Lucasfilm is finally ready to give us a look at the long awaited second season of Andor, and it looks like Cassian (Diego Luna) and the rebel alliance are ready to take the fight to the Empire in this Rogue One prequel series.
In the new trailer, Cassian becomes an increasingly major player in what will become the Rebel Alliance. There isn’t going to be a Season 3, as this season wraps up on the very eve of Rogue One‘s opening, bringing his revolutionary journey full circle.
We also get to see plenty of intriguing glimpses throughout here for Andor‘s other players: Mon Mothma seems to be heading back home to get snarled up in Chandrila’s marital traditions after making a proverbial deal with the devil over her daughter’s future in season 1. There’s a lot of footage of Saw Gerrera’s growing partisan front taking the fight to the Empire, but only a few shots of Luthen, and whatever plans he has in shaping the rebellion to come.
Other familiar faces from Rogue One include Ben Mendelsohn and Alan Tudyk, reprising their roles as Director Orson Krennic and K-2S0, respectively. Dedra Meero and Syril Karn are preparing for whatever new nonsense the Imperials plan to bring.
There are a lot of bits and pieces here, but today the studio confirmed that the new 12-episode season will release as a series of three-episode chapters each week, rather than one at a time. So, you can binge watch it, but only in reasonably healthy chunks. Works for me. I just wish they hadn’t taken a hard left turn on the trailer music, which frankly leaves me cold. It completely breaks the setting to have modern edge pop over it, or whatever that is.
The first three episodes of Andor will release on April 22, with subsequent chapter drops releasing on Disney+ for the next three weeks after that.
