Andor and Severance’s Beau Willimon on the Joys of Collaboration

In an interview with Variety, author Beau Willimon mentioned the fan-favorite properties he’s at present part of: he’s an government producer on Apple TV+’s Severance and wrote episodes for each seasons of Andor.

Within the chat with the commerce he likened writing on Star Wars to “being a session musician on somebody’s album.” His collaboration with Andor creator Tony Gilroy started on the Willimon-created Netflix sequence Home of Playing cards, with Gilroy coming aboard as a consulting producer.

“When he was growing Andor, he requested if I wished to jot down just a few episodes and I assumed he was joking as a result of I grew up with and love Star Wars however I’m not an aficionado,” Willimon stated. “He stated, ‘the much less you realize, the higher as a result of I need to inform a human story and a grown-up story.’”

Willimon continued to explain the six-week interval he, Gilroy, and Tony Gilroy’s brother Dan Gilroy spent breaking the story for Andor. “I didn’t must bear any of the burden of what a showrunner normally has to take care of. All I needed to do for the primary time in my life was perform as a author who was delivering scripts to my pal Tony Gilroy. So long as he favored them, I used to be good.”

In regards to the present season of Lucasfilm’s hit sequence, he added, “I’m very happy with the second season.”

The author additionally had in hand in serving to flesh out the world of Severance for the Apple TV+ present’s second season. It wasn’t one thing he normally does however he took the job as an government producer to supply additional assist.

“I got here in to help on the manufacturing facet of it, with the writers,” shared Willimon. “It was a unprecedented expertise as a result of there’s nothing like this present. I’m actually curious about doing initiatives the place I don’t totally know how you can do it. With Severance, it was this superbly constructed world and tone and I challenged myself to assist that workforce convey the second season to fruition. I used to be in service of the story like anybody else.”

He continued to explain how the experiences of Andor and Severance to “facilitate another person’s imaginative and prescient” have given him a brand new love of manufacturing. “Typically I’ve a little bit of distance and perspective that may be useful, or it will probably purely facilitate on a sensible stage. I don’t must bear the burden of this being my child, I can merely assist somebody increase this baby.”

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