{"id":573837,"date":"2023-05-10T07:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T04:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/showrunner-tony-gilroy-ceases-producing-services-on-andor-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T07:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T04:29:24","slug":"showrunner-tony-gilroy-ceases-producing-services-on-andor-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/showrunner-tony-gilroy-ceases-producing-services-on-andor-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"#Showrunner Tony Gilroy Ceases Producing Services on \u2018Andor\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Andor\u00a0<\/em>creator Tony Gilroy has told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> that he is no longer performing any non-writing duties for Andor<\/em>, the Disney+ Star Wars show he created and runs. In a statement, Gilroy responded to criticism he received from a fellow Writers Guild member for performing such services during the WGA\u2019s strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios and streamers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n The critique of the\u00a0Andor\u00a0<\/em>creator and executive-producer came after it was\u00a0reported<\/a> on Friday\u00a0that Gilroy, whose script<\/a>s for season two of the\u00a0Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0series<\/a> were completed, was still contributing producing services including casting and music-related duties. Gilroy says he was not present on the show\u2019s set and hasn\u2019t been since the strike began May 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI discontinued\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>writing and writing-related work on\u00a0Andor\u00a0<\/em>prior to midnight, May 1.\u00a0After being briefed on the Saturday showrunner meeting, I informed Chris Keyser at the WGA on Sunday morning that I would also be ceasing\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>non-writing producing functions,\u201d Gilroy said in a statement to\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. When reached by phone late Tuesday, Keyser \u2014 the co-chair of the WGA\u2019s negotiating committee \u2014 confirmed his conversation with Gilroy. Lucasfilm, which produces Andor<\/em>, declined to comment.<\/p>\n

\n Writer Abdullah Saeed, whose credits include creating the Onyx Collective comedy\u00a0Deli Boys\u00a0<\/em>for Hulu, singled out Gilroy in a\u00a0post<\/a> on his Instagram account May 8. \u201cThis is scabbing. There\u2019s no way a writer\/producer can \u2018finish\u2019 writing and begin solely producing. And if the scripts truly are finished, let\u2019s see \u2019em. If there\u2019s one word different in the finished product, kick Tony Gilroy out of the WGA. One of the biggest writers in Hollywood could stand with his union and halt production on his hit show, thereby by forcing a major studio to consider WGA demands a little harder. Instead, he has chosen to be a SCAB! We all want Andor s2, but not at the cost of fairness to writers.\u00a0#wgastrong<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n On Friday afternoon,\u00a0THR\u00a0<\/em>reported\u00a0that studios including Disney had sent letters to showrunners demanding that they continue their contractually obligated non-writing services amid the strike. The WGA called the studios\u2019 request \u201cunion-busting tactics\u201d and said that such services as cutting for time, small changes to dialogue or narration made before or during production and \u201cchanges in technical or stage directions\u201d \u2014 none of which Gilroy was performing, he says \u2014 are duties guild members are prohibited from doing during the strike.<\/p>\n

\n The following day, during a WGA\u00a0meeting\u00a0with showrunners, many spoke out about the challenges that come with attempting to separate writing and producing. Shawn Ryan (The Night Agent, SWAT<\/em>), for example,\u00a0shared\u00a0a story about his decision to step away from producing services during the WGA strike of 2007-08 because it presented a \u201cnever-ending series of ethical dilemmas that could never be resolved before stating that it was cleaner to step away from producing,\u201d according to one member in attendance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n