Andor

Stellan Skarsgård plays Luthen Rael, and his character is changing Star Wars as we know it.

Andor, which has been released on Disney+, stars Diego Luna in the lead role, alongside Star Wars legend Genevieve O'Reilly, Hollywood actor Stellan ...

It was a genuine gift of a role." Soller said: "Our characters weren't really relying on green screen... I think it can keep expanding because we have many stories to tell." "We are here to tell you this story that you can watch from beginning to end. "And I shouldn't have to be a big thing, but it is a big thing, there's not many throughout the Star Wars universe, so I feel really privileged to be doing that." "We can be big and adventure, we can have very big scope of science-fiction that you expect from Star Wars with action and battles - but then go very intimate and spend quite a long time in the house of a character finding out how he experiences everyday life, and then go into a very dark tone and be very political and spy-ish and go back to the action."

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To stand a chance to win one of three sets, simply answer the question below. Story synopsis: The Andor series will explore a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor's (Diego Luna) journey to discover the difference he can make. 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.

It feels like something out of Blade Runner, as Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) trudges through the streets of Morlana One, with his hood drawn up due to the ...

Every character has a name, even those not yet seen; every location is flush with names and spaces, and it really shows the dedication of the writers to create a fully-actualized story. They are slow-moving fires that burn quietly, lighting kindling along the way, and giving birth to a forest fire of potential. While the premiere plays it close to the chest, the tone and aesthetic of Andor allude to the fact that this series has the potential to become one of the most nuanced, insightful, and smartest Star Wars series to date. Though the slowburn nature of the plot may not be for everyone, especially those who expect characters to go charging into a firefight in every episode, Andor fully flips the script and approaches the story with a focus on character and expansive worldbuilding. Within the first ten minutes of the premiere, [Andor](http://collider.com/tag/andor/) reintroduces a character that captured the heartbroken masses in Rogue One: A Star Stories—and not much has changed. Rogue One and its subsequent tie-in novels and novelizations didn’t provide a lot of information about who Cassian Andor was outside of being six years old when the Empire first impacted his life and a steadfast and morally dubious member of the rebellion.

It's all laser guns and hoverbikes in this gritty, kinetic spy thriller which gives us the backstory to one of Rogue One's heroes.

Such theorising can’t sustain a Star Wars show on its own, which is why it’s such a relief when Andor whips out the laser guns and hoverbikes in episode three. But the underling is Syril Karn (Kyle Soller), who sees the case as his chance to ascend to the rank he believes he deserves. Andor’s earthy wisdom extends to more general observations, too, such as the explicit identification of rampant commercialism as a key component of the malign force that is about to reach tipping point. [Obi-Wan Kenobi](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/series/obi-wan-kenobi--episode-by-episode), has been replaced with something gnarlier. As Andor begins, it’s five years earlier and Cassian – still played by Luna – is merely a thief who likes to liberate Galactic Empire spaceship parts. When word of mouth spreads about a new streaming show, viewers tend to tell each other not how many episodes are in the season, but how many you have to watch before the thing gets good.

Andor is a Star Wars prequel to the prequel Rogue One, but it certainly helps, since the show (like The Mandalorian) takes a look at the Empire and Rebels ...

Some of the Jedi and Inquisitor activity during this period is covered in [Rebels](https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/13/20959862/star-wars-watch-order-disney-plus-movies-shows-chronological-skywalker-saga), the TV miniseries [Obi-Wan Kenobi](https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23180150/obi-wan-kenobi-review), the video game Jedi: Fallen Order, the novel Ahsoka by E.K. [Star Wars](https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/13/20959862/star-wars-watch-order-disney-plus-movies-shows-chronological-skywalker-saga) as kids’ stuff, because, frankly, so much of it is. Andor offers an opportunity to dig deeper into the nuance of the Star Wars dystopia, arguably its most intriguing and relevant facet, and flesh it out for a mass audience. While Ahsoka, Rebels’ Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger, and Fallen Order’s Cal Kestis and Cere Junda all eventually come out of hiding to fight the Empire (to say nothing of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker), the Jedi who made the earliest and most violent contribution to the nascent Rebellion is Ferren Barr, who within a year of the Empire’s birth secretly orchestrates a war between the Imperial Navy and the planet Mon Cala. Though they’re not seen much in the films, Mon Mothma and Organa are the key architects of the Rebellion, connecting isolated pockets of resistance into one formidable whole. [the first season](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/22418649/star-wars-the-bad-batch-review) of the animated series [The Bad Batch](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/23146713/star-wars-bad-batch-season-2-trailer-release-disney-plus-streaming-celebration). In a subplot deleted from Revenge of the Sith, Senators Padmé Amidala, Mon Mothma, and Bail Organa establish the Delegation of 2,000, a political caucus that challenges Palpatine to relinquish his wartime powers once the Separatists are defeated. Andor kicks off at 5 BBY, tracking the formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic (better known as the Rebel Alliance) though bits and pieces of this story have been depicted across other media over the years. [Andor](https://www.polygon.com/23311750/andor-star-wars-diego-luna-interview-preview), the new live-action limited series that premiered on Disney Plus on Wednesday, is pitched as a gritty adult spy drama, the rare mass-marketed entry into the canon to frame Star Wars as the story of a political revolution on a galactic scale. [Clone Wars animated series](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/2020/3/14/21179020/star-wars-clone-wars-rex-episodes-trooper-stories-expanded-universe), Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine spends years orchestrating the conflict that would destabilize the Republic and enable him to seize power. The Imperial Navy demolishes the cloning facility and uses the remaining clone troopers to train a new generation of soldiers recruited the old-fashioned way: by exploiting poverty and fostering jingoism and xenophobic paranoia. The degradation of the Republic into the Empire takes place over the nearly four-year span of the war, and its roots go much deeper than that.

Andor is an American television series created by Tony Gilroy for the streaming service Disney+. While still a part of the universe, Andor will be something ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). [Spoiler](/topic/spoiler)alert, Cassian dies in [Rogue One](/topic/rogue-one), and thus Andor has to be a prequel. The longest-serving monarch, UK Queen Elizabeth II, breathed her last in Balmoral Castle on September 8, aged 96. [Andor](/topic/andor)is an American television series created by Tony Gilroy for the streaming service Disney+. Here we provide a list of things you should remember before watching Andor, lest you have some expectations in mind. [Diego](/topic/diego)played Cassian Andor.

The second episode of Andor begins a short time after the final moments of the premiere, as a young Kassa (Antonio Viña) sets out with his Kenari peers to ...

The second episode of Andor winds down as Luthen gets to experience the joys of public transportation, and that one weird guy that always wants to chit-chat and overshare. His arrival causes new problems for Bix who has to lie to Timm over a cup of caf about why she needs him to open the yard for him. Unaware that he is a wanted man, Cassian heads home to see his mother Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw) who has waited up for him alongside a fretful B2EMO to tell him that the Pre-Mor Authority is looking for a Kenari man. The flashback gives way to nightfall on Ferrix, which sees Cassian ( [Diego Luna](http://collider.com/tag/andor/)) stealthily make his way through the backstreets of the town, while the rest of the cast of characters clocks out of work and closes up shop. On Kenari, the children make their way to the crash site, weapons in hand, as the eldest girl (Malini Raman-Middleton) ventures down to the vessel to investigate. [Andor](http://collider.com/tag/andor/) begins a short time after the final moments of the premiere, as a young Kassa (Antonio Viña) sets out with his Kenari peers to locate the crash site.

Andor is live on Disney Plus today with the first three episodes available to watch, and this being the fourth live action Disney Plus series as more and ...

Given that Rogue One was my favorite of the new Star Wars blockbusters, I’m certainly looking forward to checking this out later today. We already know a whole bunch of series that are coming, but Andor’s success, or I suppose theoretical failure, could alter their plans. I know many will look for audience scores, but it’s so early (only 36 total people have scored it on Rotten Tomatoes) that I’m going to wait and see what that number settles at over time. So, as you can see I’m including the animated series in there, and those have been generally well-received. Here’s how it stacks up compared to the other Disney Plus series we’ve seen out of the Star Wars universe so far: - The Mandalorian Season 1 – 93%

Looking some context as the new Disney Plus series begins? We'll get you up to hyperspeed.

Worried that her true identity as the daughter of Death Star engineer Galen Erso might be discovered, Saw leaves her in a bunker with just a blaster and a knife for protection, promising to return. That makes sense, since Emperor Palpatine is the supreme leader of both, though his alternate identity as Darth Sideous is still a secret to everyone but a handful of his most devout followers. As his apprentice, Darth Vader is the most visible Sith lord within the regime, and he reports only to his master. The other is Senator Mon Mothma, who hasn’t yet given up on the idea of democracy and is trying to change the system from within as a member of the Imperial Senate. The core philosophy of the Sith religion involves harnessing strong emotions like anger and fear into absolute power. Under the leadership of Darth Vader, agents of the Imperial Inquisition hunted down the last remaining Jedi and eliminated them, one by one. At the end of the Clone Wars the Emperor accused the Jedi of treason and activated Order 66, which compelled the clone troopers to execute any Jedi on sight, but that was just the beginning of the Jedi purge. There are isolated groups of insurgents throughout the galaxy, especially in the mid and outer rims, where the Empire has less control. One of them is Senator Bail Organa, who has been keeping tabs on underground rebel activity through a network of intelligence operatives using the code name Fulcrum. As is typical of any totalitarian regime, the Empire has reached its tendrils into every aspect of public life. There are some areas, however, where the Empire wields less power than others. Since then, Imperial forces have been gradually transitioning from peacekeepers to occupiers in the territorial outposts they once promised to protect.

The first three episodes of Andor were dropped all at the same time on Disney+ and you can see why. These first three stories are only “episodes” from a ...

This is also true, to varying degrees, of [The Book of Boba Fett](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-wars-the-book-of-boba-fett-ending-cad-bane-spoilers/) and [Obi-Wan Kenobi](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi-makes-a-new-hope-better/), both which are chock-full of fan service in a way that Andor isn’t. And in a world where people are named “Skywalker” and “Darth Maul,” having a story this grounded is a huge risk. The slow-burn of Andor’s first three episodes rewards the audience with a thrilling escape sequence, which is under-cut with the final flashback. The vast majority of characters in Star Wars are archetypes, which in a sense, makes them the opposite of what literary characters are in novels. He’s a frightening character obsessed with what he perceives to be his higher calling, when really, in the grand scheme of Star Wars, he’s basically the Empire’s version of a gas station shift leader. In the first three episodes of Andor, Luna plays the titular character with a variety of shades. But by the time Cassian and Luthen are riding a speeder bike and blasting their way to safety, you hardly care. [Rogue One: A Star Wars Story](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-diversity-makes-rogue-one-a-better-star-wars-movie/) back in 2016, the feeling of seeing him on screen again in 2022 in [Star Wars: Andor](https://www.denofgeek.com/andor/) can’t be described as nostalgia. Even though its setting is spun-out from complex Star Wars lore, Andor feels like the most anti-nostalgia Star Wars project ever made, and as a result, the most refreshing story from this galaxy in years. Cassian isn’t thrust into a bigger story because the story forces him to, instead, his character is the story. One of them is accidentally killed in the fight, and in order to cover his tracks, Cassian executes the other guy. The present-tense day is primarily confined to two planets: Ferrix and Morlana One, both part of a “corporate sector” of the galaxy guarded by a private security force called Preox-Morlana.

The latest Star Wars series has just landed on Disney Plus. Learn what truly went down here in this Andor episode 3 ending explained.

Fans will need to stay tuned for the entirety of season 1 to see how Cassian Andor grows as the Rebel Alliance starts to form with him. Meanwhile, just as the task force has caught up with Andor and Luthen, the former gains an advantage over Syril and destroys his radio. At this point, Cassian communicates with the droid, giving his location to Syril and his men while compromising Maarva. She comes up with the decision to take the young Andor and hide with him before those affiliated with the ship’s men soon arrive. After the events of episode 1 and 2, Andor’s third installment starts with Kassa exploring the remains of a crashed ship in Kenari as the other members of his tribe have returned to camp. With that promise in mind, there are a lot of things to unpack from this Diego Luna-starrer and what this series holds for the overall franchise.

The Empire arrives on Ferrix in search of Cassian, forcing him to make a last-minute decision to leave everything behind to follow Luthen.

It is a clear testament to what the franchise can do if it gives the keys to the kingdom to storytellers committed to telling good stories and not just the stories they think audiences want to see. But they don’t have a lot of time to get into why Luthen knows who he is, and with the Corpers surrounding the warehouse, Cassian has to make the quick decision to go with Luthen and join what we know to be the early days of the Rebellion. The way these two moments in his life are paralleled seems to pinpoint two moments that harkened periods of loss of place and self for Cassian. In the haste to get to Cassian, Bix finds herself captured by a handful of power-hungry corpers who knocked her out, chained her up, and killed Timm while he was trying to save her. At neither of these junctures in Cassian’s life did he have a choice—staying would have resulted in his death and, even though he agreed to leave with Luthen, he wasn’t left with much of a choice. Is it the gravity of the situation? But before they are able to escape the warehouse, Cassian and Luthen get caught up in a jaw-dropping battle with the Corpers that sees the entire pulley system in the rafters of the warehouse come crashing down like a horror movie. Strong auditory storytelling like this is an art form that has largely been lost in modern filmmaking, but the way Gilroy employs it in juxtaposition to the near-silence of the first five minutes is spectacular storytelling. When the couple tries to explain to him that the Empire will be arriving on Kenari soon, they realize he doesn’t speak Basic, and—instead of finding some way to get him off the ship—Maarva decides the best course of action is to sedate Kassa and take him with them. Back on Ferrix, the Corpers arrive at Maarva’s door with an arrest warrant for Cassian, who is on the other side of town waiting to meet Luthen in an abandoned warehouse. With their arrival, Bix quickly realizes that someone had to have ratted Cassian out—especially since so few people knew about his childhood—and when Timm says the wrong thing, she realizes it was her own romantic paramour who ratted out the man she clearly cares deeply for. As Kassa discovers his reflection (for perhaps the first time) the story shifts briefly to Ferrix as Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård), before jumping back to the past to usher Maarva (Fiona Shaw) and Clem Andor (Gary Beadle) into Kassa’s life.

The new series leans less on lightsaber showdowns and more on the messier interactions between good and evil.

But after so many films and television shows set in the same galaxy far, far away, Andor manages to carve out a new path to understanding that galaxy’s complicated moral stakes. Luna continues to have fantastic screen presence as Cassian, imbuing him with a naivete that is gone by the time Rogue One begins. And the antagonists feel like real-world villains, driven more by ego, workplace politics, and a misguided sense of duty than by a cartoonish pursuit of evil. Still, Andor is not so different from the rest of the franchise that it risks alienating longtime fans. This Star Wars project examines how a person’s needs, fears, and wants can be molded into a taste for revolution—or submission—depending on the (lowercase-f) forces at play. The prequel charts the evolution of Cassian Andor (played by Diego Luna) from an unmoored cynic to the rebel captain viewers met in the 2016 film The violence is grittier, less lightsaber-dependent: The first 10 minutes of the pilot include a character’s accidental death and the cold-blooded murder of another at gunpoint. Unlike the main characters of Disney+’s other Star Wars shows, Cassian is not a stoic loner or an ambitious leader. A show that’s more concerned with portraying life under an oppressive system than with inspiring awe, Andor is an unusually mature entry in the Star Wars franchise. He seemingly [wanted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THKzwzieF40&ab_channel=PuddingAsgard) to build a sci-fi fairy tale, the kind with dichotomies—good versus evil, right versus wrong, light versus dark—that children could easily grasp. It’s a confident and sophisticated drama that asks for—and rewards—a grown-up kind of patience. The series observes a familiar setting from an unfamiliar ground level: Most characters are trying to save their own skin, not the entire galaxy.

The first episode of 'Andor,' the new Disney+ series that brings back Diego Luna's character from 'Rogue One,' is a different sort of prequel.

The first episode takes place in “BBY 5,” meaning five years before the Battle of Yavin — the Rebel/Empire dust-up that results in the destruction of the Death Star at the end of A New Hope. • Will Andor be the first Star Wars show that winds up feeling too cool to show us weird aliens and stuff? The episode also begins what will presumably be a series of flashbacks to Cassian’s childhood on the planet Kenari, focusing on his relationship with the sister he seems to be searching for early on. There’s plenty of intrigue in this first episode, but the most unexpected, and maybe kind of hilarious, aspect of Gilroy’s grounded/serious take on Star Wars is that it also winds up pretty closely resembling Solo, Rogue One’s sibling Star Wars Story that wasn’t nearly as successful, and basically caused the whole spinoff cottage industry to pivot to TV. Andor also feels like a pivot from the Stagecraft sets, Clone Wars expansion, and pandemic-era minimalism of recent Star Wars TV — a bid to show that the franchise can accommodate more subtlety than Boba Fett riding a rancor. It’s equal parts creative experiment and savvy self-marketing of that experiment: Here are some new corners of the galaxy to explore, on our way to a well-documented destination.

Cassian Andor meets with Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and must battle Syril Karn's forces to escape Ferrix. Plus, his backstory on Kenari is further ...

You could even argue that this three-episode arc forms its own prequel to the prequel to the prequel, spending a feature-length amount of time on five or ten minutes’ worth of backstory. They wind up leaving the precious box behind, though Cassian does briefly agitate for bringing it along, which will surely be read by Rael as a testament to his grit and determination — also, one assumes, proof that Cassian is the real prize Rael was hoping to score here. But he’s more interested in the how than the what of this device, specifically how Cassian was able to steal it from the Empire. Ferrix may be a comparatively minor planet, but it quietly serves as a test case for the Rebel Alliance following the “how democracy dies” despair of Revenge of the Sith: People can band together and fight off fascist encroachment. But give some credit (maybe even some Republic credits?) to Andor for making Ferrix’s secondhand nature, with its industrial workers and big scraps of metal everywhere, feel evocative in a way that has eluded some other recent additions to the ever-expanding list of Star Wars planets. It’s too much individual rattling for 14 soldiers to silence, an expanded version of the ceremonial bell-tower figure seen in the previous episode.

Before Disney Plus' new show can figure out who or what is Andor, it has to show us the Dark Side through Syril Karn, the best villain in the Star Wars ...

He’s willing to accept that the people of Cassian’s hometown are all “bluff and bluster,” as his corporate goon tells him, because he misses how it’s solidarity in action. [The Mandalorian](https://www.polygon.com/22193147/when-the-mandalorian-season-3-comes-out) had a good enough twist on Star Wars’ good/evil dichotomy, but [the villain wasn’t what came to define the show](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/2020/12/18/22188476/the-mandalorian-season-2-e8-finale-skywalker-saga) (even when played by [one Giancarlo Esposito](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/2019/12/27/21038233/the-mandalorian-darksaber-black-lightsaber-bo-katan-moff-gideon)). Though he’s not dumb, one gets the sense that he’s so insulated in his position that even explaining the flaws of the system wouldn’t get through to him. And [The Rise of Skywalker’s take](https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/12/18/21024586/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-review-spoiler-free) is... That light tailoring to his uniform is all he can do to make the powers that be conform to him, rather than the other way around. [The Book of Boba Fett](https://www.polygon.com/22903093/book-of-boba-fett-halo-ringworld-space-station) was a bit of a mess, offering up [neither a complicated antihero](https://www.polygon.com/22902664/book-of-boba-fett-episode-5-mandalorian-star-wars) nor a [particularly compelling antagonist](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/22929592/book-of-boba-fett-hero-vs-villain) for our beleaguered hero to square off against. But in the first episodes of Andor, it’s clear Syril believes in the work. Instead, the show is the [nitty gritty](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/23143231/star-wars-andor-trailer-release-date-celebration-disney-plus) of a galaxy far, far away. He takes the utmost pride in his presentation, modifying his uniform to make himself stand out as the shiniest apple in the bunch. It doesn’t take a leap of imagination to guess what feels so prescient about that storyline now, in a time when there’s a lot of change that needs to happen for the world to feel remotely just. [more granular way](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/23056104/star-wars-moral-ambiguity-gray-characters) into the battles between light and dark. Syril is the sort of bootlicker who asked for extra credit to his extra credit.

Episode 1 of “Andor” opens with Cassian (Diego Luna) arriving on Morlana One to look for her sister at a bar. He irks a couple of sentry guards, who then follow ...

But it becomes evident that the real reason Rael is pushing Cassian to give some insight about himself (and not the Starpath) is because he is interested in him and his skills. As Cassian leaves with Rael on his ship in the present, Kassa ships out of Kenari with Maarva and Clem in the past. Bix apparently heads towards Cassian and Rael to warn them, and Salman goes to the town to alert everyone. Bix meets Rael, and they proceed to the place where the exchange is scheduled to happen. In the present, Cassian learns from B2EMO that two of his friends, Jezzi and Femmi, paid him a visit to deliver supper and Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) medicine, while he was off on his mission. Although Bix told Cassian that she hadn’t revealed the fact that he was a Kenari to Timm, the look on Timm’s face essentially proves that he knows that the Pre-Mor is hunting for Cassian. If not, he’s going to inform Bee via the comms, and it will deliver the credits to Maarva on his behalf. After telling B2EMO (lovingly known as Bee) to lie about having information on Cassian, he goes to the town to meet Brasso and update him on the alibi. While Cassian takes a look at the NS-9 Starpath, Kassa and his friends approach the fallen ship. As a young kid, Cassian goes by the name Kassa (Antonio Viña) and is shown to be looking at a ship falling from the sky, along with all his villagers. Although Bix doesn’t want to take the risk, Cassian pesters her until she agrees to call her buyer. Under the pretext of bribing them, Cassian draws the guards in and then beats the hell out of them.

Cassian Andor's troubles continue as he attempts to make a deal with Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and escape Morlana One, and we meet his adoptive mother ...

(Props for really doing damage with those arrows.) However, what we learn in the show’s present, about the mining disaster that left the planet “toxic,” is a lot more interesting than the flashback scenes. The moments that make this episode feel most like a chunk of a longer pilot aren’t Bix’s shoe-leather negotiations but the scenelets that introduce Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård). Rael does some purposeful walking, as he travels from ship to Ferrix shuttle in relative silence, with Skarsgård on the receiving end of a (sadly not literal) “hello there” movie-star face-reveal shot. Armed with this new information, Syril Karn gets pumped to apprehend Andor and assembles a hilariously dour 12-man force at the urging of his right-hand man, who enthuses that “corporate tactical forces” like theirs are the Empire’s best defense against “fomenting pockets” of rebellion. At times, this recalls some of the most striking shots from Rogue One (including at least one that’s in For example, we meet Cassian’s previously unseen mother, Maarva (given what we see of his childhood, seemingly an adoptive parent), who waits for him with his sensitive droid B2EMO (Dave Chapman provides the sometimes needy, sometimes reproachful robo-voice).

The new show follows Rebel Captain, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), five years before the events of Rogue One. Andor explores his pipeline from a child, who was ...

[writes](https://mashable.com/article/andor-review-disney-plus) that while the show’s first few episodes may be sluggish, “Andor is unmistakably a Star Wars story. Cassian Andor is a head intelligence officer at the Rebel Alliance, and part of a small team that succeeds in retrieving the plans to build the Death Star and delivering them to Princess Leia. [ Star Wars’ films](https://mashable.com/article/star-wars-solo-ranked) and spinoff series, Andor is exclusively streaming on Disney+. Quick Rogue One recap: The Empire is building a Death Star that promises to be the greatest weapon of all time (a galactic G.O.A.T if you will). The new show follows Rebel Captain, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), five years before the events of Rogue One. Disney’s latest Star Wars endeavor is Andor, a two-season prequel series to 2016’s spinoff film

Andor, the highly-anticipated Original series, has arrived on Disney+. The spy thriller stars Diego Luna, reprising the role of Rogue One's Cassian Andor.

[Andor](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/star-wars-andor/3xsQKWG00GL5?cid=DTCI-Synergy-StarWars-Site-Acquisition-StarWars-US-DisneyPlus-NA-EN-BlogArticleEmbed-Generic-NA), the highly-anticipated Original series, has arrived on [Disney+](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/star-wars-andor/3xsQKWG00GL5?cid=DTCI-Synergy-StarWars-Blog-Acquisition-PreSales-US-StarWars-DisneyPlus-EN-BlogPost) with a three-episode premiere. It’s a story that has the most to do with us. “This is the story about the people. Created by Tony Gilroy, the spy thriller stars Diego Luna, reprising the role of [Cassian Andor](https://www.starwars.com/databank/captain-cassian-andor) in a tale set five years prior to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It’s about what we can do, it’s about the power we have.” New episodes will arrive on Disney+ every Wednesday; following a 12-episode first season, Andor will return for Season 2, leading directly into Rogue One. [Star Wars ](https://www.starwars.com/news/swca-2022-20-highlights-from-lucasfilms-studio-showcase) [Celebration Anaheim 2022](https://www.starwars.com/news/swca-2022-20-highlights-from-lucasfilms-studio-showcase).

Andor episodes 1 to 3 are full of easter eggs and references to other corners of the Star Wars universe!

– The other ship on display is Luthen’s, which some fans have taken to calling a “lightsaber ship” for the way it activates a laser beam on each wing to cut down TIE fighters in one of the Andor trailers. This class of ship appeared quite a few times in The Clone Wars animated series. Abrams created the character) in [The Force Awakens](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-easter-eggs-and-reference-guide/). You’ll also spot a Luggabeast, which was the mount used by scavenger Teedo on Jakku in The Force Awakens. Said ship is called a WTK-85A interstellar transport, which first appeared in The Force Awakens and While this is all just a bunch of fancy words for a sci-fi thingy, “Starpath” does call back to the navigational unit of a Legends spaceship called the Errant Venture, a privately owned Star Destroyer that was stolen from the Empire by a Corellian smuggler, painted red, and turned into a bazaar complete with a casino. [Solo: A Star Wars Story](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/solo-a-star-wars-story-review/). [Star Wars: Andor](https://www.denofgeek.com/andor/) opens up a whole new corner of the galaxy far, far away, one where workers clock in to their jobs at the scrapyard and corporate bureaucracy rules entire sectors of space. He also performed the roles of Lady Proxima and Rio Durant in At one point in episode 1, Timm makes a reference to Wobani, which is a planet that first appeared in Rogue One. The Rogue One prequel novel Catalyst established another one of these governments known as the Corporate Sector Authority, which ruled a part of the Outer Rim. Morlana One is a new planet created for the show.

What is "Andor"? Who is Cassian Andor? Everything you need to know before watching the new series, premiering Wednesday on Disney+.

[A New Hope](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-star-wars-hails-the-once-and-future-space-western-20151202-story.html)” (1977) and 14 years after Chancellor Palpatine ends the Clone Wars by declaring himself emperor and issuing the order to exterminate all Jedi in “ [Revenge of the Sith](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-revenge-of-the-sith-review-20151202-story.html)” (2005). A character originated by Caroline Blakiston in “Return of the Jedi” (1983), Mothma is a leader and founding member of the Rebel Alliance. Also, the series is set during a time when any surviving [Jedi are in hiding](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-05-26/obi-wan-kenobi-star-wars-disney-plus) because they have been hunted by the Empire. “Andor” will consist of two 12-episode seasons. the destruction of the first Death Star. Like “Rogue One,” “Andor” has been touted as a grounded exploration of how people and their everyday lives are impacted by the Empire. (Dates after the Battle of Yavin are labeled ABY.) For context, this is five years before Princess Leia sends her S.O.S. In addition to following Andor’s journey to becoming a Rebellion spy willing to die for the cause, the series will show how the unified Rebel Alliance came to be. Created by Tony Gilroy, the “Rogue One” screenwriter known for his work on the “Bourne” films, “Andor” is a spy thriller that will show how its titular hero came to be involved with the Rebel Alliance. In the context of broader “Star Wars” events, the first season of “Andor” is set in 5 BBY — Before the Battle of Yavin, a.k.a. Andor mentions having been in the fight against the Empire since he was 6 years old, after having lost everything. ‘Star Wars’ has long been a franchise fixated on the Skywalker men.

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Disney+ has now dropped the first three episodes of its critically acclaimed new Star Wars show, Andor. Here's what the rest of the release schedule looks ...

[Diego Luna has certainly been impressed](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-andor-revives-missing-saga/) with Gilroy’s approach to the prequel’s structure, which is a lot more thoughtful and detailed than previous Star Wars projects, and embraces a more literary vibe with its narrative. [Doctor Who](https://www.denofgeek.com/doctor-who) and [Sherlock](https://www.denofgeek.com/sherlock) director Toby Haynes, the initial three-episode Andor arc reintroduces us to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s rebel spy Cassian Andor, who died heroically at the end of that movie. A second season of the show is also in development! As [Andor](https://www.denofgeek.com/andor/) is a prequel to that prequel, we meet the character here at an earlier stage in his life when he is still just a shifty thief who will kill mercilessly to cover his tracks, and who doesn’t exactly have his eyes on the revolutionary prize quite yet. [LucasFilm](https://www.denofgeek.com/lucasfilm/)‘s new Star Wars series, Andor, are now officially available! Disney+ has now dropped the first three episodes of its critically acclaimed new Star Wars show, Andor.

As a prequel to a prequel, the latest Disney+ show is an unlikely candidate to break the mold, but the ground-level look at life in the galaxy is 'Star ...

I don’t know if I need to see each step of his transformation, but I’m here for the minor moments that most Star Wars series and movies might omit. (Which was either an attempt to wrest attention from its fantasy competitors, or a concession to the lack of a real climax to the first two episodes.) The supporting cast is universally strong, the world looks suitably lived-in, and the synths and drums in Nicholas Britell’s score lend drama to the proceedings. The sound of that voice telling you to stop, to go, to move. One of the series’ inspired decisions is to leave the Alliance and Empire out of the action early on. (Sadly, the reckoning arrives first for Timm, who tries to make up for his treachery in a futile attempt to free the far more capable Bix. [whatever](https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/7/7/23197786/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-1-finale-review) [their](https://www.theringer.com/house-of-the-dragon/2022/8/22/23315669/house-of-the-dragon-premiere-daemon-targaryen-matt-smith) [virtues](https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/9/16/23356715/house-of-the-dragon-rings-of-power-why-not-both), aren’t intended to reinvent Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Lord of the Rings, respectively. [point at the screen](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pointing-rick-dalton), and assure the audience that it’s in the right place. The Mandalorian [rules](https://www.theringer.com/mandalorian/2020/12/22/22194772/mandalorian-season-3-look-ahead-finale-the-rescue-book-of-boba-fett). [killing the past](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMpZnEMYVc); instead, it [doesn’t think about the past at all](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOSdRMSG_k). That’s the first of several signs that this series is set to deliver a much-needed shock to the Star Wars system and teach a 45-year-old franchise new tricks. Andor arrives at a time when genre fandom is drowning in prequels, products of the pressure to milk recognizable brands for all they’re worth. In Andor, the bar is in a brothel.

It's a series that acts as a prequel to a prequel. It features no epic battles between Jedi and Sith, nor many familiar faces from the movies beyond the titular ...

Andor is one of the few Star Wars projects out there blazing its own trail and telling a story with no Skywalker family connections. This series only has a tenuous link to the main trilogies, yet it’s quickly shaping up to be the best live-action Star Wars series to date. But thanks to the divisive reaction to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the jury is still out as to whether Johnson’s trilogy will ever happen. Star Wars: Andor works because it makes such a point of distancing itself from the Skywalker Saga movies and all the tropes and expectations that go along with them. Meanwhile, a young Princess Leia turned out to be a crucial character in Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, a series steeped in the Skywalker/Kenobi dynamic and Succession’s Nicholas Britell may not be the first name to come to mind for a Star Wars series, but Britell’s music truly captures the unsettling yet stylish tone the series is going for. The Mandalorian and its fellow Disney+ shows have managed to recreate that Star Wars aesthetic on the small screen largely through the help of the Volume, a digital set which projects detailed backgrounds and lighting against a video wall. But even as Andor captures the grimy side of Star Wars, it also succeeds in blazing its own stylistic trail. The scope of the series is actually pretty small by Star Wars standards. The Mandalorian broke major ground in 2019 as the first live-action Star Wars series. They have grand destinies and the power to reshape the course of the galaxy. It's a very different show from the likes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett.

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There are the crazy (female) hair-dos and the incongruous mash-ups of earthly technologies to which we've always turned a blind eye. Relentlessly, we're left out in the cold when it comes to our preconceived ideas of goodies and baddies. And although things may look, sound and feel very different to the Skywalker universe, we're still supplied with sufficient touchstones, so we never lose our bearings completely. Suddenly, and inconceivably, designers of weapons of mass destruction had families; the rebel alliance was complicated by extremism, even the reprogrammed robots couldn't be trusted. Full marks must go to the Andor team for bringing a new level of sophistication to Star Wars but whether the all-important merch-hungry kids will hang around for this slow-burn space espionage saga is the question. With Rogue One (the story of how the plans to blow up the Death Star were stolen), the black and white blurred into grey.

Star Wars: Andor is developed by Rogue One co-writer Tony Gilroy. It stars the following actors: Diego Luna as Cassian Andor; Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma ...

Follow the links below to get started with the first episode of each: "The Andor series will explore a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor’s journey to discover the difference he can make. The release schedule is as follows: Subsequent episodes will be released each Wednesday through November 23. [Star Wars: Andor](/star-wars-andor) debuted its first three episodes today on Disney Plus. The first three episodes will be released on September 21.