During the Lucasfilm segment of Disney’s D23 Expo event, the first footage for the highly anticipated second season of Tony Gilroy’S Andor.
In that video it was revealed that Ben Mendelsohn has joined the cast of the series and reprises his role as the villain Orson Krennic.
It was previously rumored that Mendelsohn would be returning to the series and, well… it has been confirmed and it makes perfect sense that he will have a role in the next chapter of the story.
Saw Gerrera is also present in the film (The Forest Whitaker), the security droid K-2SO (Alan Tudyk), and Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly).
Diego Luna said at the event: “Rogue One It changed my life. I’ve been living with Cassian Andor for 10 years now. To be able to complete this story that starts with Season 1 and goes all the way through Rogue One, it’s great.
“In the first season, we go through a single year. He lives under the rule of the empire. He has had a taste of courage,” he told attendees.
“This second part of the story will follow Cassian over a period of four years, as he grows up and becomes the rebel hero we met in Rogue One.
“This season, the stakes are higher, the enemies are more organized, and the clock is ticking. The threat of the Empire grows, Andor has a higher purpose, freedom, and a brighter future.”
The reveal was included in a behind-the-scenes highlights reel from the making of season two, which teased a bigger, more intense story to come.
According to the writer and showrunner Tony Gilroynext season could be the most important story I’ve ever told.
He previously said: “I’ve had a lot of fun over the years, but I don’t know if I’ve ever done anything as significant as this 24 hours of storytelling that we’re having now.”
Gilroy concluded by saying, “I don’t know if it’s just because it’s the thing I’m on, but I don’t think so. I’ve never had the chance to work on a bigger scale before, so it’s a pretty big deal for me.”
The second season will conclude the series and take us through the years of 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 directly into the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
He previously teased the end of the series, saying that the creative team knows “exactly where we’re going” and that it was “creatively powerful” to know where the story is going.
He said, “If you know the ending, it’s really helpful. We know exactly where we’re going. You know what you have to convey emotionally and what the story has to do. It’s a decision born of survival, but it’s good for us creatively.”
Gilroy explained how the story will unfold in the final season of the series, saying, “When we come back later, it will literally be 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 it’ll be another four or five days, and then we’ll jump a year, and it’ll be another four or five days.”
He added: “I don’t know if anyone has ever done this before because I don’t know if anyone has had the opportunity to do this before. We’re in a very new era of doing 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 is new.”
Every three episodes in Andor Season two will span a year’s worth of story, and when previously speaking about what we can expect from the series, he explained that it explores the stress, pain and triumphs of the growing rebellion: “Think about the revolution and think about it from the point of view of Luthen Rael, the point of view of Saw Gerrera, and the point of view of Mon Mothma.”
He continued: “They started out as the 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 be big. Think of any restaurant you knew that started out as a coffee shop, think of any startup company.
“What’s going on? Things get really complicated. If your capital and trade are paranoia, secrecy, betrayal and heavy consequences, expanding your business is really difficult.”
Gilroy continued, “Then you think about it from the imperial side and they’re getting very, very close to a very important energy project. People may have heard of it. It’s an energy project.
“I guess it’s not a surprise, but I think you’ll see the wear and tear, you’ll see all the stress, all the pain and all the triumph of the 20 or 30 people that we’re bringing forward, with Cassian at the center.
“You’re going to see these people stumble into a very complicated mess and story that we’re going to be paying attention to.”
He added: “We’ll work on the calendar. There are events on our calendar and you know what they are, some of them, and they’re very important, and we’ll stage them.”
I can’t wait for this series to come out!
by Joey Fear
Source: Geek Tyrant
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