ANDOR Gets a New Trailer, August Release Date, and Part 2 Is Shooting This Fall
The anticipated Star Wars series Andor, which serves as a prequel story to the film Rogue One, has dropped a new trailer today at Star Wars Celebration. Along with the trailer, it was announced that part one of the series will be released on Disney+ on August 31st, with a two-episode launch. Part two of the series, which will lead right up to the events of Rogue One, will begin production this fall.
The series stars Diego Luna as Cassian Andor. The new trailer shows the darker, grittier side of the Star Wars universe and offers a first look at Stellan Skarsgård’s rebel leader and Genevieve O’Reilly’s Mon Mothma.
Andor is set five years before the events of Rogue One, “and it tracks how and why Cassian joined the rebellion as the Empire aggressively expands its reach across the galaxy. Forest Whitaker is reprising his performance from Rogue One as Clone Wars veteran and radical insurgent Saw Gerrera, and O’Reilly is returning as Mon Mothma, one of the founders of the Rebel Alliance.”
Tony Gilroy, who co-wrote the Rogue One screenplay and was the uncredited director on reshoots for the film, created the 12-episode series, and he has described it as “a narrative that reaches across a vast ensemble,” which includes Skarsgård (Thor), Adria Arjona (Morbius), Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), Denise Gough (Under the Banner of Heaven) and Kyle Soller (Poldark). The directors include Toby Haynes (Black Mirror: USS Callister), Benjamin Caron (The Crown) and Susanna White (Bleak House).
Check out the awesome trailer below, and get ready to watch the first two episodes of Andor on August 31st.
via: Variety