical that person immoderate conception of it astatine all. It’s not successful the culture. And I retrieve being truly amazed arsenic it was explained. I thought it was thing that everyone knew about, but no, it’s precise secretive and small.”

Even without specified heavy-hitters, Andor has proven a assemblage pleaser. In fact, Season 2 has officially made Andor the astir critically acclaimed live-action Star Wars movie oregon TV amusement ever, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

IGN’s ain reappraisal for the archetypal 3 episodes of Andor Season 2 gave the amusement an fantabulous 8/10, highlighting that Andor “continues to beryllium the astir absorbing Star Wars has been successful years.”

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