Andor Season 2’s Final Episodes Set Three Days Earlier than Rogue One

We’ve recognized from the get-go that Andor season 2 can be main into the very starting of Rogue One—bringing to an in depth Cassian’s lens on the beginning of the Insurgent Alliance as we go proper into his last mission. However in response to Tony Gilroy, it’s going to shut it’s story very near that starting.

Talking to Empire about season 2, star Diego Luna and showrunner Tony Gilroy confirmed that the final trio of Andor episodes—with season 2 having a construction the place, not like season one, the 12 episodes are damaged down into 3-episode chapters that can every advance a year further within the Star Wars timeline to the occasions of Rogue One and A New Hope—will probably be set only a few days earlier than Rogue One opens. And with that finish objective in thoughts, star and showrunner like are effectively conscious that Andor has a lot to live up to coming off of its incredible first season.

“The dangers this season will take are very totally different,” Luna informed Empire.

“In each method,” added Gilroy. “Look, man, I’m not attempting to make a profession right here; if something I’m on the downhill aspect of an extended profession. However this is a chance. That is 1,500 pages of probably the most dynamic materials in these folks’s lives to take care of. We bought it proper the primary time, and also you don’t need to let your foot off the fuel.”

And that’s not only for Cassian—we all know how his story concludes, however Andor is now much more than simply the story of its main man. “A few of [the Rebel Alliance’s] core components are secrecy and paranoia and lack of belief and betrayal. So, how tough is it to construct a revolution?” Gilroy teased of season 2’s driving themes. “And what occurs to the unique gangsters, as different folks get entangled?”

We’ll discover out in 2024, when Andor returns to Disney+.

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