STAR WARS: ANDOR Creator Tony Gilroy Talks Season 2 and Cassian's Evolution as a Rebel Leader

The first season of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Andor took us on quite an incredible, thrilling, and intense journey. I couldn’t be happier with how this show turned out. and I can’t wait to see what’s coming in Season 2.

The Andor finale ended with Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor asking Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) to take him into the Rebel fold. In an interview with Fandom, showrunner and creator Tony Gilroy talked about what that means for Andor saying:

“His allegiance to the Rebellion – which means a lot of different things to a lot of different people – his allegiance and his commitment to that will not be in doubt anymore,” said Gilroy. “That’s a blood oath he’s made at the end. So that question is over. But becoming a leader… What do you do with that?”

Gilroy went on to say that the upcoming second season will follow Cassian’s evolution as a Rebel leader while the Alliance begins to come together:

“How are all of these disparate factions going to try to learn to play together and turn into Yavin? [There will be] all of the betrayal with that, all the manipulation of that by the Empire, the spy game, the war games, the personal stuff, while we’re telling a ripping yarn, a big adventure,” added Gilroy. “But it will be about using [Cassian’s] leadership and negotiating his way through the minefield of a revolution that’s trying to come together.”

In a separate interview with Collider, Luna shared his own thoughts on Cassian’s offer to Luthen at the end of the season finale saying:

“There’s a lot of learning to come to find the Cassian we see in Rogue One, and the commitment, the clarity, the belief that he has there. But here, what he’s saying is like, ‘Yeah, take this [life] away from me because it means nothing unless I’m part of what you guys are fighting for.’ And I think it’s that, it’s very deep, and it’s the moment he finds out he can be different [from] what everyone sees in him and what he sees, and what he thought he was. That there is a chance to transform, to evolve, and to become part of a solution.”

Season 2 will bring the Andor series to an end as it will lead right into the events of Rogue One. In regards to that, Gilroy added:

“It’s no secret, I’ve said it a million times, the last episode of our show, we’ll walk [Cassian] across the tarmac into the ship on his way to the Ring of Kafrene to go begin [Rogue One]. So we’re going to have to be there, we’re gonna have to be in Yavin and we’re going to have to tie that in. We’re going to have to send him there with the few bits of breadcrumbs and evidence that make the trip worthwhile and make a risky thing like that worth it to the Rebel Alliance.”

Andor Season 2 is currently in production and expected to premiere in 2024.