Andor Season 2 is subsequent on the slate of upcoming Star Wars motion pictures and TV exhibits, arriving roughly two and a half years after Season 1’s critically acclaimed run. Andor was additionally the fourth live-action Star Wars TV present to premiere to Disney+ subscription-holders, with The Mandalorian kicking off this period again in 2019. Nicely, with only a couple weeks to go till Andor Season 2 premieres on the 2025 TV schedule, showrunner Tony Gilroy took a while to provide The Mandalorian its flowers whereas discussing his personal Star Wars sequence’ success.
Whereas The Mandalorian and Andor are unquestionably fairly completely different tonally, with the previous interesting to the Star Wars franchise’s all-ages fanbase and the latter being geared in the direction of older followers, Gilroy acknowledged to Empire that Andor wouldn’t exist had The Mandalorian not been so well-liked, saying:
The success of The Mandalorian gave us the platform to leap off. Their success is what would gas the entire thing. I imply, no Child Yoda, no Andor. Significantly. Don’t assume that we don’t know that.
Over 5 years later, I can nonetheless bear in mind social media blowing up over the reveal of the character we now know as Grogu on the finish of The Mandalorian’s first episode. Child Yoda shortly grew to become a popular culture sensation, and never solely did two extra seasons of The Mandalorian comply with, we even have the film The Mandalorian & Grogu to sit up for subsequent 12 months. Granted, Andor was already properly into improvement earlier than The Mandalorian premiered, however its sturdy begin helped with boosting the Rogue One prequel’s possibilities of success.
Throughout this interview, Tony Gilroy additionally talked about {that a} sequence like Andor “won’t ever occur once more,” with The Mandalorian enjoying a task in guaranteeing this story following Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor got here to life in the best way that it did. Because the showrunner put it:
Not as a result of we’re so nice, however as a result of no-one’s ever gonna begin a present on this scale once more, and shoot it virtually, and have the sources and the safety to do one thing like this. … We have been protected all the best way down the road. Kathy [Kennedy] protected us. Lucasfilm protected us. Bob Iger protected us. The viewers protected us. The Mandalorian protected us. We had all these individuals on the market backing our play.
Andor Season 1 passed off 5 years earlier than the occasions of Rogue One, chronicling how the title protagonist went from a cynical thief and scavenger to a Insurrection recruit. Season 2 covers the remaining 4 years main as much as the 2016 Star Wars film, with three episodes being launched weekly. Though Tony Gilroy initially conceived the present to run 5 seasons, he realized in the course of capturing Season 1 that this wouldn’t be possible for a number of causes. So the two-season run was “born out of desperation,” and if Gilroy is certainly right, we’ll by no means see a present like this in a galaxy far, distant once more.
Andor Season 2’s first three episodes drop Tuesday, April 22 on Disney+, and The Mandalorian & Grogu follows on Might 22, 2026. The one different live-action Star Wars TV present on the horizon is Ahsoka Season 2, however we’ll let you already know right here on CinemaBlend if that modifications.