New Andor Special Look Trailer

Andor just got another Special Look trailer on Disney+. The featurette gives fans of the series another glimpse of what to expect from Season 2. The seeds of rebellion are bearing fruit and the creative team behind the show reveal why that has been the key to their success.

Two weeks ago, audiences were treated to a first, official look at the second and final season of Andor. Featured were heart-stomping action set pieces and returning favorites like Forest Whitaker’s Saw Gerrera. There was also another tease of the season’s confirmed connection to Rogue One with the appearance of Ben Mendelsohn’s Director Krennic, who stood menacingly in front of an unfinished Death Star. Although only an occasional line was sprinkled in here and there, the trailer was underpinned with appropriately themed music: “The Revolution Starts Now” by Steve Earle. It injected a well-needed dose of excitement into the Star Wars fandom.

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Creator-writer and producer of Andor Tony Gilroy, as well as several other actors, have now had the chance to give their thoughts and opinions on the new season. This second installment boasts to be far grander and more intense than its predecessor, with higher stakes than ever before. Genevieve O’Reilly, Mon Mothma herself, captured the larger scale of the project succinctly:

“If season one laid the track, then season two is the juggernaut.”

For what was supposed to be one of Star Wars’ smaller Disney+ releases, this Special Look demonstrates just how ambitious and expansive this show has become off the back of Season 1’s critical success. Andor previously earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series in 2023, and if the nail-bitting scenes released so far are any indication, the show is likely to sweep later this year. It’s not just Andor’s stunning visual effects or large set pieces that are driving the series forward. Gilroy highlighted the advantages and difficulties of having so many well-developed characters with their own stories to tell:

“These 12 episodes are gonna take us over the next four years, into Rogue One. The complexity of the show, the possibilities of the show. It has to be all in.”

Four years is a long time span to condense into just twelve episodes, and it’s evident that every hour of television is going to be a tense joyride of epic proportions, packing in multiple twists and turns. It’s unclear whether some of the programs’ favorite original characters, like Dedra Meero (Denise Gough), Syril Karn (Kyle Sollar), or Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) will make it to the end finale alive. Since none of them make an appearance in Rogue One, or any other part of the Star Wars canon, it’s safe to assume that their stories may not have a happy ending. But even if this is to be their end, the conclusion to all of their story arcs will certainly be unmissable.

Andor Understands Star Wars’ Enduring Legacy

Even during the film franchises’ darkest and weakest years, when Attack of the Clones’ romantic dialogue cringed global audiences, and The Last Jedi divided hardcore fans, the values of hope, freedom, and the struggle to achieve those precious ideals have stood the test of time. It’s about rebellion overcoming empire, democracy overcoming tyranny. That’s why Andor’s message is perhaps the most potent out of all the post-George Lucas era Star Wars media. It recaptures a galaxy on the edge of total subjugation, but it is only because of that repression that the fire of rebellion shines brighter than ever. Gilroy is aware of how invaluable a commodity this belief is and understands its fundamentals:

“Revolutionary movements are spontaneously happening all over the galaxy. How those come together is the stuff of our story.”

That is an incredible hook for Season 2. While fans of the animated show Star Wars: Rebels will already have seen how the Rebellion forms from the perspective of one team, Andor has the privilege and heavy burden of demonstrating how a revolution begins from scratch on a galactic scale. Given the show’s formidable message during Maarva Andor’s (Fiona Shaw) speech in Season 1’s “Rix Road”, Gilory clearly believes that the fight resides innately within people, a feeling that can erupt at any time. Maarva accuses Ferix, her home world, of “sleeping“. That the Empire didn’t only arise because of the fall of the Jedi Order or Emperor Palpatine’s hostile takeover, but because the citizens of planets just like Ferix “Let it grow … The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness. It is never more alive than when we sleep.” Now, in Season 2, the galaxy isn’t just awake, it’s standing up for itself, one random spark of courage at a time.

Other cast members, like Diego Luna, playing the lead character of Cassian Andor, weighed in to praise the crew for producing this cutting-edge sci-fi drama: “Everyone does their homework. Everyone takes the time, and you can tell.” Adria Arjona also reemphasized the show’s quality of care towards its characters and the human experience it portrays: “It’s human. It’s incredibly truthful. And it just happens to be in a galaxy far, far away.”

A Horrifying Chapter In The Empire’s History May Change Mon Mothma Forever

Most of the first Official Trailer and the Special Look have both included scenes of a major protest that Season 2 seems to be building up to. It has been rumored that this could be one of the darkest moments in the Empire’s long history of violence and oppression. The Ghorman Massacre was originally an event from Legends, and it is nothing short of horrific. In the year 2 BBY (two years before Luke blows up the Death Star in the Battle of Yavin), a group of peaceful Ghorman protesters decide to block a landing zone reserved for Grand Moff Tarkin’s shuttle. The architect of some of the Empire’s worst atrocities lands on the protesters without warning, killing them in the process, and it is implied that Emperor Palpatine sanctions the order.

In Star Wars canon, the official version is toned down, but still bleak. Imperial troops still open fire on the Ghorman protestors, and the massacre earns its place as one of the most devastating points before the rise of the Rebellion. If this takes place in Andor, Mon Mothma will most likely have to face the reality that peaceful negotiations and non-violent means are no longer an option. That a fully armed Rebellion may be the only hope to stop the ever-increasing totalitarian Empire.

Andor Season 2 is dropping on Disney+ this April 22nd.

Andor

Release Date

2022 – 2024

Network

Disney+

Showrunner

Tony Gilroy

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  Stellan Skarsgård

  Luthen Rael

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