ANDOR Creator Tony Gilroy Explains the Unique Way Season 2 Will Play Out
The story for Andor Season 2 is going to play out in a unique way. It will conclude the series and take us through the years of Cassian Andor's journey as a spy for The Rebellion and how he tracked down the secret of The Death Star's construction. The story leads right up to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Season 2 will take place over the course of four years, which will see the Rebellion expand in some big ways, and with that expansion, there are going to be issues and hurdles that come up along the way. In a recent interview with Deadline, Andor creator Tony Gilory explained how the story will play out in the final season of the series saying:
“When we come back later, it’ll be literally like a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And then, we’ll jump a year, and then it’ll be, like, four or five days, and then we’ll jump a year, and then there’ll be another four or five days, and then we jump a year, and be another four or five days. I don’t know whether anybody ever did it before because I don’t know if anybody had a chance to do it before. We’re in the brand-new era of making these shows. These shows are all new. This whole idea of how to make these shows, and the economic scale of them is new, and everything’s new.”
Every three episodes in Andor Season 2 will cover one year's worth of story, and when previously talking about what we can expect from the series, he explains that it explores the stresses, heartbreak, and triumphs of the growing rebellion:
"Think about the revolution, and think about it from Luthen Rael's point of view, and Saw Gerrera's point of view, and Mon Mothma's point of view. They've started off as original gangsters in this thing, and it's underground, and it's secret, and it's small, and it's isolated, and contained. In four years, it's going to go big. Think about any restaurant that you knew that started off as a coffee shop, think about any startup company. What happens? Things get very complicated. If your stock and trade of your business is paranoia, and secrecy, and betrayal, and heavy consequences, expanding your business is really difficult."
Gilroy went on to say:
"Then think about it from the Imperial side and they are getting very, very close to a very important energy project. People may have heard of it. It's an energy project. I guess that's not a surprise, but I think you'll see the wear and tear, you'll see all the stresses, all the heartbreak, and all the triumph of the 20 or 30 people that we're carrying forward, with Cassian at the center. You'll see those people stumble forward into a very complicated bit of chaos and history that we will pay attention to.
"We're gonna work the calendar. There are events on our calendar and you know what they are, some of them, and they're very important, and we will play those out." I imagine some of those things deal with the Death Star, but there’s also a lot of other stuff going on as the Rebellion is looking to fight against the rise of the Empire.
The first season of Andor was incredibly impressive. It was unlike anything that we’ve seen from the Star Wars franchise before, and I hope we see more of it after Season 2 of Andor. The series is set to premiere sometime in August 2024.