Disney’s Andor collection is like Higher Name Saul in a single essential manner: we all know precisely the place that character finally ends up, and that casts a shadow over the entire collection, telling us how lengthy it may go and the place the story is main us. Andor is heading towards Rogue One and Cassian Andor’s choice to offer all of it for the Rise up, however there’s nonetheless extra to do, together with heading to an iconic Star Wars location, creator Tony Gilroy advised Collider.
Gilroy stated that for Andor Season 2, he is bringing again Beau Willimon and brother Dan Gilroy as writers, and that they’re going to be joined by Tom Bissell (Lead author on Gears of Warfare 4 and Gears of Warfare 5) as properly.
“Tom Bissell is de facto cool and a extremely, actually attention-grabbing, versatile, actually good author,” Gilroy stated earlier than revealing the place Andor will head subsequent. “[He’s] additionally a really, very, very huge Star Wars fan, which we actually wished to verify we had one other professional as a result of we’re going into Rogue [One], and we will Yavin, after which we’re going into locations that we ultimately want to essentially weave our manner again to the supply. So Tom got here in and he is been nice; so he is obtained some episodes, too.”
By Yavin, we can probably assume that Gilroy is speaking about Yavin IV, the jungle moon of Yavin Prime, which served as a serious base for the Insurgent Alliance up via the tip of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. That is the place Luke took off from to affix the Battle of Yavin on the Loss of life Star. With Luke’s assist, the Rebels destroyed the Loss of life Star and saved Yavin IV. The heroes obtained their medals (besides Chewie), after which it was off to the ice planet Hoth to determine a more moderen, colder headquarters. Yavin IV additionally confirmed up in 2016’s Rogue One, the direct prequel to A New Hope. Going to Yavin IV will hyperlink Andor himself but extra deeply to the Rise up, whereas additionally doing what Star Wars likes to do submit Revenge of the Sith–go again to the locations the place all of the cool stuff occurred or is about to occur.
We do not but know when Andor Season 2 will premiere, however this may give us one thing to chew on till then.
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