The first season of Andor turned out to be one of the best shows (both sci-fi and generally speaking) of last year. Thanks to some pretty great performances and writing, the show wasn’t so much the Rogue One prequel it was initially pitched as and more a look at what rebellion and government systems look like, and how those two things become deeply interconnected—and we’ve gotten a glimpse at what’s due in season two
During the show’s panel at London’s Star Wars Celebration, showrunner Tony Gilroy and several of the show’s writers, along with Diego Luna (Cassian Andor), provided a look at the series’ next and final season for the audience in attendance in London, England. With season one now having set up different rebel factions and the key players in those groups, like Cassian, Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly), and Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård), season two can now show how those groups come together to form the Rebel Alliance. It’s not going to be an easy task for Cassian, since some of those faction leaders, like Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker), don’t exactly get along with the others.
Footage shown at Celebration teased the return of key characters, including Rebel cell members Vel Sartha and Luthen Rael (in and out of his disguise as an antiquities dealer), as well as Syril Karn, who appears to have gone up in the world, and been thrust into a higher class of Imperial citizenship. Scenes also showed Mon Mothma slowly building alliances, trying to bring her disparate senatorial and rebellious worlds together as dissent grows across the galaxy. Several shots showed a protest being policed by Stormtroopers, where violence breaks out with lots of explosions and lots of chaos. But at the heart of it all was footage of Cassian, both skulking through hallways and seemingly coming into his own as a Rebel spy. The trailer concluded with Luthen echoing his comment from season one—“Don’t you want to fight these bastards for real?”—over a shot of Cassian, dressed up in a fancy suit with his hair slicked back, in some kind of fancy bar.
We’ll see how Cassian’s four-year exploits get him to the start of Rogue One when Andor returns on Disney+ in 2024, potentially around August, according to director Tony Gilroy.
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