STAR WARS: ANDOR Creator Tony Gilroy Confirms Season 2 Directing Team
I’m still enjoying the hell out of Star Wars: Andor, and we have three episodes left of the first season! Creator and showrunner of the Lucasfilm series, Tony Gilroy, previously confirmed that the second and final season of the series is planned and mapped out, and now they have locked in the directing team that will tackle it!
While speaking with Collider, Gilroy revealed the directors that are coming in to helm the second half of Cassian Andor’s journey. Those directors include Ariel Kleiman (Yellowjackets, The Resort), Janus Metz (All the Old Knives), and Alonso Ruizpalacios (Outer Range, True Detective). They will each helm their own block of episodes.
The Andor series explores “a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor’s journey to discover the difference he can make. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue where Cassian will embark on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.”
The Star Wars series will cover the full five years leading up to the events of Rogue One, and it’s 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.
The first season focuses on the first year and Season 2 will cover years two through five. Gilroy previously explained that the scale of the series is just going to get bigger as it goes on saying:
"Oh my God, we haven't even started yet. We're just going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. Why? Because I have 1,400 pages of script to deal with and we want to have a really complicated and interconnected story. I don't think I'll do this more than once, it's a one time, five year opportunity. So we're going to go all in, and I'm going to try to explore every single aspect of the revolution from the ground up – what happens to ordinary people when there's a life-changing war coming, when there's a rebellion coming. You've only seen us getting started. We're just getting started."
I’m looking forward to seeing how Season 1 of Andor comes to an end and am excited to see how it gets bigger and bigger over the course of Season 2! That next season covers a period of four years, with time-jumps happening every three episodes. Filming reportedly kicks off this month and will be released sometime in 2024.