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Gizmodo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Andor' Wanted Its Massacre to Do More Than Just Fill a ‘Star Wars' Lore Gap
The most impactful thing about the Ghorman Massacre in Andor season two is how it paints a true picture of what rebellion stood for by putting the audience in the shoes of the people assembled to defend their planet. In a grim yet hopeful episode, the Empire's control of the narrative begins to fall apart, showcasing the brutal violence meted out by Imperial forces against those who resist Palpatine's rule. Series creator Tony Gilroy and star Diego Luna gave more context about expounding on a key part of Star Wars history in a recent scene breakdown video for Variety. 'We knew we were going to be investing very heavily in Ghorman to build a world, a planet, a city like that, at that scale, you have to really use it. We knew that it would be a centerpiece of the show. It's a centerpiece in canon,' Gilroy stated. 'In the five years that I get to curate, it's a critical moment in the history of the rebellion. And yet it's very un-described. There was a mandate and a demand to do it, but there was no information about what it was, which is kind of the best thing for us.' He continued. 'The most challenging part for me was to try to calibrate the timing of everything and to try to calibrate where everybody is. When you do these kinds of scenes where you have lots of characters that you're trying to follow, trying to follow quite a few stories there, and this is almost real time what's happening.' Cassian is the audience's way in to witness how the Empire seizes a peaceful protest and incites the violence. 'We knew that the massacre would be taking place in a town square,' Gilroy explained. 'We also knew that we didn't want to do anything that looked or felt like anything that we had done before. We also wanted a prosperous planet. We wanted a place that was well off, politically connected, not an easy place for the empire to take down.' Production designer Luke Hull built a fully realized set for Palmo square, where the Ghor resisted the Empire's presence. 'It's not even just the architecture and the construction,' Gilroy shared about his collaboration with Hull. 'It's designing a place for the story and for what the directors are going to be able to make. Without really detailed instruction or mandate, Luke Hull gives us this absolutely astonishing little stadium to play in. He fits it into the aesthetic of what we've already built, and the cafe, and then the brocante shops that are around it, and the hotel. Before we ever got to the writer's room, we had a very good handle on Ghorman. The prep is three and a half, four months, and does not include the prep that Luke and I did before it even started the room. So I mean, this is a year-long project.' Even down to the anticipated face-off between Cassian and Syril, which unpacked the personal stakes between the show's diametrically opposed foes, Luna shared, 'Just the fight with Syril was two days and a half. We worked on that fight for, I would say, months. There was many different choreographies we did before. We all agreed on one [version of the scene] that Tony was really happy about and that explained the whole story, that the fight has to tell.' Luna continued. 'The beauty of Andor is that you can get so deep that you might forget you're in this galaxy far, far away. You are just in a place that actually exists.' Luna touched on the cyclical nature of how history mirrors art. 'That's the strength of that episode, that it's a massacre that feels like personal, it's happening. You're looking at it, and you go like, 'Shit, those are people suffering. Those are people being hurt' You know, that destruction is actually happening.'
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Smokey Robinson Under Criminal Rape Investigation After Former Housekeepers File Police Report
The post Smokey Robinson Under Criminal Rape Investigation After Former Housekeepers File Police Report appeared first on Consequence. Smokey Robinson is now facing a criminal rape investigation after his former housekeepers filed a police report with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, reports Billboard. The investigation follows a civil lawsuit filed by the same four housekeepers in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, May 6th. In that complaint, the Jane Does accused the 85-year-old singer of repeated sexual assault occurring between 2007 and 2024. Popular Posts First Look at Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale in Madden Movie Drummer Chris Adler Opens Up on What Led to Firing from Lamb of God Morris, Alligator in Happy Gilmore, Dead at Over 80 Years Old Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000's New Piano Project: "Complete and Utter Crap" Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars Billy Strings Announces Fall 2025 US Tour Dates Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars
The post Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars appeared first on Consequence. [Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Andor, Season 2 Episode 8, 'Who Are You?'] The second season of Andor, taking place over the four years leading up to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has spent a great deal of time focusing on the previously obscure planet of Ghorman, a peaceful world where spiderwebs become the galaxy's most popular fabrics. Over the first half of the season, the Disney+ series has made a point of establishing Ghorman as a richly defined world with its own history, traditions, and language — specifically the language Ghor, a fully-developed brand-new fictional tongue spoken by Ghorman residents on screen. 'Language is such a part of any culture, of any country, or in the case of Star Wars, of any planet,' David Acord tells Consequence. 'So if you have this well-fleshed-out language that characters are speaking on screen, and doing a great job of seeming very fluent and very believable, and then you've got this world built around that culture, it solidifies what you're trying to achieve, which is this wholly unique culture here.' Acord and Margit Pfeiffer were both supervising sound editors on Andor Season 2 in different capacities: Pfeiffer focusing on any human dialogue element you hear in the show, while Acord — as Pfeiffer puts it — 'gets to have all the fun designing the spaceships and aliens, and then mixes it perfectly with all the music.' In short, they were both responsible for what you hear as you watch Andor — including bringing the Ghor dialogue to the screen. Marina Tyndall, Diego Luna's dialect coach going back to Rogue One, created the Ghor language — 'a fictional language with its own rules and sounds and grammar and pronunciations,' Pfeiffer says. She also confirms that creator Tony Gilroy based a fair amount of Ghorman on French culture, 'from the beautiful set design to the sounds of the language, to the beautiful fabrics and tapestries and the whole production design centered around it. So the language followed.' This means, she continues, that while 'we tried to put in a little bit of Italian grammar, the phonetics [of Ghor] are purely French. A French person could read the lines on a sheet of paper, even though they wouldn't make any sense in French — but it's the French melodic tone that we wanted to keep.' While the syntax might be familiar to French speakers, the vocabulary, Pfeiffer says, 'is all made-up words. It follows strict rules — a noun is a noun, a verb is a verb — but the words themselves are made up.' The limits of the Ghor vocabulary might technically be determined by the scripts, and the words that needed inventing to replicate the writers' dialogue. However, that's still an awful lot of words. Andor (Disney+) 'We recorded hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of lines,' Pfeiffer explains. 'And if you look at the structure of a language, I think you could consider yourself to be somewhat fluent if you know about 2000 words — you can form basic sentences and the most common words.' And then there are more specialized topics, she notes: 'For a rebellion and a massacre, you'll have different words than you'd use to check into a hotel.' Unfortunately for the people of Ghorman, dialogue for all those scenarios was required. For as we learn over the course of the season, the planet isn't just a fashion mecca — the increasingly powerful Empire has figured out that there's a rare mineral just below the surface the Emperor requires. And what the Emperor wants, the Emperor gets by any means necessary. This only accentuates the impact of Ghorman's destruction in Season 2, Episode 8, 'Who Are You?,' Acord says. 'It's important that we establish that there's this rich culture on this planet that the fascist Imperial bad guys have decided is less important than the mineral rights underneath the surface. It builds the tension and the stress that you feel for these people.' Popular Posts Drummer Chris Adler Opens Up on What Led to Firing from Lamb of God Stephen King's The Long Walk Movie Gets Long-Awaited Trailer: Watch Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars Metallica Perform "Enter Sandman" at Virginia Tech Stadium 25 Years After It Became School Tradition: Watch Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000's New Piano Project: "Complete and Utter Crap" Nicolas Cage Says He Is "Mistaken" for Nick Cave Almost Every Day Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Anemone, Daniel Day-Lewis' Comeback Film, Gets October Release
The post Anemone, Daniel Day-Lewis' Comeback Film, Gets October Release appeared first on Consequence. Focus Features has set an October 2025 release for Anemone, which will mark Daniel Day-Lewis' first on-screen performance since 2017. Daniel Day-Lewis co-wrote the film with his son, Ronan Day-Lewis, who is making his directorial debut. The script 'explores family bonds, specifically those involving fathers, sons and brothers.' Anemone will receive a limited release on October 3rd before expanding wide on October 10th. Popular Posts Drummer Chris Adler Opens Up on What Led to Firing from Lamb of God Stephen King's The Long Walk Movie Gets Long-Awaited Trailer: Watch Jazz Pianist Matthew Shipp Derides André 3000's New Piano Project: "Complete and Utter Crap" Say It in Ghor: How Andor Brought a Brand New Language to Star Wars Metallica Perform "Enter Sandman" at Virginia Tech Stadium 25 Years After It Became School Tradition: Watch Nicolas Cage Says He Is "Mistaken" for Nick Cave Almost Every Day Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
Geek Feed
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Feed
Andor: What Does Ghor Sound Like to Actual French People?
Last week's arc on Andor had introduced audiences to the Ghormans, and nobody was expecting them to actually have their own made-up language in the form of Ghor. The language was completely fabricated for the series, and was made to sound like a mix of French and German, and while native English speakers thought it just sounded like French—people who actually spoke the language got off guard by it as well. Based on this thread on Twitter (that I actually started), there were some people nice enough to give their idea as to what Ghor in Andor sounded like to them, being French speakers. One reply said: When me and my wife heard the first meeting, we both stared at each other and said "these guys are clearly french" — V.R. 🔻🐢 (@mrvenni) May 1, 2025 Another reply said, 'I'm French. At the beginning i was thinking it was German but didn t recognise any word and then i thought it was Romanche (Swiss langage… I thought it was Italian too but neither sounds French to me.' Another wrote, ' Why does he talk my language but i can't get a damn thing?' Probably the simplest description would be that the Ghor language sounded like Simlish to them (i.e., the gibberish used in The Sims games). What's interesting is that officially, Ghor was made to sound French as to be a tribute to actual French revolutionaries from history. Even the Andor actors themselves were all French-speaking, and they were even said to sometimes speak Ghor even when the cameras weren't rolling. Fans are expecting a huge massacre for the Ghormans soon, but it looks like Star Wars showrunner Tony Gilroy isn't making this made up race go out without a bang.
