Andor isn’t simply top-tier Star Wars storytelling, it’s hands-down among the finest TV exhibits of the last decade thus far. Followers have been patiently ready for information of its season 2 launch, and Disney has lastly confirmed the Rogue One prequel collection will return in April 2025.
The announcement got here after the Disney+ app by accident revealed the season 2 debut on April 22, 2025 by way of an in-app advert. Arriving two and a half years after season 1 wrapped up, the subsequent slate of episodes about reluctant resistance fighters attempting to carry down the Empire leads instantly into the occasions that begin Star Wars: Rogue One. Showrunner Tony Gilroy beforehand confirmed that season 2’s 12 episode arc can be stuffed with time jumps, with every part masking a span of some days earlier than leaping one other 12 months ahead.
Whereas Gilroy is writing the primary three episodes of the present’s remaining season, he’ll be joined once more by Beau Willimon (Home of Playing cards), Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler), and Tom Bissell, the novelist and essayist who’s additionally written for a number of video video games, together with The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Gears of Battle 5. Andor star Diego Luna beforehand stated the tip of present would make Rogue One really feel like a “completely different” film, presumably in a great way.
The Mandalorian bounce began Star Wars’ streaming period on Disney+, and there have been loads of first rate to good exhibits within the years since. Nonetheless, Andor arguably stands head and shoulders above them, at the very least when it comes to the script, performing, character growth, and world-building. It’s a disgrace that we’re solely getting another season, however in the long run, it’s good to see creatives allowed to comply with via on a particular imaginative and prescient and storyline with out the necessity to hold increasing it and padding it out to juice subscription numbers.
And thus far, exterior of Andor’s April return, 2025 is trying fairly empty in any other case in terms of Star Wars. Skeleton Crew arrives this December and the Mandalorian & Grogu film isn’t till 2026, with Ahsoka season 2 seemingly not set to reach earlier than then both. Hopefully, that encourages everybody to offer Andor it’s due within the meantime.
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