Fans received a promising update on Andor Season 2 during today’s Star Wars Celebration as creator Tony Gilroy divulged its upcoming release date window for Disney+ next year and showed a new teaser trailer (that, unfortunately, was exclusive to fans at the show).
“We started shooting in November. We’re halfway [through production],” creator Tony Gilroy announced before revealing the Andor Season 2 release date window. “We will finish shooting in August, a year on post, and we’ll come out in the following August.”
Gilroy also teased the end of the series, stating that the team knows “exactly where we’re going” and that it’s been “creatively potent” to know where they are headed.
Disney+’s Andor features Diego Luna as he reprises his role of Cassian Andor. Set five years before the events of Rogue One; the series follows the adventures of the titular hero rebel spy during the formative years of the Rebellion.
The Star Wars prequel series also stars franchise alums Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera, Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma, and Alan Tudyk as Cassian’s droid sidekick K-2SO. Additional cast also includes Star Wars newcomers Denise Gough, Stellan Skarsgård, Kyle Soller, and Adria Arjona.
Andor is executive produced by showrunner Gilroy, who previously directed the reshoots for Rogue One. Gilroy was originally expected to direct three episodes but was forced to give up the position to Black Mirror‘s Toby Haynes due to pandemic-related travel issues.
The 2016 film was a critical and box-office hit with a gross of over $1 billion worldwide. It starred Luna, Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker, and Ben Mendelsohn.