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Tony Gilroy's mentioned a lot of influences on Andor, few if any of which had anything to do with Star Wars. Off the top of my head: * https://en.wikipedia.org

• ahns 1y ago
  To add to this, non-exhaustively, from various other places including reddit: Krennic's meeting on kalkite: * structured like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference * takes place at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus the Aldhani heist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery Ferrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles Vel Sartha: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Dugdale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Dugdale * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolours_Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolours_Price * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction Kleya Marki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan the Dhanis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people#Discrimination_against_the_S%C3%A1mi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people#Discriminatio... escape from Narkina 5: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen_concentration_camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen_concentration_camp * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_uprising * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrba%E2%80%93Wetzler_report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrba%E2%80%93Wetzler_report Rix Road: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporals_killings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporals_killings * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shireen_Abu_Akleh#Funeral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shireen_Abu_Akleh#Funeral Mon Mothma's speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wels#Speech_in_opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wels#Speech_in_opposition Ghormans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance Ghorman massacre: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaa_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaa_massacre * and perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_weavers%27_uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_weavers%27_uprising Obviously the comparisons aren't exact, but it's clear the show had a great many sources of inspiration (or maybe history rhymes as it always has).