Featurette for Lucasfilm's STAR WARS Series ANDOR Offers Character and Story Details
We’re only a week away from the upcoming Star Wars series Andor coming to Disney+, and I honestly never thought I’d actually be excited about it, but I totally am! This series looks like it could actually deliver a great Star Wars story.
We’ve got a new featurette to share with you today that features interview with the cast and crew discussing the characters and story in the series, which is set five years before the events of Rogue One.
The series stars Diego Luna as Cassian Andor and the story tracks how and why Cassian joined the rebellion as the Empire aggressively expands its reach across the galaxy. The series is described as a "refugee story" that sees people trying to escape from a fully powered Empire. Luna previously shared, “It's the journey of a migrant. That feeling of having to move is behind this story, very profoundly and very strong. That shapes you as a person. It defines you in many ways, and what you are willing to do."
The who series will cover the full five years leading up to the events of Rogue One. 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 Stellan Skarsgard (Thor), Adria Arjona (Morbius), Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), Denise Gough (Under the Banner of Heaven) and Kyle Soller (Poldark). Then there’s Forest Whitaker who will reprise his role as Saw Gerrera, Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma, and Forest Whitaker is also reprising his role as Clone Wars veteran and radical insurgent Saw Gerrera.
When talking about the series, Luna said:
"I think it's perfect. It's lovely. It's almost like four different movies [via four three-episode blocks]. Three episodes will be a very strong block to explore a year, another year, and then another year and another year. There is also space in between each block where time passes, so we're allowed to evolve and transform. But I think that's part of season one, too.”
"Yeah, so when you saw episode three, you probably went, 'I think I know the characters, the tone, and what the series is going to be about,' but then we take you where episode four goes. And you were like, 'What!? Where are we going? What's going on? What happened?' So I think that's something that this long format gives us. It's the flexibility to literally transform and go somewhere else and meet other characters and find other planets and discover new things. It's a fantastic format, and it's very ambitious. It's complete freedom. You have room, you have space, you have time, and that is lovely when you have something to say."
Part one of the series will be released on Disney+ on September 21st, with a three-episode launch.