2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story might have proven what occurred within the remaining days of Cassian Andor’s life, however it wouldn’t be the final we’d see of him in a galaxy far, distant. In late 2022, Andor premiered to Disney+ subscribers, exhibiting how Diego Luna’s character took his first steps in direction of the Insurrection 5 years forward of stealing the Demise Star Plans with Jyn Erso. We all know that Andor Season 2 will cowl the remaining 4 years of Cassian’s life between Season 1 and Rogue One, however now phrase’s are available in on the place issues at the moment stand with the present within the midst of the strikes.
The Writers Guild of America strike has been occurring since Might 2, and the SAG-AFTRA strike started on July 14. In line with Deadline, it’s the latter that’s impacted Andor, as its shoot in the UK has been quickly paused, although the forged and crew had been apparently simply weeks away from wrapping up. Nevertheless, this doesn’t imply the complete Andor manufacturing has been shut down. This step within the inventive course of will proceed at Pinewood Studios with out its SAG-AFTRA members, as an alternative counting on actors who fall below agreements with Fairness, the British appearing union. Moreover, Fairness performers have supposedly been instructed that they’ll be sued for breach of contract in the event that they stroll off in assist their SAG-AFTRA counterparts.
Andor Season 2 started filming on November 21, 2022, simply two months after the present’s first episode dropped on Disney+. Six months into principal pictures, and every week after the writers strike started, showrunner Tony Gilroy introduced that not solely had he “ discontinued all writing and writing-related work” on the present previous to midnight, Might 1, however he “would even be ceasing all non-writing producing features.” Now with the actors strike nicely underway, Disney and Lucasfilm try to get as a lot accomplished for Andor that doesn’t require any SAG-AFTRA members, however there’s solely a lot that might be completed till manufacturing as an entire might want to to close down. From there, it’s unclear when the Star Wars present will be capable of end the rest of filming since similar to with the writers strike, there’s no schedule on when the actors strike will finish.
The Andor Season 1 ending confirmed Cassian discovering Stellan Skarsgård’s Luthen Rael and giving him certainly one of two selections: to both kill him or take him in to the Insurrection. Naturally we all know what Luthen decides to do, so Season 2 will cowl the years Cassian was an official Insurgent, with the ultimate three episodes exhibiting what he was doing within the instant days previous to Rogue One. Together with Diego Luna and Skarsgård reprising their roles, the subsequent season’s returning actors embody Genevieve O’Reilly, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Faye Marsay, Varada Sethu and Elizabeth Dulau.
Andor Season 2 is at the moment aiming for an August 2024 launch, however relying on how lengthy the actors strike goes, a delay might in the end be mandatory. We’ll let if that finally ends up being the case, however till then, preserve visiting us for extra information on different upcoming Star Wars films and TV reveals, and head to Disney+ in you’re concerned with watching the Star Wars films so as or viewing the platform’s unique small display content material for the franchise.
