Andor creator Tony Gilroy has explained why Mon Mothma's iconic anti-Empire speech naming Emperor Palpatine as being behind the Ghorman Massacre was changed from its initial iteration in Star Wars Rebels.
"We are hijacking canon," Tony Gilroy told Entertainment Weekly of the decision to deviate from a set-in-stone event on the Star Wars timeline. "In canon, she's rescued by the Gold Squadron and the speech that they gave in the cartoon, which was a canonical show, [is on that ship]. And [writer Dan Gilroy is] like, 'Do I have to stick to this fucking speech?'"
