“Andor” wrapped up its first season in November, and followers cannot wait till the second (and closing) installment of the Star Wars collection premieres someday in 2024. And whereas it is a thriller what’s going to occur to the present’s titular hero, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), and different revolt members like Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly), Bix (Adria Arjona), and Luthen (Stellan Skårsgard), there are some fairly massive issues we all know in regards to the new season.
The present serves as a prequel to 2016’s “Rogue One,” which first introduces followers to Cassian. Mon Mothma additionally seems in that movie, so viewers know that each characters will survive the second season. Season one lined one 12 months in Cassian’s life, whereas season two will cowl the subsequent 4 years earlier than “Rogue One.” Luna defined that a part of the rationale for that call is they need him to look in regards to the age he did once they filmed “Rogue One.” In a Dec. 19 interview with Collider, he defined of the thought of giving every year its personal season, “It’s not potential, however what? It’s not due to us. It’s due to Rogue One. I imply, I additionally must look shut sufficient to ‘Rogue One.’ Can you think about me in 10 years pretending to be the [character] I used to be 20 years in the past? Just unattainable. I imply, sadly there is no machines or CGI that may do it.”
Back in November, O’Reilly instructed POPSUGAR that her character, Mon Mothma, like Cassian, is on a journey to grow to be the individual viewers met in “Rogue One.” She stated on season two, “I’m hopeful that it will likely be actually gritty and dextrous and dramatic and simply thrilling. I’m excited to return to this, [which is] not at all times the case.”
Tony Gilroy, who serves because the collection’s creator, instructed Empire again in May that season two can have an identical construction to the primary season, the place each three episodes function a person narrative arc. “The scale of the present is so large,” he stated. He defined of the primary season, “Directors work in blocks of three episodes, so we did 4 blocks [in Season 1] of three episodes every.”
According to Gilroy, the construction of season two flowed instantly out of that call. “We regarded and stated, ‘Wow, it would be actually attention-grabbing if we come again, and we use every block to characterize a 12 months. We’ll transfer a 12 months nearer with every block,'” he instructed Empire. “From a story viewpoint, it is actually thrilling to have the ability to work on one thing the place you do a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, after which leap a 12 months.”
Luna posted on Instagram on Dec. 12 that the brand new season is filming now, and rumor has it that new episodes will hit screens in 2024. Read on for what we all know thus far about “Andor” season two.