“Star Wars” followers want this. So badly.
Although “Skeleton Crew” was warmly acquired by a lot of the fanbase, there hasn’t been an all-out rousing success for the galaxy far, far-off franchise on Disney+ because the first season of “Andor” in 2022. (As a lot as we liked “The Acolyte,” and need it had continued, we actually see its flaws too.)
Now the “Andor” Season 2 trailer is right here, displaying us probably the most in depth look but on the new episodes, the primary three of which drops April 22 on Disney+.
This author says “Yippee!” like Anakin Skywalker, as a result of is there ever numerous goodness right here. Before everything: A ton of connections to 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars” story, which launched Diego Luna‘s Cassian Andor character. There’s Forest Whitaker as partisan chief Noticed Gerrera, Ben Mendelsohn as Demise Star venture mastermind Orson Krennic, and Alan Tudyk’s beloved droid, Ok-2SO.
If this appears quite a bit like “Rogue One,” it’s as a result of “Andor” Season 2 will use its 12 episodes to take us as much as the occasions of that movie beginning at about 4 years out from the place the film begins.
“One of many nice thrills of creating ‘Andor’ is the size of the story and the variety of characters we’re capable of meet — unusual individuals, Imperial overlords, passionate revolutionaries,” creator and government producer Tony Gilroy mentioned in a press release. “They’re actual individuals making epic choices, all of them staring down questions with terrifying penalties. Cassian’s journey is the soul and backbone of our story, however it’s the choir that makes the present. I’m so excited for audiences to see the place we go in Season 2.”
And characters followers liked from the primary season are returning as nicely, together with Kyle Soller as Imperial true believer Syril Karn, Stellan Skarsgard as insurgent chief Luthen Rael, Denise Gough as by-the-book Imperial intelligence officer Dedra Meero, and Kathryn Hahn as Eedy, Syril’s mom (you’ll bear in mind her because the witches in “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and as a saucy madam in “Poor Issues”). Additionally again is Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma, the longer term chief of the Revolt.
What’s attention-grabbing about this trailer is its inclusion of critics’ reward for the primary season — it appears nearly a tacit acknowledgment that “Star Wars” spinoffs haven’t been very nicely acquired for a while by even skilled critics (not to mention the legion of YouTube fan commentators whose bilious response to something “Star Wars” is virtually a given now). And as a tone setter, the trailer options Steve Earle’s 2004 track “The Revolution Begins Now.” All of which is to say, this isn’t the “Star Wars” you’re used to, a minimum of the previous few years — however it has numerous one of the best components of the “Star Wars” you’re keen on.
This geek will make one little bit of idle hypothesis right here: That grassland planet that’s proven right here? Betting that that’s Dantooine, beforehand established as a prairie planet… and any insurgent exercise there in the course of the occasions of this present would make it make that rather more sense why Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin thought it was believable the insurgent base is perhaps there in “A New Hope.”
Watch the trailer beneath. The 12 episodes of “Andor” Season 2 will drop in three episode installments throughout 4 weeks beginning April 22.