The series shut down production in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Disney’s Star Wars series Andor has resumed filming on its second season at London’s Pinewood Studios.
The series began filming in November 2022 but was shut down in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike action. It reportedly had just two weeks of filming left.
Disney+ recently confirmed that the second series will not be premiering in 2024, as originally scheduled, and has been delayed until 2025.
Created by Tony Gilroy, Andor is a prequel to the 2016 Star Wars film Rogue One and follows the character of Cassian Andor on...
Disney’s Star Wars series Andor has resumed filming on its second season at London’s Pinewood Studios.
The series began filming in November 2022 but was shut down in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike action. It reportedly had just two weeks of filming left.
Disney+ recently confirmed that the second series will not be premiering in 2024, as originally scheduled, and has been delayed until 2025.
Created by Tony Gilroy, Andor is a prequel to the 2016 Star Wars film Rogue One and follows the character of Cassian Andor on...
- 1/11/2024
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Denise Gough and Keira Knightley in Colette Photo: Bleeker Street Colette, 11.15pm, BBC2, Monday, November 20
Wash Westmoreland's film about the Belle Époque writer follows her on her journey to liberation from her naive provincial upbringing. She begins to blossom as her books about saucy schoolgirl Claudine - sold under the name of her husband Willy (Dominic West) start to fly off the shelves. There's an engaging complexity to the relationship between Willy and Colette which twists as the film progresses. Denise Gough also puts in a scene-stealing supporting performance as Missy, with whom Colette engages in a same-sex relationship. Beyond the impressive performances, the period is beautifully rendered and despite the film's consideration of ownership, oppression and control ultimately plays like a celebration of freedom of thought. Read what Westmoreland had to say about the influence of Max Ophüls, La Belle Époque and on the relationships in Colette.
Love & Mercy,...
Wash Westmoreland's film about the Belle Époque writer follows her on her journey to liberation from her naive provincial upbringing. She begins to blossom as her books about saucy schoolgirl Claudine - sold under the name of her husband Willy (Dominic West) start to fly off the shelves. There's an engaging complexity to the relationship between Willy and Colette which twists as the film progresses. Denise Gough also puts in a scene-stealing supporting performance as Missy, with whom Colette engages in a same-sex relationship. Beyond the impressive performances, the period is beautifully rendered and despite the film's consideration of ownership, oppression and control ultimately plays like a celebration of freedom of thought. Read what Westmoreland had to say about the influence of Max Ophüls, La Belle Époque and on the relationships in Colette.
Love & Mercy,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Instagram account BritCrewStories has posted a call to action for the demonstration on social media, in the wake of the Hollywood strikes.
UK film and TV crews grappling with mass unemployment due to the US strikes will mount a protest at the opening night gala of the BFI London Film Festival (Lff), at London’s Royal Festival Hall tonight, October 4.
Instagram account BritCrewStories posted a call to action for the UK film and TV workforce, in support of the US industrial action, and as a reminder to industry employers that UK film and TV crews are suffering.
BritCrewStories is platforming the event,...
UK film and TV crews grappling with mass unemployment due to the US strikes will mount a protest at the opening night gala of the BFI London Film Festival (Lff), at London’s Royal Festival Hall tonight, October 4.
Instagram account BritCrewStories posted a call to action for the UK film and TV workforce, in support of the US industrial action, and as a reminder to industry employers that UK film and TV crews are suffering.
BritCrewStories is platforming the event,...
- 10/4/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Will There Be ‘Who Is Erin Carter?’ Season 2? Well, created by Jack Lothian, Netflix’s gripping series ‘Who Is Erin Carter?’ takes viewers on an exhilarating action-adventure journey. The story follows Erin Carter, a British person living in Barcelona, Spain, who works as a substitute teacher.
One day, while shopping at a supermarket with her daughter, they get caught up in a robbery. This event makes Erin’s hidden past start to come out, and the secrets she’s been keeping could harm her family.
If you liked the show’s mix of intense action, thrilling crime-solving, and a strong focus on family, you’re probably wondering if there will be a Season 2.
So, we’ve gathered all the information available about the chances of a season 2 for ‘Who Is Erin Carter?’.
Therefore, keep reading this article till the end to know in detail everything about the second season of “Who Is Erin Carter?.
One day, while shopping at a supermarket with her daughter, they get caught up in a robbery. This event makes Erin’s hidden past start to come out, and the secrets she’s been keeping could harm her family.
If you liked the show’s mix of intense action, thrilling crime-solving, and a strong focus on family, you’re probably wondering if there will be a Season 2.
So, we’ve gathered all the information available about the chances of a season 2 for ‘Who Is Erin Carter?’.
Therefore, keep reading this article till the end to know in detail everything about the second season of “Who Is Erin Carter?.
- 8/26/2023
- by Om Prakash Kaushal
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
Disney+ has set cast for UK psychological drama Playdate, adapted from Alex Dahl’s best-selling novel of the same name, and revealed details of its latest unscripted slate from Britain.
The series, directed by Eva Husson (Mothering Sunday), will star Denise Gough (Andor), Holliday Grainger (Strike), Ambika Mod (I Hate Suzie), Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas), Bronagh Waugh (The Suspect) and Michael Workeye (This is Going to Hurt).
Deadline revealed the show, EPed by Nicola Shindler and Tanya Seghatchian, last month. General series synopsis reads: Elisa’s world is turned upside down when her young daughter Lucia is kidnapped at a sleepover. Who is the mystery woman who took Lucia, and what secrets does she know about Elisa?
The series is executive produced by Shindler (Nolly) for Quay Street Productions, Seghatchian and John Woodward (The Power of the Dog) for Brightstar, Johanna Devereaux, VP of Scripted Content for Disney+ Emea, and Alex Dahl,...
The series, directed by Eva Husson (Mothering Sunday), will star Denise Gough (Andor), Holliday Grainger (Strike), Ambika Mod (I Hate Suzie), Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas), Bronagh Waugh (The Suspect) and Michael Workeye (This is Going to Hurt).
Deadline revealed the show, EPed by Nicola Shindler and Tanya Seghatchian, last month. General series synopsis reads: Elisa’s world is turned upside down when her young daughter Lucia is kidnapped at a sleepover. Who is the mystery woman who took Lucia, and what secrets does she know about Elisa?
The series is executive produced by Shindler (Nolly) for Quay Street Productions, Seghatchian and John Woodward (The Power of the Dog) for Brightstar, Johanna Devereaux, VP of Scripted Content for Disney+ Emea, and Alex Dahl,...
- 8/23/2023
- by Jesse Whittock and Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
While the premiere “Andor” Season 2 remains just over a year away, it’s safe to say it’s easily the most hyped series in the “Star Wars” Disney+ upcoming lineup. Yup, more so than “Ahsoka” or “The Acolyte,” or more episodes of “The Mandalorian.” And fans already know a little about what they should expect in new episodes of “Andor.” For one, Season 2 runs twelve episodes, with a time jump in the narrative every three episodes.
Continue reading ‘Andor’ Stars Denise Gough, Adria Arjona & Kyle Soller Hint About How Their Characters Change In Upcoming Second Season at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Andor’ Stars Denise Gough, Adria Arjona & Kyle Soller Hint About How Their Characters Change In Upcoming Second Season at The Playlist.
- 6/22/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2023 Emmy Predictions:
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Weekly Commentary: Commentary to be added in the coming weeks.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Primetime Emmy predictions in the major categories.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Creative Arts predictions in all categories.
And...
Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys
2023 Emmy Predictions:
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Weekly Commentary: Commentary to be added in the coming weeks.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Primetime Emmy predictions in the major categories.
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Creative Arts predictions in all categories.
And...
- 6/20/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Great casting is one of the things best defined by what it is not. There’s an alchemy to the assembling of a cast — particularly a larger ensemble — that can only be achieved with luck and a sharp eye. And while the 2022-2023 TV season saw plenty of larger-than-life performances and jaw-dropping transformations, these four first-year series managed, in wildly different ways, the same balancing act of star turns and sharply delineated supporting roles. Here are four series worthy of Emmy Award consideration for their feats of casting.
“Andor”Lucasfilm Ltd. “Andor” (Disney+)
Tony Gilroy’s gritty sci-fi/spy thriller is the adult, character-driven “Star Wars” many of us have been waiting for. But Cassian’s origin story would not have been as brilliant without the talented ensemble cast built around Diego Luna by casting directors Nina Gold and Martin Ware: Stellen Skarsgård as the eccentric antiques dealer organizing...
“Andor”Lucasfilm Ltd. “Andor” (Disney+)
Tony Gilroy’s gritty sci-fi/spy thriller is the adult, character-driven “Star Wars” many of us have been waiting for. But Cassian’s origin story would not have been as brilliant without the talented ensemble cast built around Diego Luna by casting directors Nina Gold and Martin Ware: Stellen Skarsgård as the eccentric antiques dealer organizing...
- 5/24/2023
- by Mark Peikert, Sarah Shachat, Jim Hemphill and Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
For a decade and a half, Nick Fury has been a pillar of the Marvel Cinematic Universe feature on the show’s, well, secrets.
You’ll find copies on newsstands from Thursday 11 May – but for now, take a sneak peek inside the pages below. Become an Empire member here.
Secret Invasion
Spies. Skrulls. Samuel L. Jackson. The MCU’s next blockbuster series is bringing the MCU back to Earth for a gritty, noir-inspired espionage thriller, pitching Nick Fury into a political, paranoia-fulled mystery – and nobody is to be trusted. Empire gets the full story on a Marvel series like no other, speaking to stars Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, director Ali Selim and producer Jonathan Schwartz – and a declassified batch of brand new images.
Star Wars Blowout
This year’s Star Wars Celebration brought a swathe of the galaxy’s brightest stars to London,...
You’ll find copies on newsstands from Thursday 11 May – but for now, take a sneak peek inside the pages below. Become an Empire member here.
Secret Invasion
Spies. Skrulls. Samuel L. Jackson. The MCU’s next blockbuster series is bringing the MCU back to Earth for a gritty, noir-inspired espionage thriller, pitching Nick Fury into a political, paranoia-fulled mystery – and nobody is to be trusted. Empire gets the full story on a Marvel series like no other, speaking to stars Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, director Ali Selim and producer Jonathan Schwartz – and a declassified batch of brand new images.
Star Wars Blowout
This year’s Star Wars Celebration brought a swathe of the galaxy’s brightest stars to London,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
“It was a gift of a role, to be honest,” reveals Andy Serkis about portraying the charismatic inmate-turned-revolutionary Kino Loy in “Andor.” For our recent webchat he adds that, “the series as a whole, I adored, but then I adored “Rogue One.” When you’re working with someone like Tony Gilroy,” he says, “he is a man who has a lot to say about the world that we live in,” adding, “Tony is one of those writers who just hits the bullseye with character. He just knows the turns and the levels and the layers.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See Will ‘Andor’ join its ‘Star Wars’ stablemate ‘The Mandalorian’ in Best Drama Series?
“Andor” is the fourth Disney+ live-action series in the “Star Wars” franchise, serving as a prequel to “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (2016) and also by extension to the original Oscar-winning classic “Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope...
See Will ‘Andor’ join its ‘Star Wars’ stablemate ‘The Mandalorian’ in Best Drama Series?
“Andor” is the fourth Disney+ live-action series in the “Star Wars” franchise, serving as a prequel to “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (2016) and also by extension to the original Oscar-winning classic “Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope...
- 5/8/2023
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Of the many miraculous things about Andor – Tony Gilroy, we already know his fate from that 2016 film – he and fellow freedom-fighter Jyn Erso end up being consumed by an explosive blast from the Death Star on the planet Scarif, having uploaded the super-weapon’s secret schematics to the Rebellion just in the nick of time. And from the beginning, Gilroy has been clear: his show will finish at the exact moment we meet Andor in Rogue One.
Now, with filming on Andor Season 2 – set to skip a year every few episodes – moving beyond the midway point, Gilroy has teased a little more of what to expect from the time-hopping final run, telling Empire that the final block of three episodes will specifically cover “the last three days before Rogue One”. And with a finite end point in view, no punches are being pulled. “The risks this season will take are very different,...
Now, with filming on Andor Season 2 – set to skip a year every few episodes – moving beyond the midway point, Gilroy has teased a little more of what to expect from the time-hopping final run, telling Empire that the final block of three episodes will specifically cover “the last three days before Rogue One”. And with a finite end point in view, no punches are being pulled. “The risks this season will take are very different,...
- 5/4/2023
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - TV
Denise Gough has done enough television to know that sometimes what you read in a script doesn’t always make it to the screen. And even after filming was completed, Gough thought that could be the case with the “Star Wars” prequel series, “Andor.” What the two-time Olivier Award winner wasn’t banking on was that Tony Gilroy was running the show.
Read More: “Andor” Season 2 first-look footage teased as Tony Gilroy aims for Summer 2024 release On Disney+
Gough and co-star Kyle Soller, who plays Syrill, were paired for the program’s initial press junket last summer.
Continue reading Denise Gough Promises ‘Andor’ Season 2 Will Be “Epic” [Interview] at The Playlist.
Read More: “Andor” Season 2 first-look footage teased as Tony Gilroy aims for Summer 2024 release On Disney+
Gough and co-star Kyle Soller, who plays Syrill, were paired for the program’s initial press junket last summer.
Continue reading Denise Gough Promises ‘Andor’ Season 2 Will Be “Epic” [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 5/3/2023
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Star Wars Celebration kicked off its opening day in London today with a non-stop series of announcements about some of the year’s most highly anticipated productions—from Disney+ original series including ‘Star Wars: Ahsoka’ and ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ to upcoming feature films including “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
Throughout the day, surprises kept fans’ spirits high as a parade of actors and Lucasfilm luminaries took to the stage to reveal exciting new information about landmark productions.
Taking place at the ExCel London Convention Center, Friday’s activities on the Celebration Stage began with host Ali Plumb welcoming Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy to reflect on the success of the highly acclaimed Disney+ original series ‘Star Wars: Andor.’ They were joined by the series’ director/creator/showrunner Tony Gilroy and stars Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly, Andy Serkis, Muhannad Bahair and Joplin Sibtain,...
Throughout the day, surprises kept fans’ spirits high as a parade of actors and Lucasfilm luminaries took to the stage to reveal exciting new information about landmark productions.
Taking place at the ExCel London Convention Center, Friday’s activities on the Celebration Stage began with host Ali Plumb welcoming Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy to reflect on the success of the highly acclaimed Disney+ original series ‘Star Wars: Andor.’ They were joined by the series’ director/creator/showrunner Tony Gilroy and stars Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly, Andy Serkis, Muhannad Bahair and Joplin Sibtain,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
London, England – April 07: Ali Plumb, Kathleen Kennedy, James Mangold, Dave Filoni, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy onstage durng the studio panel at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London at ExCel on April 07, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images for Disney)
Star Wars Celebration kicked off its opening day in London today with a non-stop series of announcements about some of the year’s most highly anticipated productions—from Disney+ original series including “Star Wars: Ahsoka” and “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” to upcoming feature films including “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
Throughout the day, surprises kept fans’ spirits high as a parade of actors and Lucasfilm luminaries took to the stage to reveal exciting new information about landmark productions.
London, England – April 07: (L-r) Ali Plumb, Kathleen Kennedy, Tony Gilroy, Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly and Andy Serkis onstage during the studio panel...
Star Wars Celebration kicked off its opening day in London today with a non-stop series of announcements about some of the year’s most highly anticipated productions—from Disney+ original series including “Star Wars: Ahsoka” and “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” to upcoming feature films including “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
Throughout the day, surprises kept fans’ spirits high as a parade of actors and Lucasfilm luminaries took to the stage to reveal exciting new information about landmark productions.
London, England – April 07: (L-r) Ali Plumb, Kathleen Kennedy, Tony Gilroy, Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly and Andy Serkis onstage during the studio panel...
- 4/7/2023
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fans may not be getting any new “Star Wars” movies in the near future, but that’s just because the future of the galaxy — at least for now — is in television. And there are a lot of shows coming to the universe.
But what exactly is there beyond the Skywalker Saga? Let’s run it down. Below, you’ll find all the information we have about the upcoming slate of “Star Wars” TV shows, from “Andor” Season 2 to “Ahsoka.” We’ve got release dates, episode counts and all the names you’ll become familiar with.
Ahsoka Mary Elizabeth Winstead in “Ahsoka” (Lucasfilm/Disney)
Premiere Date: August 2023
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Hayden Christensen, Natasha Liu, Ivanna Sakhno and Ray Stevenson
Number of Episodes: Tbd
Ahsoka Tano made her live-action “Star Wars” debut in the second season of “The Mandalorian,” but was originally introduced in the animated “Clone Wars” and “Rebels” series.
But what exactly is there beyond the Skywalker Saga? Let’s run it down. Below, you’ll find all the information we have about the upcoming slate of “Star Wars” TV shows, from “Andor” Season 2 to “Ahsoka.” We’ve got release dates, episode counts and all the names you’ll become familiar with.
Ahsoka Mary Elizabeth Winstead in “Ahsoka” (Lucasfilm/Disney)
Premiere Date: August 2023
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Hayden Christensen, Natasha Liu, Ivanna Sakhno and Ray Stevenson
Number of Episodes: Tbd
Ahsoka Tano made her live-action “Star Wars” debut in the second season of “The Mandalorian,” but was originally introduced in the animated “Clone Wars” and “Rebels” series.
- 4/7/2023
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
This year's "Star Wars Celebration" has officially kicked off, with Lucasfilm's Studio Showcase opening the highly-anticipated event with exciting details about the second season of "Andor." Tony Gilroy's gritty, grounded take on "Star Wars" has a second season in the works, which is aiming for an estimated August 2024 premiere date, per Gilroy himself, who revealed the news during the event's opening panel:
"We started shooting in November [2022]. We're about halfway through. We're going to shoot through August [2023]. We're on the exact schedule. Finish in August, spend another year on post. I suppose we'll come out the following August."
Apart from Gilroy, the entire cast of "Andor" graced the stage during the segment, including the adorable droid B2EMO, who stuttered out a "Hello London! I am so v-v-v-very pleased to meet you all." Diego Luna, who plays the titular rebel spy in "Andor," talked about how happy he is to return to London,...
"We started shooting in November [2022]. We're about halfway through. We're going to shoot through August [2023]. We're on the exact schedule. Finish in August, spend another year on post. I suppose we'll come out the following August."
Apart from Gilroy, the entire cast of "Andor" graced the stage during the segment, including the adorable droid B2EMO, who stuttered out a "Hello London! I am so v-v-v-very pleased to meet you all." Diego Luna, who plays the titular rebel spy in "Andor," talked about how happy he is to return to London,...
- 4/7/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
The cast and creator of Disney+’s Andor kicked off this year’s Star Wars Celebration on Friday morning in London, where a timetable was revealed for Season 2.
Tony Gilroy — the showrunner for Andor who previously penned the screenplay for its “sequel,” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — shared at Star Wars Celebration that Season 2, which started rolling the cameras last November, is now halfway done with filming.
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Tony Gilroy — the showrunner for Andor who previously penned the screenplay for its “sequel,” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — shared at Star Wars Celebration that Season 2, which started rolling the cameras last November, is now halfway done with filming.
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- 4/7/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Luscasfilm unveiled its first look at Season 2 of its Disney+ series “Andor” on Friday as part of the Star Wars Celebration fan convention in London.
The 12-episode first season of “Andor,” created and executive produced by “Rogue One” co-writer Tony Gilroy, debuted in September to wide acclaim for its sprawling, ground-level depiction of the formation of the Rebel Alliance. Set five years before the events of “Rogue One,” the first season tracks a year in the life of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he transforms from a cynical, small-time criminal into a man ready to join the fight against the Galactic Empire.
Gilroy explained on Friday that the team is working as quickly as possible to get Season 2 done. Shooting began in November and is expected to wrap in August. The creator predicted the show will hit Disney+ in August 2024.
“If you know your ending, it really helps,” said Gilroy.
The 12-episode first season of “Andor,” created and executive produced by “Rogue One” co-writer Tony Gilroy, debuted in September to wide acclaim for its sprawling, ground-level depiction of the formation of the Rebel Alliance. Set five years before the events of “Rogue One,” the first season tracks a year in the life of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he transforms from a cynical, small-time criminal into a man ready to join the fight against the Galactic Empire.
Gilroy explained on Friday that the team is working as quickly as possible to get Season 2 done. Shooting began in November and is expected to wrap in August. The creator predicted the show will hit Disney+ in August 2024.
“If you know your ending, it really helps,” said Gilroy.
- 4/7/2023
- by Adam B. Vary and Amon Warmann
- Variety Film + TV
“Andor” is a strong contender to crack the Emmy Best Drama Series lineup this year, earning favorable reviews and awards buzz after its Disney Plus premiere last fall. But is there room on the nominees list for two ‘Star Wars’ shows, with the sophisticated sci-fi noir competing against “The Mandalorian,” its comrade from a galaxy far, far away? That show’s third season (currently streaming weekly) is in the hunt for a third consecutive nomination in the top category after its breakthrough in 2020 and follow-up nomination in 2021.
“The Mandalorian” became the third space-set drama ever nominated in Best Drama Series after “Star Trek: The Next Generation” three decades ago in 1994 and the original “Star Trek” almost three decades before that in 1967 and 1968. There’s a real possibility that “Andor” will be the fourth.
See Exclusive Video Interview: Diego Luna (‘Andor’)
The latest live-action series in the Disney-era “Star Wars” franchise,...
“The Mandalorian” became the third space-set drama ever nominated in Best Drama Series after “Star Trek: The Next Generation” three decades ago in 1994 and the original “Star Trek” almost three decades before that in 1967 and 1968. There’s a real possibility that “Andor” will be the fourth.
See Exclusive Video Interview: Diego Luna (‘Andor’)
The latest live-action series in the Disney-era “Star Wars” franchise,...
- 3/21/2023
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
BET has announced the cable premiere of the documentary “Loudmouth,” which explores the legacy of social justice leader Reverend Al Sharpton. The documentary will premiere Feb. 25 at 4:30 p.m. on BET, BET Her, VH1, BET+ and Showtime at a later date.
“‘Loudmouth’ tells the story about how and why I had to be loud to call out the racism in a northern city like New York, where you were competing with the bright lights of Broadway,” Rev. Sharpton said in a statement. “In this crucial year, when we are fighting for racial justice in the voting booth and in the streets, I hope this film will inspire the next generation of Loudmouths to get off the sidelines.”
“Loudmouth” features never-before-seen footage of Rev. Sharpton on the frontlines, in the media and in the corridors of power, as well as chronicling how he has spent his lifetime in pursuit of...
“‘Loudmouth’ tells the story about how and why I had to be loud to call out the racism in a northern city like New York, where you were competing with the bright lights of Broadway,” Rev. Sharpton said in a statement. “In this crucial year, when we are fighting for racial justice in the voting booth and in the streets, I hope this film will inspire the next generation of Loudmouths to get off the sidelines.”
“Loudmouth” features never-before-seen footage of Rev. Sharpton on the frontlines, in the media and in the corridors of power, as well as chronicling how he has spent his lifetime in pursuit of...
- 2/10/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
In Greek filmmaker Argyris Papadimitropoulos' romantic drama film "Monday," Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough ("Andor") play two thirty-something ex-pats who enter a whirlwind relationship over a weekend. When the excitement of the fling settles down, the pair try to extend their chemistry into a real relationship back at home. "Monday" is a look at how messy love can be — it's about living in the moment no matter the consequences, and shows how deeply love and life are interconnected.
In depicting an intense, passionate relationship that blossoms from a drunken fling, the actors engaged in a fair bit of nudity. To Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough, every scene in the film needed to be meaningful and earned. Gough was excited to work with Papadimitropoulos because she felt she was in "really safe hands" (via The Wrap). For Stan, it was about the collaborative experience and ensuring every scene in "Monday" earned its rightful place.
In depicting an intense, passionate relationship that blossoms from a drunken fling, the actors engaged in a fair bit of nudity. To Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough, every scene in the film needed to be meaningful and earned. Gough was excited to work with Papadimitropoulos because she felt she was in "really safe hands" (via The Wrap). For Stan, it was about the collaborative experience and ensuring every scene in "Monday" earned its rightful place.
- 2/4/2023
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
For two decades, the SAG Awards all but ignored science fiction on TV. There were exceptions, of course — the ensembles of “3rd Rock From the Sun,” “The X-Files” and “Lost” were all nominated, and John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson earned individual recognition. It wasn’t until the 2016 SAG Awards — when the first seasons of “Westworld” and “Stranger Things” both earned nominations for their ensembles and their respective stars Thandie Newton, Millie Bobby Brown and Winona Ryder — that the guild began to regularly consider sci-fi performances as worthy of recognition alongside other series.
Even then, however, nominated shows “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Lovecraft Country” and “Squid Game” sit on the fringes of what most people even consider to be science fiction. This year, the SAG Awards have the opportunity to nominate ensembles and performances on multiple shows that sit enthusiastically at sci-fi’s center.
Most obviously, there’s multiple-Emmy nominee “Severance,...
Even then, however, nominated shows “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Lovecraft Country” and “Squid Game” sit on the fringes of what most people even consider to be science fiction. This year, the SAG Awards have the opportunity to nominate ensembles and performances on multiple shows that sit enthusiastically at sci-fi’s center.
Most obviously, there’s multiple-Emmy nominee “Severance,...
- 12/28/2022
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
After just one season, "Andor" has solidified itself in the upper echelon of "Star Wars" projects. The series pushes the beloved franchise forward in a fresh, grounded direction. From its titular character to the desperate world of rebels around him, "Andor" is a mature departure from the typical fanfare and is unlike anything we've seen in the galaxy far, far away. A part of what makes the series so engaging is the bevy of characters that bring the heights of "Star Wars" back down to a planetary surface. The mundane nature of the show is best characterized by the Imperial forces that threaten the rebellion, including a particularly devious officer in Lieutenant Supervisor Blevin, played by Ben Bailey Smith.
Through Blevin, Bailey Smith is tasked with helping to bring an Empire to life that's far more subtle in how it rules the galaxy with an iron fist. He often clashes...
Through Blevin, Bailey Smith is tasked with helping to bring an Empire to life that's far more subtle in how it rules the galaxy with an iron fist. He often clashes...
- 12/28/2022
- by Marcos Melendez
- Slash Film
From subsequent installments of fan-favorite series to breakout debuts, 2022 featured a host of shows across genres, worlds and themes that dominated conversations, engaged our senses and thrilled us to our cores.
Whether it was the plethora of memes that came out of “The White Lotus” Season 2 finale, the numerous analyses about what “Severance” says about our relationship to work-life balance or the collective Twitter fervor over the budding romance between Janine and Gregory in “Abbott Elementary,” we were entertained, shaken, enthralled and captivated by these excellent TV shows.
As we look toward 2023 — and the many, many series (returning and new) that are sure to grace our screens — members of TheWrap staff and TV team took a moment to reflect on some of the standout shows we loved this year. “Pachinko” moved us, “Bad Sisters” made us cackle, “The Bear” stressed us the f— out and “The Rehearsal” pushed the boundaries of our understanding of television.
Whether it was the plethora of memes that came out of “The White Lotus” Season 2 finale, the numerous analyses about what “Severance” says about our relationship to work-life balance or the collective Twitter fervor over the budding romance between Janine and Gregory in “Abbott Elementary,” we were entertained, shaken, enthralled and captivated by these excellent TV shows.
As we look toward 2023 — and the many, many series (returning and new) that are sure to grace our screens — members of TheWrap staff and TV team took a moment to reflect on some of the standout shows we loved this year. “Pachinko” moved us, “Bad Sisters” made us cackle, “The Bear” stressed us the f— out and “The Rehearsal” pushed the boundaries of our understanding of television.
- 12/26/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan, Loree Seitz, Dessi Gomez, Lucas Manfredi, Drew Taylor, Adam Chitwood and Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
“I love ‘Star Wars,’ I’ve watched ‘Star Wars’ for my whole life,” reveals Diego Luna, the star of the latest and most critically acclaimed live action “Star Wars” project since the film it presages, the 2016 spin-off “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” For our recent webchat he adds about the thrill of being a part of this universe, “now I have kids I’m glad there’s room for new things, for something different to this universe and I am happy to be part of that.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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“Andor” is the fourth Disney+ live-action series in the “Star Wars” franchise, serving as a prequel to “Rogue One” (2016) and by extension also to the original Oscar-winning classic “Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope” (1977). Luna, who serves as an executive producer on the series, reprises his role from...
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“Andor” is the fourth Disney+ live-action series in the “Star Wars” franchise, serving as a prequel to “Rogue One” (2016) and by extension also to the original Oscar-winning classic “Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope” (1977). Luna, who serves as an executive producer on the series, reprises his role from...
- 12/22/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
In a 20-minute conversation about creating the fearsome Dedra Meero for “Andor,” actor Denise Gough mentions the show’s writing exactly seven times.
Nine times, if you count the last mention — “The writing, the writing, the writing!” — as multiple, but it’s hard to fault the Irish actor for being so thoroughly enamored with the scripts by Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy, Beau Willimon, and Stephen Schiff.
“It’s like a great play,” she told IndieWire over Zoom, speaking of how everything on “Andor” came together with the writing as its foundation. “Get out of the way. Don’t overthink it, don’t try and manage things or get out in front of it. You let it carry you along.”
Gough comes from the theater, where Gilroy saw her on stage a few years ago. “He saw Dedra then,” she said. “He’s the one that saw each of us and...
Nine times, if you count the last mention — “The writing, the writing, the writing!” — as multiple, but it’s hard to fault the Irish actor for being so thoroughly enamored with the scripts by Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy, Beau Willimon, and Stephen Schiff.
“It’s like a great play,” she told IndieWire over Zoom, speaking of how everything on “Andor” came together with the writing as its foundation. “Get out of the way. Don’t overthink it, don’t try and manage things or get out in front of it. You let it carry you along.”
Gough comes from the theater, where Gilroy saw her on stage a few years ago. “He saw Dedra then,” she said. “He’s the one that saw each of us and...
- 12/8/2022
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
Spoilers for Andor. Consider yourself warned. Andor may have the distinction of being the first Star Wars series to have a character say “shit” on screen, but it almost dropped an F-bomb as well.
While chatting with Empire, Denise Gough — who plays Imperial Security Bureau supervisor Dedra Meero — spoke of shooting the scene of Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) funeral. In a posthumous holographic funeral speech, Maarva urges the people of Ferrix to rise up against the Empire, but what was said on the Andor set wasn’t what made the final cut. “Fiona’s voice was over all of us,” Gough said. “Except, at the end, she didn’t say, ‘Fight the Empire!’ She said, ‘F**k the Empire!’ Which we were all really excited about. But we weren’t allowed to keep it, obviously.” The F-bomb may have only been included to illicit a reaction from the actors on the Andor set,...
While chatting with Empire, Denise Gough — who plays Imperial Security Bureau supervisor Dedra Meero — spoke of shooting the scene of Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) funeral. In a posthumous holographic funeral speech, Maarva urges the people of Ferrix to rise up against the Empire, but what was said on the Andor set wasn’t what made the final cut. “Fiona’s voice was over all of us,” Gough said. “Except, at the end, she didn’t say, ‘Fight the Empire!’ She said, ‘F**k the Empire!’ Which we were all really excited about. But we weren’t allowed to keep it, obviously.” The F-bomb may have only been included to illicit a reaction from the actors on the Andor set,...
- 11/30/2022
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Warning: Contains Andor Season 1 spoilers
Shortly after receiving the scripts for Andor Season 2, Denise Gough. “I said, ‘Hello, boss!’ I thought, if anyone took a picture of this, it’s so brilliant – Dedra having an undercover meeting with the Emperor in Notting Hill.” In the Skywalker Saga, Palpatine was the Empire’s fearsome figurehead, always looming in the shadows. But in Andor, Dedra is out in front – a dangerously driven Imperial officer with a desire for order stronger than the tractor beam of an Arrestor Cruiser. Star Wars has a new face of evil – and it’s the face of Dedra Meero.
That face is one of her primary weapons. Unlike Vader, Palpatine, and Kylo Ren, Dedra isn’t a Force-user. She has no lightsaber, nor the Darksaber. She has no cloak to swoosh, no grand evil designs; just an unwavering dedication to the Empire’s ideologies, and a stare...
Shortly after receiving the scripts for Andor Season 2, Denise Gough. “I said, ‘Hello, boss!’ I thought, if anyone took a picture of this, it’s so brilliant – Dedra having an undercover meeting with the Emperor in Notting Hill.” In the Skywalker Saga, Palpatine was the Empire’s fearsome figurehead, always looming in the shadows. But in Andor, Dedra is out in front – a dangerously driven Imperial officer with a desire for order stronger than the tractor beam of an Arrestor Cruiser. Star Wars has a new face of evil – and it’s the face of Dedra Meero.
That face is one of her primary weapons. Unlike Vader, Palpatine, and Kylo Ren, Dedra isn’t a Force-user. She has no lightsaber, nor the Darksaber. She has no cloak to swoosh, no grand evil designs; just an unwavering dedication to the Empire’s ideologies, and a stare...
- 11/29/2022
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - TV
Major spoilers ahead for the "Andor" season finale.
Syril (Kyle Soller) and Dedra (Denise Gough) are the ickiest couple to exist in a Star Wars project, and that includes Luke and Leia after the audience learned that they were related. This particular "Andor" ship is horrifying. Dedra is a cold-blooded bureaucrat in the Isb who cares about nothing but order and putting down the rebels. Syril is an order-obsessed toady who is clearly stalking her as a substitute for his monster of an overbearing mother (Kathryn Hunter). He admires her to the point of devotion. Yes, they both worship order, but the idea of a relationship between them is horrifying.
... So why do we want them to kiss already?
I can practically feel you shuddering over the internet, but you know it's true. In the final episode of "Andor" season 1, Dedra is caught up in the Ferrix riot during Maarva's...
Syril (Kyle Soller) and Dedra (Denise Gough) are the ickiest couple to exist in a Star Wars project, and that includes Luke and Leia after the audience learned that they were related. This particular "Andor" ship is horrifying. Dedra is a cold-blooded bureaucrat in the Isb who cares about nothing but order and putting down the rebels. Syril is an order-obsessed toady who is clearly stalking her as a substitute for his monster of an overbearing mother (Kathryn Hunter). He admires her to the point of devotion. Yes, they both worship order, but the idea of a relationship between them is horrifying.
... So why do we want them to kiss already?
I can practically feel you shuddering over the internet, but you know it's true. In the final episode of "Andor" season 1, Dedra is caught up in the Ferrix riot during Maarva's...
- 11/28/2022
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
"He is a new kind of hero for a new age. His name is Andor." This is where that ol' phrase "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" makes sense - a long time ago in 1975, a Star Wars series aired on television. Ha ha. A YouTube channel created this glorious fan-made TV intro for the Andor series replicating the 70s TV intro style. It's kind of amazing! Set five years before the events of Rogue One, the series follows rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative years of the Rebellion. It's showrun and created by writer Tony Gilroy. Diego Luna returns as Andor, with a cast featuring Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, as well as Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma; plus Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera. "It's 1975. A New Hope won't be released for another two years, and George Lucas is...
- 11/28/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Initially written off as just another unnecessary spin-off for an ancillary character from a spin-off from the main film series, "Andor" has instead emerged as one of the most exciting, viscerally thrilling, politically charged additions to the "Star Wars" universe since, well, the very first film. With Tony Gilroy at the helm, the series features an array of new characters, masterful pacing, and a dark oppressive feel that hangs over every episode.
"Andor" has constantly hopped between genres, from a heist film to a prison escape to a rebel uprising. It's been described by some as "Les Misérables in space," not something you would expect from the studio that brought you the often frustratingly simple "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and "The Book of Boba Fett."
As well as a strong, nuanced turn from Diego Luna at its center, the series features beautifully observed performances from an incredible cast that includes Fiona Shaw,...
"Andor" has constantly hopped between genres, from a heist film to a prison escape to a rebel uprising. It's been described by some as "Les Misérables in space," not something you would expect from the studio that brought you the often frustratingly simple "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and "The Book of Boba Fett."
As well as a strong, nuanced turn from Diego Luna at its center, the series features beautifully observed performances from an incredible cast that includes Fiona Shaw,...
- 11/26/2022
- by Nick Bartlett
- Slash Film
Warning: The following interview has spoilers of Andor‘s Season 1 finale “Rix Road” on Disney+
Star Wars creator George Lucas once wrote about “the taxation of trade routes” in the opening prologue of Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menance, and if Disney+’s Star Wars series has given die-hard fans anything, it’s the binary, granular look at how such universe politics come to be.
While The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett have been intoxicated by callbacks to legacy characters and all-things atmospheric from Lucas and even Star Wars animation architect Dave Filoni’s imaginings, Gilroy has focused on the smaller conversations — the clerical details if you will, of how a bureaucratic Imperial force rises and how a rebellion among disparate factions comes together —.
One such jaw-dropping detail revealed in the epilogue: Those big steel wheels that Cassian and the Narkina 5 prisoners were assembling a few episodes ago were parts for the Death Star’s firing cannon. Duh. It’s those type of Easter eggs that Andor has thrived on, versus, say deep universe cameos from the Filoni animation shows.
(L-r): Corv (Noof Ousellam), Lieutenant Keysax (Nick Moss), Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) and Captain Vanis Tigo (Wilf Scolding)
Season 1 completes the first year in rebel-to be Cassian Andor’s life. He returns to Ferrix for his adoptive mother Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) funeral, but he can’t exactly be out in the open. The Imperials are sniffing out something is about to go down, and it does, as droid B2Emo projects a hologram of Maarva before the crowd, and in Obi-Wan style, encourages them to fight the power (“Fight the Empire!”). At which point, there’s an outburst worse than a drunk Mardi Gras with pipe bombs going off. Let the Star Wars begin. Andor escapes through furnace tunnels, and Imperial Security Bureau supervisor Dedra Meero (the sublime Denise Gough) is trampled by protestors, only to be rescued by her twin flame, anti-Andor, uber-Imperial wannabe Syril Karn (Kyle Soller). It was just a few episodes ago, she was playing hard to get. Now it looks to be a romance steamier than anything on Grey’s Anatomy.
All things end on Luthen Rael’s (Stellan Skarsgård) Fondor, where he’s confronted by Cassian.
“You came to kill me,” Andor says. “You don’t make it easy,” answers Luthen.
“I will now,” Andor says, giving up. “Kill me… or take me with.”
Luthen grins, knowing that Andor is part of the Rebel cause.
Here’s our interview with Andor creator Tony Gilroy, who was taking a break from shooting season 2 over in England:
Maarva (Fiona Shaw) in a scene from Lucasfilm’s Andor, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & Tm. All Rights Reserved.
Deadline: Was there something in history that the Season 1 finale was inspired by? Especially with everything that is going on in Ukraine.
Tony Gilroy: It’s just so incredibly sad how easily available all of the things that seemed contemporaneously sad are through history, and that they just continue to repeat themselves.
There are things all the way through the show, and I don’t want to go through and quote chapter and verse, but this is the Russian Revolution. This is the Montagnard. This is something interesting that happened in the Haitian Revolution. This is the Anc. Oh, this is the Earth Gun Building, Palestine. This is the Continental Congress. This goes all the way…I mean, you could drop a needle in the last, I don’t know what is recorded history, 3,000 years, legitimate recorded, I mean, slavery, oppression, colonialism, bad behavior, betrayal, heroism, I mean, it’s a continuum.
Deadline: The fleshing out of Rebel cofounder Mon Mothma – she feels like a nod to Nancy Pelosi. She’s this upper class person who knows she’s a catalyst to make a difference and right wrongs.
Gilroy: Her job description is Senator, longtime politician, power player, doesn’t get everything she wants, doesn’t get everything he wants. I certainly wasn’t thinking about the American Speaker of the House when I was writing the scripts.
Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) in Lucasfilm’s Andor
Deadline: The cliffhanger where Cassian lays his life on the line and faces off with Luthen Rael — were you always planning that?
Gilroy: I said we take 12 episodes, across a year, we’ll take this entire expanse of time, and we’ll take somebody who’s completely disillusioned and completely self-interested and really having the worst day of their life, and just someone who’s turning into a roach, and we’re going to turn that person in one year, we’re going to make the first turn to being the guy who’s in Rogue One, and we’re going to make him sign up.
And so, yeah, the final moment of this is a blood out. It took us this long to do it. It is what it is, the road to Damascus, or it’s 12 stations of the cross, or whatever context you want to put it in. He’s gone through everything to become: To sort of give a blood out at the end of the show and say, ‘That’s it, I’m in.’ His commitment to the Rebellion and to fight the Empire and to dedicate his life to that, we’re not going to put that in doubt now. Going forward, we have a whole bunch of new issues that we’re going to deal with. But that final line was on the table before many other things were worked up.
Deadline: Mapping out next season, how many episodes per each year of Cassian’s life?
Gilroy: We’re going to cover in the next 12 episodes, we’re going to cover the next four years. So, each block of three episodes that we shoot, and that happens to be our organizing principle for production.
So, when we come back for our second half, it’ll be a year later. An entire year will have gone on. All kinds of things will have happened, and we’ll pick up the show; sometimes we’ll do a week, we’ll do three days, we’ll do four days, whatever, and then we’ll drop a year in between.
The last one will be the last, I don’t know what it is, three, four days before the beginning of Rogue One, and then our final scene has always been known, which will be walking him into the first scene of Rogue One. So, we will be dealing with time in a different way, but it’ll be blocks of three. That’ll be our principle.
Deadline: Can you tease Season 2?
Gilroy: We will be dealing with, by the time you get to Rogue One, you have the Rebel Alliance, which is a whole bunch of different disparate factions and people that have arrived at Yavin and have coalesced into what will become an organized rebellion. Well, we have four years to examine how difficult it is to put a revolution together, how difficult it is to become a leader, how difficult it is to be a victim.
But what happens to the original gangsters? What happens to the outliers? What happens to the people who were…every revolution consumes people and glorifies people, and not always the people that did the thing that mattered. How do you scale up something that essentially does not thrive in sunshine? How do you that? And those issues and all the chaos of that is going to be of great interest to us going forward.
Duncan Pow, who plays Melshi, will be back. Obviously, we’re playing there with that, because he’s going to be in Rogue One.
Deadline: The Imperials seem to be making Cassian a more notorious guy than he really is. They seem to be giving him this larger than life reputation. Do you agree?
Gilroy: One doesn’t even really know who he really is. They don’t even really know how bad he is. They don’t know. I mean, they think he might have been in Aldhani, but the reason that Denise Gough’s Dedra Meero is trying to get him so bad — it’s a great hunter and hunted relationship. It’s a desperate thing and she’s right to be chasing him. She’s thinks enough like him that she’s the first person who realizes that Aldhani isn’t a robbery, it’s an announcement. And she’s going to be chasing him for a long time, and you know, Cassian is the link. That is the only viable link that she can find. If she can find him, she might find Luthen. Stellan’s Luthen doesn’t know who Cassian is.
Deadline: That epilogue with the building of the Death Star, was that always in the cards?
Gilroy: Yeah, when we came up with the prison and then we started saying, ‘What are we making?’ and then we built the thing. It’s like, ‘Oh, my God. Well, let’s have it do that. How ironic and how potent and how round and synchronicitis that is.’
And then, Mohen Leo and Tj Falls, who are visual arts department, who are just amazing and they were on Rogue One, they were like, ‘Oh, let us play with that.’ And you know, six months later you go into a visual master deal and it’s like, oh, we have a special gift to launch today and it’s like, the raw version of that, it was so cool. They did all that and we helped refine it, but it’s their piece as well.
The Q&a was edited for length and clarity.
Star Wars creator George Lucas once wrote about “the taxation of trade routes” in the opening prologue of Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menance, and if Disney+’s Star Wars series has given die-hard fans anything, it’s the binary, granular look at how such universe politics come to be.
While The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett have been intoxicated by callbacks to legacy characters and all-things atmospheric from Lucas and even Star Wars animation architect Dave Filoni’s imaginings, Gilroy has focused on the smaller conversations — the clerical details if you will, of how a bureaucratic Imperial force rises and how a rebellion among disparate factions comes together —.
One such jaw-dropping detail revealed in the epilogue: Those big steel wheels that Cassian and the Narkina 5 prisoners were assembling a few episodes ago were parts for the Death Star’s firing cannon. Duh. It’s those type of Easter eggs that Andor has thrived on, versus, say deep universe cameos from the Filoni animation shows.
(L-r): Corv (Noof Ousellam), Lieutenant Keysax (Nick Moss), Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) and Captain Vanis Tigo (Wilf Scolding)
Season 1 completes the first year in rebel-to be Cassian Andor’s life. He returns to Ferrix for his adoptive mother Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) funeral, but he can’t exactly be out in the open. The Imperials are sniffing out something is about to go down, and it does, as droid B2Emo projects a hologram of Maarva before the crowd, and in Obi-Wan style, encourages them to fight the power (“Fight the Empire!”). At which point, there’s an outburst worse than a drunk Mardi Gras with pipe bombs going off. Let the Star Wars begin. Andor escapes through furnace tunnels, and Imperial Security Bureau supervisor Dedra Meero (the sublime Denise Gough) is trampled by protestors, only to be rescued by her twin flame, anti-Andor, uber-Imperial wannabe Syril Karn (Kyle Soller). It was just a few episodes ago, she was playing hard to get. Now it looks to be a romance steamier than anything on Grey’s Anatomy.
All things end on Luthen Rael’s (Stellan Skarsgård) Fondor, where he’s confronted by Cassian.
“You came to kill me,” Andor says. “You don’t make it easy,” answers Luthen.
“I will now,” Andor says, giving up. “Kill me… or take me with.”
Luthen grins, knowing that Andor is part of the Rebel cause.
Here’s our interview with Andor creator Tony Gilroy, who was taking a break from shooting season 2 over in England:
Maarva (Fiona Shaw) in a scene from Lucasfilm’s Andor, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & Tm. All Rights Reserved.
Deadline: Was there something in history that the Season 1 finale was inspired by? Especially with everything that is going on in Ukraine.
Tony Gilroy: It’s just so incredibly sad how easily available all of the things that seemed contemporaneously sad are through history, and that they just continue to repeat themselves.
There are things all the way through the show, and I don’t want to go through and quote chapter and verse, but this is the Russian Revolution. This is the Montagnard. This is something interesting that happened in the Haitian Revolution. This is the Anc. Oh, this is the Earth Gun Building, Palestine. This is the Continental Congress. This goes all the way…I mean, you could drop a needle in the last, I don’t know what is recorded history, 3,000 years, legitimate recorded, I mean, slavery, oppression, colonialism, bad behavior, betrayal, heroism, I mean, it’s a continuum.
Deadline: The fleshing out of Rebel cofounder Mon Mothma – she feels like a nod to Nancy Pelosi. She’s this upper class person who knows she’s a catalyst to make a difference and right wrongs.
Gilroy: Her job description is Senator, longtime politician, power player, doesn’t get everything she wants, doesn’t get everything he wants. I certainly wasn’t thinking about the American Speaker of the House when I was writing the scripts.
Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) in Lucasfilm’s Andor
Deadline: The cliffhanger where Cassian lays his life on the line and faces off with Luthen Rael — were you always planning that?
Gilroy: I said we take 12 episodes, across a year, we’ll take this entire expanse of time, and we’ll take somebody who’s completely disillusioned and completely self-interested and really having the worst day of their life, and just someone who’s turning into a roach, and we’re going to turn that person in one year, we’re going to make the first turn to being the guy who’s in Rogue One, and we’re going to make him sign up.
And so, yeah, the final moment of this is a blood out. It took us this long to do it. It is what it is, the road to Damascus, or it’s 12 stations of the cross, or whatever context you want to put it in. He’s gone through everything to become: To sort of give a blood out at the end of the show and say, ‘That’s it, I’m in.’ His commitment to the Rebellion and to fight the Empire and to dedicate his life to that, we’re not going to put that in doubt now. Going forward, we have a whole bunch of new issues that we’re going to deal with. But that final line was on the table before many other things were worked up.
Deadline: Mapping out next season, how many episodes per each year of Cassian’s life?
Gilroy: We’re going to cover in the next 12 episodes, we’re going to cover the next four years. So, each block of three episodes that we shoot, and that happens to be our organizing principle for production.
So, when we come back for our second half, it’ll be a year later. An entire year will have gone on. All kinds of things will have happened, and we’ll pick up the show; sometimes we’ll do a week, we’ll do three days, we’ll do four days, whatever, and then we’ll drop a year in between.
The last one will be the last, I don’t know what it is, three, four days before the beginning of Rogue One, and then our final scene has always been known, which will be walking him into the first scene of Rogue One. So, we will be dealing with time in a different way, but it’ll be blocks of three. That’ll be our principle.
Deadline: Can you tease Season 2?
Gilroy: We will be dealing with, by the time you get to Rogue One, you have the Rebel Alliance, which is a whole bunch of different disparate factions and people that have arrived at Yavin and have coalesced into what will become an organized rebellion. Well, we have four years to examine how difficult it is to put a revolution together, how difficult it is to become a leader, how difficult it is to be a victim.
But what happens to the original gangsters? What happens to the outliers? What happens to the people who were…every revolution consumes people and glorifies people, and not always the people that did the thing that mattered. How do you scale up something that essentially does not thrive in sunshine? How do you that? And those issues and all the chaos of that is going to be of great interest to us going forward.
Duncan Pow, who plays Melshi, will be back. Obviously, we’re playing there with that, because he’s going to be in Rogue One.
Deadline: The Imperials seem to be making Cassian a more notorious guy than he really is. They seem to be giving him this larger than life reputation. Do you agree?
Gilroy: One doesn’t even really know who he really is. They don’t even really know how bad he is. They don’t know. I mean, they think he might have been in Aldhani, but the reason that Denise Gough’s Dedra Meero is trying to get him so bad — it’s a great hunter and hunted relationship. It’s a desperate thing and she’s right to be chasing him. She’s thinks enough like him that she’s the first person who realizes that Aldhani isn’t a robbery, it’s an announcement. And she’s going to be chasing him for a long time, and you know, Cassian is the link. That is the only viable link that she can find. If she can find him, she might find Luthen. Stellan’s Luthen doesn’t know who Cassian is.
Deadline: That epilogue with the building of the Death Star, was that always in the cards?
Gilroy: Yeah, when we came up with the prison and then we started saying, ‘What are we making?’ and then we built the thing. It’s like, ‘Oh, my God. Well, let’s have it do that. How ironic and how potent and how round and synchronicitis that is.’
And then, Mohen Leo and Tj Falls, who are visual arts department, who are just amazing and they were on Rogue One, they were like, ‘Oh, let us play with that.’ And you know, six months later you go into a visual master deal and it’s like, oh, we have a special gift to launch today and it’s like, the raw version of that, it was so cool. They did all that and we helped refine it, but it’s their piece as well.
The Q&a was edited for length and clarity.
- 11/24/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Image Source: Getty / Dimitrios Kambouris, Mike Marsland, and Matt Winkelmeyer and Photo Illustration: Keila Gonzalez
Even Star Wars superfans have been blown away by "Andor," which mixes intrigue, politics, rebellion, love, and loyalty into one striking and stunning series. The show, which wrapped up its first season Nov. 23, takes its name from Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna, who is first introduced as a rebel spy in "Rogue One."
"Andor" is a prequel, but the series from showrunner Tony Gilroy isn't just concerned with its title hero, whose journey focuses on his path to the center of the rebellion. The show is really about a sprawling network of people spread across a galaxy kept under the brutal fist of the Empire. We meet Bix, played by Adria Arjona, Cassian's friend who's just trying to scrape out a simple life. She has a deep bond with Cassian and his mother,...
Even Star Wars superfans have been blown away by "Andor," which mixes intrigue, politics, rebellion, love, and loyalty into one striking and stunning series. The show, which wrapped up its first season Nov. 23, takes its name from Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna, who is first introduced as a rebel spy in "Rogue One."
"Andor" is a prequel, but the series from showrunner Tony Gilroy isn't just concerned with its title hero, whose journey focuses on his path to the center of the rebellion. The show is really about a sprawling network of people spread across a galaxy kept under the brutal fist of the Empire. We meet Bix, played by Adria Arjona, Cassian's friend who's just trying to scrape out a simple life. She has a deep bond with Cassian and his mother,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
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[This story contains spoilers for Andor season one.]
Now that Andor season one has come to a close, creator Tony Gilroy is already off and running on season two.
The showrunner of the critically acclaimed Disney+ Star Wars series is currently embarking on a shoot that will last through August 2023, but he still managed to carve out some time to answer some of the lingering questions from the season one finale.
In “Rix Road,” the citizens of Ferrix were so inspired by Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) parting words via hologram that they fought back against the Imperial forces that had been occupying their town for quite some time. Cassian (Diego Luna), who couldn’t help but risk everything to return home for his adoptive mother’s funeral, managed to spot spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) in the crowd, and once he freed Bix (Adria Arjona) from captivity and...
[This story contains spoilers for Andor season one.]
Now that Andor season one has come to a close, creator Tony Gilroy is already off and running on season two.
The showrunner of the critically acclaimed Disney+ Star Wars series is currently embarking on a shoot that will last through August 2023, but he still managed to carve out some time to answer some of the lingering questions from the season one finale.
In “Rix Road,” the citizens of Ferrix were so inspired by Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) parting words via hologram that they fought back against the Imperial forces that had been occupying their town for quite some time. Cassian (Diego Luna), who couldn’t help but risk everything to return home for his adoptive mother’s funeral, managed to spot spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) in the crowd, and once he freed Bix (Adria Arjona) from captivity and...
- 11/23/2022
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Andor” Season 1 starts and ends with Ferrix.
Cassian Andor’s (Diego Luna) adopted home planet is where his journey began, as “a nobody…who’s fucked it all up.” The Season 1 finale, written by Tony Gilroy and directed by Benjamin Caron, covers the funeral proceedings of Cassian’s mother figure Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw), as all the characters converge on what they know will be a pivotal moment.
It’s the first time everyone on “Andor” — with the minor exception of Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly), who has her own agenda and troubles brewing — is so singularly focused on the same thing for the same reason. Luthen (Stellan Skårsgard) and his rebels always had their missions, Syril (Kyle Soller) and Dedra (Denise Gough) had their own methods of enforcing Empiric agenda, and civilians steered clear of it all — including Cassian himself. He returns home knowing the risk and that there’s a target on his back,...
Cassian Andor’s (Diego Luna) adopted home planet is where his journey began, as “a nobody…who’s fucked it all up.” The Season 1 finale, written by Tony Gilroy and directed by Benjamin Caron, covers the funeral proceedings of Cassian’s mother figure Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw), as all the characters converge on what they know will be a pivotal moment.
It’s the first time everyone on “Andor” — with the minor exception of Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly), who has her own agenda and troubles brewing — is so singularly focused on the same thing for the same reason. Luthen (Stellan Skårsgard) and his rebels always had their missions, Syril (Kyle Soller) and Dedra (Denise Gough) had their own methods of enforcing Empiric agenda, and civilians steered clear of it all — including Cassian himself. He returns home knowing the risk and that there’s a target on his back,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
Warning: Contains spoilers for Andor: Season 1
“Faster, more intense!” That was always George Lucas’ direction to his actors while shooting Star Wars. When devising the narrative tone of his galaxy far, far away, he wanted pulp. He wanted adventure. He wanted energy. In his head, he saw a combination of propulsive TV serials, Flash Gordon space operatics, and epic samurai mythology, all told with the technical mastery of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Since no-one else quite got exactly what Lucas was going for with Star Wars until it arrived, it all came down to those three words to get the feeling across: Faster. More intense. That ethos has informed Star Wars stories ever since – whether chronicling the fall of the Republic, the raging of the Clone Wars, the battle for the Death Star plans, the reawakening of the Force, or the bond between a bounty hunter and his tiny green surrogate-son,...
“Faster, more intense!” That was always George Lucas’ direction to his actors while shooting Star Wars. When devising the narrative tone of his galaxy far, far away, he wanted pulp. He wanted adventure. He wanted energy. In his head, he saw a combination of propulsive TV serials, Flash Gordon space operatics, and epic samurai mythology, all told with the technical mastery of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Since no-one else quite got exactly what Lucas was going for with Star Wars until it arrived, it all came down to those three words to get the feeling across: Faster. More intense. That ethos has informed Star Wars stories ever since – whether chronicling the fall of the Republic, the raging of the Clone Wars, the battle for the Death Star plans, the reawakening of the Force, or the bond between a bounty hunter and his tiny green surrogate-son,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - TV
It was all leading to this. Throughout season 1 of "Andor," creator Tony Gilroy and his team of writers and directors have intricately weaved a tale of rebellion and revolution right alongside an origin story for Diego Luna's Cassian Andor — one that few fans ever thought would feel necessary, despite being introduced as one of the most fascinating (and mystifying) characters in 2016's "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story." But rather than deliver yet another formless lump of "content" that hit all the familiar narrative beats without ever giving us anything new, this prequel series took the radical approach of having something meaningful on its mind at all times. In effect, "Andor" pushed the boundaries of what "Star Wars" can truly be ... when placed in the hands of committed filmmakers with the right priorities, that is.
The season 1 finale, titled "Rix Road," ultimately proved to be a microcosm of the...
The season 1 finale, titled "Rix Road," ultimately proved to be a microcosm of the...
- 11/23/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
The Disney+ Star Wars series Andor just had its finale, and now the season can be viewed as a whole. The show, which served as a prequel to the 2016 Star Wars spin-off, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, received a 93 on Rotten Tomatoes as well as an 83 audience score. Fans and critics alike praised the show for being unique to the franchise without having to rely on nostalgia and fan service to tell a self-contained story.
According to metrics, the show trailed behind other Star Wars series, such as The Mandolorian, according to the Nielson’s streaming ratings. The viewership, although lacking, still garnered enough to earn the series into the top 10 most-watched streaming shows during its entire run. The lackluster numbers are likely why Disney is giving the show an extra push by making episodes available on broadcast television that can be viewed by non-subscribers.
For those who are interested,...
According to metrics, the show trailed behind other Star Wars series, such as The Mandolorian, according to the Nielson’s streaming ratings. The viewership, although lacking, still garnered enough to earn the series into the top 10 most-watched streaming shows during its entire run. The lackluster numbers are likely why Disney is giving the show an extra push by making episodes available on broadcast television that can be viewed by non-subscribers.
For those who are interested,...
- 11/23/2022
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
There will be spoilers for "Andor" Episode Xii - "Rix Road"
"Andor" closes its first season strong with "Rix Road," the twelfth episode from Tony Gilroy and team, building on the framework of the funeral for Maarva (Fiona Shaw). Just about everyone heads to Ferrix, either returning or coming for the first time, to fulfill their own goals and ends. Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) heads to Ferrix to capture Cassian in a bid to learn the identity of Axis — the man in charge of the rebel activity she hopes to quash. Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) join Sinta (Varada Sethu) on Ferrix so they can kill Cassian Andor to prevent the Empire from getting any more information about the nascent rebellion. Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) and Sergeant Mosk (Alex Ferns) head to the funeral in the hopes of bringing Cassian to Justice.
And, of course, Cassian...
"Andor" closes its first season strong with "Rix Road," the twelfth episode from Tony Gilroy and team, building on the framework of the funeral for Maarva (Fiona Shaw). Just about everyone heads to Ferrix, either returning or coming for the first time, to fulfill their own goals and ends. Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) heads to Ferrix to capture Cassian in a bid to learn the identity of Axis — the man in charge of the rebel activity she hopes to quash. Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) join Sinta (Varada Sethu) on Ferrix so they can kill Cassian Andor to prevent the Empire from getting any more information about the nascent rebellion. Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) and Sergeant Mosk (Alex Ferns) head to the funeral in the hopes of bringing Cassian to Justice.
And, of course, Cassian...
- 11/23/2022
- by Bryan Young
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the entire first season of Andor, which is streaming now on Disney+.
A lot of memorable things happen in the Andor Season One finale. Marva (Fiona Shaw) digitally rises from the dead, as her impassioned, pre-recorded funeral speech inspires the people of Ferrix to rise up against their Imperial oppressors. The riot that ensues is, like so much of Andor, visceral and tactile in a way that very little of Star Wars has been since the original trilogy. At one point, disgraced ex-security guard Syril...
A lot of memorable things happen in the Andor Season One finale. Marva (Fiona Shaw) digitally rises from the dead, as her impassioned, pre-recorded funeral speech inspires the people of Ferrix to rise up against their Imperial oppressors. The riot that ensues is, like so much of Andor, visceral and tactile in a way that very little of Star Wars has been since the original trilogy. At one point, disgraced ex-security guard Syril...
- 11/23/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
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Denise Gough took it as a sign.
The Irish actor had just found out that the pilot for Bloodmoon, the Game of Thrones spinoff set 8,000 years before the original series, in which Gough starred alongside Naomi Watts, had been canceled. The show they had made would never be seen. HBO, going back to the drawing board, would eventually return with that other Got series, House of the Dragon.
For Gough, it looked like fate. After successful excursions into video game voiceovers — Mass Effect: Andromeda, The Witcher 3 — film (Juliet, Naked, Colette) and TV (Guerrilla, Paula) — she decided to return to her first love, theater.
“At that moment I thought: Ok, alright; obviously my fate is not to work on that sort of thing,” Gough said, speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the recent Lucca Comics and Games convention. “I wanted to return to theater,...
Denise Gough took it as a sign.
The Irish actor had just found out that the pilot for Bloodmoon, the Game of Thrones spinoff set 8,000 years before the original series, in which Gough starred alongside Naomi Watts, had been canceled. The show they had made would never be seen. HBO, going back to the drawing board, would eventually return with that other Got series, House of the Dragon.
For Gough, it looked like fate. After successful excursions into video game voiceovers — Mass Effect: Andromeda, The Witcher 3 — film (Juliet, Naked, Colette) and TV (Guerrilla, Paula) — she decided to return to her first love, theater.
“At that moment I thought: Ok, alright; obviously my fate is not to work on that sort of thing,” Gough said, speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the recent Lucca Comics and Games convention. “I wanted to return to theater,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Gianmaria Tammaro
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Throughout each episode of "Andor" to this point, the Tony Gilroy-created series has taken pains to set itself apart from the previous installments of Disney-owned "Star Wars" that have come before. As established in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," the protagonist Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is far different than any other Rebel we've yet seen. The central story unfolds in a way that puts story and character first -- not Easter eggs, cross-pollinating cameos, and other types of fan-service. And in terms of villains, there might not be a single other figure in canon who can rival the terrifying, methodical, and relentless fanaticism of Syril Karn.
Portrayed brilliantly (and chillingly) by the always thoughtful actor Kyle Soller, Syril has undergone an oddly compelling arc from a jumped-up security goon to a pathetic wretch quietly enduring his mother's icy disapproval to an obsessive true believer in the Empire's authoritarian cause.
Portrayed brilliantly (and chillingly) by the always thoughtful actor Kyle Soller, Syril has undergone an oddly compelling arc from a jumped-up security goon to a pathetic wretch quietly enduring his mother's icy disapproval to an obsessive true believer in the Empire's authoritarian cause.
- 11/17/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Spoiler alert: Cassian Andor dies at the end of "Rogue One." Okay, on a more serious note, there are also spoilers for "Andor" in the following article.
If it weren't for the involvement of filmmaker Tony Gilroy, the director of the brilliant "Michael Clayton" and the last-minute addition who helped rewrite "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" and bring it across the finish line, excitement for "Andor" might've been at an all-time low upon its original announcement. A prequel series telling the origin story of a somewhat cobbled-together character from a relatively divisive prequel film? Thankfully, many of the doubters (me included!) have been proven completely wrong in the time since, quickly falling head over heels for the impressive story about Diego Luna's Cassian Andor rising from a self-absorbed and undependable shady figure to a still-morally grey Rebel officer who will one day be willing to lay his life down for the cause.
If it weren't for the involvement of filmmaker Tony Gilroy, the director of the brilliant "Michael Clayton" and the last-minute addition who helped rewrite "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" and bring it across the finish line, excitement for "Andor" might've been at an all-time low upon its original announcement. A prequel series telling the origin story of a somewhat cobbled-together character from a relatively divisive prequel film? Thankfully, many of the doubters (me included!) have been proven completely wrong in the time since, quickly falling head over heels for the impressive story about Diego Luna's Cassian Andor rising from a self-absorbed and undependable shady figure to a still-morally grey Rebel officer who will one day be willing to lay his life down for the cause.
- 11/17/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Bespin, Outer Rim — Star Wars fans across the globe concurred on Wednesday that the 11th episode of Andor was the Disney+ series’ “best one yet, dude,” due to its inclusion of a way-cool space battle and rubbery aliens that spoke funny.
“Um, best Andor episode ever!” said Dale Wilhoit, president of the long-dormant Sweattoc (Star Wars Enthusiasts Against Taxation-Themed Opening Crawls), in a phone interview with TVLine. “After all these weeks of deftly exploring class solidarity, colonialism and the slow but steady rise of fascism, wow, did you see how the Fondor’s laser thing sliced that Tie fighter in half?...
“Um, best Andor episode ever!” said Dale Wilhoit, president of the long-dormant Sweattoc (Star Wars Enthusiasts Against Taxation-Themed Opening Crawls), in a phone interview with TVLine. “After all these weeks of deftly exploring class solidarity, colonialism and the slow but steady rise of fascism, wow, did you see how the Fondor’s laser thing sliced that Tie fighter in half?...
- 11/17/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
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The lasting image of this year’s Lucca Comics and Games convention is a shot of director Tim Burton, waving to a seemingly unending crowd from a balcony in the historic center of this medieval Tuscany town.
That one shot represents how Lucca has evolved from a tiny, hyper-localized convention for comic and game fans into one of the most important pop culture events on the international calendar.
Europe’s largest comics festival (and the world’s number two, larger than San Diego’s Comic-Con and just behind Japan’s Comiket), Lucca Comics and Games has become a hub for the film, TV and games industries, which arrived in force at Lucca 2022, the first proper in-person event since 2019 (last year’s Lucca was in-person but with strict limits on capacity, due to Covid). All of them were pitching to the same 320,000 fans crammed into this historic location,...
The lasting image of this year’s Lucca Comics and Games convention is a shot of director Tim Burton, waving to a seemingly unending crowd from a balcony in the historic center of this medieval Tuscany town.
That one shot represents how Lucca has evolved from a tiny, hyper-localized convention for comic and game fans into one of the most important pop culture events on the international calendar.
Europe’s largest comics festival (and the world’s number two, larger than San Diego’s Comic-Con and just behind Japan’s Comiket), Lucca Comics and Games has become a hub for the film, TV and games industries, which arrived in force at Lucca 2022, the first proper in-person event since 2019 (last year’s Lucca was in-person but with strict limits on capacity, due to Covid). All of them were pitching to the same 320,000 fans crammed into this historic location,...
- 11/15/2022
- by Gianmaria Tammaro
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the lead-up to the upcoming “Andor” finale on Disney+, The Walt Disney Company will air the first two episodes of the series across networks including ABC, FX and Freeform, and also make it available to view on sister streamer Hulu.
“Andor” episodes “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me” will be made available on the following schedule across the Thanksgiving holiday, with Hulu offering an extended streaming window:
ABC: Wednesday November 23, 9 p.m. Et FX: Thursday, November 24, 9 p.m. Et Freeform: Friday, November 25, 9 p.m. Et Hulu: Available from November 23 through December 7
The two-episode finale for the Disney+ “Star Wars” series, which stars Diego Luna as Cassian Andor, premieres on Wednesday, November 23.
Additional cast members for the series include Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Fiona Shaw, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis. The executive producers are Kathleen Kennedy, Tony Gilroy, Sanne Wohlenberg, Luna and Michelle Rejwan.
“Andor” episodes “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me” will be made available on the following schedule across the Thanksgiving holiday, with Hulu offering an extended streaming window:
ABC: Wednesday November 23, 9 p.m. Et FX: Thursday, November 24, 9 p.m. Et Freeform: Friday, November 25, 9 p.m. Et Hulu: Available from November 23 through December 7
The two-episode finale for the Disney+ “Star Wars” series, which stars Diego Luna as Cassian Andor, premieres on Wednesday, November 23.
Additional cast members for the series include Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Fiona Shaw, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis. The executive producers are Kathleen Kennedy, Tony Gilroy, Sanne Wohlenberg, Luna and Michelle Rejwan.
- 11/15/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
The finale for Star Wars: Andor is almost here, and several networks are looking to help celebrate the success of the critically acclaimed Disney+ series. This Thanksgiving holiday, the first two episodes of Andor will come to ABC, FX, Freeform, and Hulu.
Star Wars: Andor episodes “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me” will be made available on the following schedule over the Thanksgiving holiday, with Hulu offering an extended streaming window:
ABC: Wednesday, November 23, 9-10:30 pm Et/Pt
FX: Thursday, November 24, 9-10:30 pm Et/Pt
Freeform: Friday, November 25, 9-10:30 pm Et/Pt
Hulu: Available from November 23 through December 7
The Star Wars: Andor series – set five years before the events of Rogue One – focuses on Cassian Andor and his journey toward becoming a rebel hero. The tale is set against the backdrop of a burgeoning rebellion against a ruthless Empire, where people and planets are drawn into a...
Star Wars: Andor episodes “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me” will be made available on the following schedule over the Thanksgiving holiday, with Hulu offering an extended streaming window:
ABC: Wednesday, November 23, 9-10:30 pm Et/Pt
FX: Thursday, November 24, 9-10:30 pm Et/Pt
Freeform: Friday, November 25, 9-10:30 pm Et/Pt
Hulu: Available from November 23 through December 7
The Star Wars: Andor series – set five years before the events of Rogue One – focuses on Cassian Andor and his journey toward becoming a rebel hero. The tale is set against the backdrop of a burgeoning rebellion against a ruthless Empire, where people and planets are drawn into a...
- 11/14/2022
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Cassian Andor is leaving Disney+ behind temporarily.
Disney revealed Monday that the first two episodes would expand to other outlets.
ABC, FX, Freeform, and Hulu will be the lucky places to catch up with the Star Wars Rogue One prequel.
Here is the rollout plan:
Wednesday, November 23: 9-10:30 pm Et on ABC
Wednesday, November 23 through Wednesday, December 7: Available to stream on Hulu
Thursday, November 24: 9-10:30 pm Et on FX
Friday, November 25: 9-10:30 pm Et on Freeform
"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 logline for Andor teases.
"The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved."
"It’s an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue where Cassian will embark on the...
Disney revealed Monday that the first two episodes would expand to other outlets.
ABC, FX, Freeform, and Hulu will be the lucky places to catch up with the Star Wars Rogue One prequel.
Here is the rollout plan:
Wednesday, November 23: 9-10:30 pm Et on ABC
Wednesday, November 23 through Wednesday, December 7: Available to stream on Hulu
Thursday, November 24: 9-10:30 pm Et on FX
Friday, November 25: 9-10:30 pm Et on Freeform
"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 logline for Andor teases.
"The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved."
"It’s an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue where Cassian will embark on the...
- 11/14/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Disney+’s Andor is getting a cross-company push. The first two episodes of the Star Wars prequel series will air across Disney’s distribution platforms including ABC, FX, Freeform and Hulu over the Thanksgiving holiday, coinciding with the Season 1 finale on the streamer.
Andor episodes “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me” will be available on ABC, Wednesday, November 23; on FX, Thursday, November 24 and on Freeform Friday, November 25, all airing from 9-10:30 pm. It will be available on Hulu from November 23 through December 7.
The first 10 episodes of Andor, from Lucasfilm, is streaming on Disney+, with Episode 12, the finale, premiering Wednesday, November 23.
Andor, set five years before the events of Rogue One, focuses on Cassian Andor and his journey toward becoming a rebel hero. The tale is set against the backdrop of a burgeoning rebellion against a ruthless Empire, where people and planets are drawn into a conflict that will have far-reaching effects across the galaxy.
Andor episodes “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me” will be available on ABC, Wednesday, November 23; on FX, Thursday, November 24 and on Freeform Friday, November 25, all airing from 9-10:30 pm. It will be available on Hulu from November 23 through December 7.
The first 10 episodes of Andor, from Lucasfilm, is streaming on Disney+, with Episode 12, the finale, premiering Wednesday, November 23.
Andor, set five years before the events of Rogue One, focuses on Cassian Andor and his journey toward becoming a rebel hero. The tale is set against the backdrop of a burgeoning rebellion against a ruthless Empire, where people and planets are drawn into a conflict that will have far-reaching effects across the galaxy.
- 11/14/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Non-Disney+ subscribers who’d like to sample Andor are in for a holiday treat.
ABC, FX and Freeform will air the first two episodes of Disney+’s latest Star Wars series throughout the week of Thanksgiving, with an extended streaming window to be available on Hulu, as well. Here’s the full schedule:
More from TVLinePerformer of the Week: Andor's Andy SerkisAndor Video: Thrilling Episode 10 Showed You 'How Far Cassian Is Willing to Go to Survive,' Says Diego LunaWillow Proposes a Daring Quest in First Sneak Peek From Disney+ Series
* Wednesday, Nov. 23: 9-10:30 pm Et on ABC
* Wednesday,...
ABC, FX and Freeform will air the first two episodes of Disney+’s latest Star Wars series throughout the week of Thanksgiving, with an extended streaming window to be available on Hulu, as well. Here’s the full schedule:
More from TVLinePerformer of the Week: Andor's Andy SerkisAndor Video: Thrilling Episode 10 Showed You 'How Far Cassian Is Willing to Go to Survive,' Says Diego LunaWillow Proposes a Daring Quest in First Sneak Peek From Disney+ Series
* Wednesday, Nov. 23: 9-10:30 pm Et on ABC
* Wednesday,...
- 11/14/2022
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
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