Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), returns to finish the story of how he became one of the Rebel Alliance’s key players in Disney Plus’ Andor.
Disney Plus released the show’s first teaser trailer, which is set to a remixed version of Steve Earle’s “The Revolution Starts Now,” and poster on Monday.
The series is a prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which told the story of Andor and the band of rebels who stole the plans to the Empire’s planet-killing weapon, the Death Star. Those plans later allowed Luke Skywalker to know exactly where to fire the critical shot that took that weapon down in the original Star Wars film, released in 1977. Over the course of the series’ two seasons, Andor evolves from a disinterested, cynical nobody from an outlying planet into one of the Rebellion's most important heroes.
“One of the great thrills of making Andor is the scale of the story and the number of characters we’re able to meet -- ordinary people, Imperial overlords, passionate revolutionaries. They are real people making epic decisions, all of them staring down questions with terrifying consequences. Cassian’s journey is the soul and spine of our story, but it’s the choir that makes the show. I’m so excited for audiences to see where we go in season two,” said creator and executive producer Tony Gilroy in a statement.
Season one of Andor debuted in September 2022 and went on to become one of Star Wars’ most critically acclaimed TV series.
Besides Luna, Andor also stars Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’Reilly, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Faye Marsay, Varada Sethu, Elizabeth Dulau and Alan Tudyk with Ben Mendelsohn and Forest Whitaker. The series was created by Gilroy, who also serves as an executive producer along with Kathleen Kennedy, Sanne Wohlenberg, Luna, Luke Hull and John Gilroy.
Tony Gilroy wrote the first three episodes, with Beau Willimon writing episodes 4-6, Dan Gilroy penning episodes 7-9 and Tom Bissell putting pen to paper for episodes 10-12. The directors for the series are Ariel Kleiman (Eps. 1-6), Janus Metz (Eps. 7-9) and Alonso Ruizpalacios (Eps. 10-12).
Andor premieres April 22 on Disney Plus with 12 episodes broken down into four chapters of three episodes each. One chapter will premiere each week over a four-week span.
