ROGUE ONE Screenwriter Tony Gilroy To Write and Direct Lucasfilm's Cassian Andor Series

Lucasfilm has hired Rogue One: A Star Wars Story screenwriter Tony Gilroy to work on the Cassian Andor Disney+ series. According to Variety, he will write the pilot episode and also direct multiple episodes of the series.

He will work closely alongside showrunner Stephen Schiff (The Americans). The untitled series will take place prior to the events of Rogue One and has been described as a “spy thriller” set in the early days of the Rebellion against the Empire.

Diego Luna is set to reprise his role and he will be joined by Alan Tudyk who will be back in the role of K-2SO, Andor’s droid sidekick.

Gilroy has also worked on films such as Michael Clayton, Duplicity, and The Bourne Legacy. He was hired by Lucasfilm to help save Rogue One when it was going through all those production and script problems. He played a big role in helping deliver that awesome film that Rogue One ended up being! It’s great to see that he’s back at Lucasfilm working on the Rogue One prequel series.

When previously talking about the work he did on Rogue One, he explained that he thrived in the conditions that he was working in:

“That was my super power. I’ve never been interested in Star Wars, ever. So I had no reverence for it whatsoever. I was unafraid about that. And they were in such a swamp…they were in so much terrible, terrible, trouble that all you could do was improve their position.”

It’ll be interesting to see how this Cassian Andor series ends up turning out. Cassian Andor wasn’t my favorite character in Rogue One, but hopefully they end up telling a great story with him. No official premiere date has been set, but Disney had previously indicated the show would debut in 2021.