Diego Luna Offers ANDOR Season 2 Update and He Only Has a Week Left of Shooting
Andor star Diego Luna recently shared an update on the highly anticipated second season, and it’s actually a pretty surprising one! The actor revealed that he only about a week left of shooting!
Luna talked to Variety on the red carpet at the Emmy’s and when asked about the production, he said: "I have seven days [left to shoot]." Luna is heading back to London today to continue filming the Star Wars show.
So, the series is really close to wrapping up production, which is exciting! The series was originally supposed to be released sometime this year but it may have been pumped to 2025.
Creator Tony Gilroy previously teased the end of the series, sharing that the creative team knows “exactly where we’re going” and that it’s been “creatively potent” to know where the story is going. He said: “If you know your ending, it really helps. We know exactly where we’re going. You know what you have to deliver emotionally and what the story has to do. It’s a decision borne of survival, but it’s good for us creatively.”
The second season will conclude the series and take us through the years of Diego Luna’s 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.
Gilroy 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.”
He added: "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 such a great show and I can’t wait to see how Season 2 plays out!