New Andor Season 2 Featurette, TV Spot

Andor season 2 premieres this Tuesday with first three episodes being released on Disney+. Here is a brief featurette and TV spot for the season.

Andor Season 2 Official Trailer

With a little less than a month out from the release of the second and final season of Andor, here is the official trailer for the season. The series first three episodes will hit Disney+ on April 22.

Andor Season 1 Recap, Episodes on Hulu and YouTube

Andor Season 2 hits Disney+ on April 22 and Disney+ is beginning its prep. Below is a 14 minute recap of season one to help remind you of what came before. If need a reminder of where its going, that would be Star Wars: Rogue One. In addition Disney is making the full season of season 1 available on Hulu if want to catch up that way. Lastly, the first three episodes of season 1 of Andor is out on YouTube.

Andor Season 2 Special Look

Disney+ has posted a "special look" short video that is a combo of TV spot with a touch of behind the scenes as the cast talks about season 2 that will start streaming on April 22.

Andor Season 2 Trailer, Chapter Release Plan

Below is the first trailer for Andor's second and final season is coming to Disney+ starting April 22. The 12 episode season is getting a unique plan as it moves towards Star Wars: Rogue One. The story will have four chapters, each chapter being three episodes long with each chapter being released on Disney+ every Tuesday for four weeks in a row. This doesn't necessary mean that the story for that chapter will be three episodes long as some episodes are standalone.

Andor Season 2 Premieres April 22, 2025

Disney announced this weekend that Andor season 2 will premiere on Disney+ on April 22, 2025. The 12 episode will cover the remaining four years up until it reaches Rogue One events. 

D23 Expo Reveals Skeleton Crew, Lego Trailers and Other News

D23 Expo brought news of various Disney plans for the remainder of the year and next year. D23 stands for Disney 1923, the year of the companies founding. At their Disney Showcase, the Star Wars section brought news on Andor, The Mandalorian & Grogu movie and triailers for Skeleton Crew and Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy.

Starting with Andor, a quick behind the scenes video was shown for those at the Expo that including confirmation three Star Wars: Rogue One actors will appear in the season with Ben Mendelsohn as Director Krennic, Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera and Alan Tudyk voicing K-2SO. The second and last season "will follow Cassian over the period of four years as he grows into the hero we see make the ultimate sacrifice in Rogue One." No specific release date but assumed at some point in 2025.

New on The Mandalorian & Grogu was also light with director Jon Favreau and producer Dave Filoni introducing a quick video about the movie. Main news is filming has begun on the movie with goal of a 2026 release date, the Razorcrest returns, and Zeb Orrelios from Star Wars: Rebels will appear.

Below is the new trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew that has a very Goonies feel to it, complete with first ever look at what the suburbs of a planet. First two episodes will premiere on Disney+ on December 3rd.

Last bit of news is a four-part animated special "Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy" where a nerf-herder Sig Greebling accidently triggers an ancient Jedi artifact that reorders in the galaxy in weird ways. Multiple Star Wars alumni voice characters including Mark Hamill, Ahmed Best, Anthony Daniels and more. The mini-series will debut on September 13th on Disney+.

Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Set for 2024 Release

Looks like the wait for the second and final season of Andor is going to be longer then most expected. Star Wars Celebration 2023 has begun and it revealed that the season will not begin airing on Disney+ until August 2024. The series short description is summarized well by Gizmodo, saying "having set up different rebel factions and the key players in those groups, like Cassian, Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly), and Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård), season two can now show how those groups come together to form the Rebel Alliance."

Footage shown at Celebration teased the return of key characters, including Rebel cell members Vel Sartha and Luthen Rael (in and out of his disguise as an antiquities dealer), as well as Syril Karn, who appears to have gone up in the world, and been thrust into a higher class of Imperial citizenship. Scenes also showed Mon Mothma slowly building alliances, trying to bring her disparate senatorial and rebellious worlds together as dissent grows across the galaxy. Several shots showed a protest being policed by Stormtroopers, where violence breaks out with lots of explosions and lots of chaos. But at the heart of it all was footage of Cassian, both skulking through hallways and seemingly coming into his own as a Rebel spy. The trailer concluded with Luthen echoing his comment from season one—“Don’t you want to fight these bastards for real?”—over a shot of Cassian, dressed up in a fancy suit with his hair slicked back, in some kind of fancy bar.

Star Wars: Andor Now Streaming

Friedly reminder that the first three episodes of Star Wars: Andor is now up on Disney+. The series is set five years before Star Wars: Rogue One as follows Cassian Andor's adventures as a rebel spy. The 12 episode season will have a new episode drop each Wednesday morning.

Disney Convention Brings New Star Wars Trailers, News

Over the weekend, the D23 Expo was held that is essentially an official convention for all things Disney. The company used the occasion to show off upcoming film and TV projects across their entire slate including Star Wars, MCU and more.

The first video below is the final trailer for Star Wars: Andor that will start streaming on Disney+ starting September 21.  The second video is a teaser for season three of The Mandalorian that does not have a release date beyond being sometime in 2023. The last video is for Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi that are six shorts involving many known Jedi's at certain points in their history. No trailer yet but Star Wars: The Bad Batch season two will begin on January 4, 2023 for a 16 episode run.

On the news front, another member of Star Wars: Rebels is getting the live action treatment with Eman Esfandi (King Richard) joining the cast of Star Wars: Ahsoka as Ezra Bridger.  If interested in the MCU news click here. For MCU trailers, click here. Other Disney projects like Willow, click here. 

Star Wars: Andor Official Trailer, Delayed Release Date

 Disney+ has posted the first full trailer for Star Wars: Andor. It also announced that the series has been delayed three weeks from August 31 to September 21, 2022 and will debut with the first three episodes of the 12 episode season. The series will follow Cassian Andor about five years before the events of Rogue One along with Mon Mothma, the Republic senator that founded the Rebel Alliance.

Star Wars Celebration Convention Brings Updates on Star Wars Projects

This weekend Star Wars Celebration 2022 was held this weekend in Anaheim, California. With it came new trailers and updates on various Star Wars projects. The next few years, the Disney+ will become stuffed with TV shows from the franchise. Movie plans are in the works but the convention provided little information on that front. Without further ado, here is a quick summary of everything.

Star Wars: Andor - Below is the first teaser trailer for the series. The show is set to have 2 seasons of 12 episodes each. The first season begins five years before Rogue One and the shows course will follow the character over the five years right into his introduction in Rogue One. The first episode is set to premiere on August 31, 2022.


Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 3 - New season is currently set for a premiere in Feburary 2023. Carl Weather will return and will also direct an episode. Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) will return and appear in more episodes. Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) also has a role in the film. Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) also has a role, likely involving Din's ownership of the Darksaber. Really not much is known about the season except for this casting news as Disney remains tight lipped on all things plot about Star Wars.

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - New show announcement. The series will star Jude Law (Fantastic Beasts) and set during the same time period as The Mandalorian (so five or so years after Return of the Jedi). The all ages series will explore the galaxy from the perspective of lost 10 year olds trying to find their home. This is the series that a Vanity Fair article referred to as "galactic version of classic Amblin coming-of-age adventure films of the ’80s". The series will be headed by director Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home).

Star Wars: Ahsoka - The series is currently filming for a 2023 release. Brief footage was shown at the convention but not released to the public but it did confirm that Star Wars: Rebels character Sabine Wren will be in the series along with her droid Chopper. Sabine will be played by Natasha Liu Bordizzo.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 - Below is the teaser trailer for the second season of the series that will hit Disney+ on September 28, 2022.


Light & Magic - A six part documentary series about Industrial Light and Magic. If there is a breakthrough in special effects in the last 45 years, chances are ILM created it. Directed by screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back), the series will mostly focus on the companies work on the Star Wars franchise.

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures - New animated series set during the High Republic era (so hundred and more years before Phantom Menace). The series focuses on a group of Younglings under Master Yoda's tutilege as they learn how to help people at different locations throughout the galaxy. Series is aiming for a Spring 2023 release.

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - An animated anthology series of 6 episodes of around 15 minutes each that will be released in Fall 2022. The series will focus on different Star Wars characters with Ahsoka Tano, Count Dooku, and Liam Neeson voicing Qui-Gon Jinn.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - On the video game front, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting a sequel as follow the continuing adventures of Cal Kestis tries to protect Force sensitive children despite the Empire trying to hunt him down.


Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 - The anime series of short films from creators around the world will return in Spring 2023.

Willow - Not Star Wars news but still worth knowing. Below is the official teaser for the series that is a continuation of the classic film.


Indiana Jones 5 - Last but not least is a brief update on this movie. The movie remains set to come out on June 30, 2023 with James Mangold (Logan) directing the film instead of Steven Spielberg. Other than a rumor the plot will involve Nazis, nothing is known about the plot. All we currently have to go on is the image below.

Vanity Fair Article Outlines Future of Star Wars for TV and Film

Vanity Fair is providing a pretty good look Disney+ every expanding Star Wars TV universe. The article is worth reading for fans. Below if a a few highlights of note. 

TV Shows: 

- Obi-Wan Kenobi is out May 27 as Ewan McGregor reprises the role to protect Luke from an Inquistor that hunts down the Jedi and potential force users. 

- Andor, coming out late summer, will focus on the character from Star Wars: Rogue One along with Senator Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) who becomes the leader of the Rebels. 

 - The Mandalorian season 3 is aiming for late 2022 to early 2023 release date. 

 - Ahsoka is still in the works, no release date set but aiming for 2023 release. 

- The Acolyte is also planned, set about 100 years before The Phantom Menace. Set in the time of a "prosperous and seemingly peaceful era" at least on the surface. 

- "Grammar Rodeo", code name for untitled Star Wars series set in same period as The Mandalorian from director Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) and writer Chris Ford (Spider-Man: Homecoming), is described as "galactic version of classic Amblin coming-of-age adventure films of the ’80s." 

TV Shows Highlights: 

- Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been cast in Ahsoka in unnamed role. 

- Andor is described by lead Diego Luna as "a refugee story, with desperate people fleeing the Empire at the full force of its power." 

- Dave Filoni, who worked along side George Lucas and worked on all Star Wars cartoons, had added to the Mandalorian people that was different then The Mandalorian creator Jon Farveau was planning. The two worked together to merge their visions of the culture. 

- “I think people now look back and think it was like a slam dunk, but we were very cautious,” Filoni says of the Child. “The amount of measuring, especially in the first season, for how we were framing this kid took a lot of effort.” 

- Star Wars TV shows are filmed in studio space called The Volume (also called StageCraft), where large curved LED wall allows them to create whatever environment they need to create look as if filmed on location. Four Volumes now exist, three in LA, one in London and one in Vancouver. 

- Decision to add Darth Vader, played by Hayden Christensen, to Obi-Wan Kenobi wasn't decided until March 2020. Initial drafts of the show concept did not include him in large part because of their final confrontation in A New Hope. 

- The decision to cast Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka was influenced by fan art of her as the character. - Kathleen Kennedy on re-casting the core Star Wars cast, "There should be moments along the way when you learn things. Now it does seem so abundantly clear that we can’t do that." (Stupid lesson to take from the Solo film not doing well instead of recognizing it was a weak story that came out just a few months after audience divisive The Last Jedi.) 

Movies: 

- Untitled movie from director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnorok) and writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917) is first in new pipeline. No release date or other story details. 

- Rogue Squadron, from director Patty Jenkins, is still planned but that could be many years away. 

- Rian Johnson (The Last Jedi) was going to do a new trilogy but that is on hold due to his Netflix deal for the Knives Out franchise. (It is likely dead.) “I hesitate to use the word trilogies anymore because Star Wars is much more about persistent storytelling,” Kennedy says.

Disney Reveals 10 Star Wars Series in the Works, Rogue Squadron Movie

Today Disney held its annual investor conference. With the company as a whole shifting to a streaming model, that meant revealing their plans for 2021 and beyond across all their brands including Lucasfilm with Star Wars. The biggest bit of news is they have 10 Star Wars series that plan on creating over the next year or so. The release dates, what few there are, are pretty vague but plans are to start rolling things out likely in late 2021 and throughout 2022. 

Star Wars: 

Rogue Squadron 

Andor 

The Mandalorian Season 3 

Ahsoka

Rangers of the New Republic

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Lando

The Acolyte

The Bad Batch

Visions

Lucasfilm:

Indiana Jones 5

Willow

Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman 84) has been tapped to direct Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. In a tweet the director expressed the project is personal as she wants it to reflect her loss and love of her fighter pilot father by making the "greatest fighter pilot movie of all time." Rogue Squadron is the designation of the pilots that attacked the Death Star in The Battle of Yavin in Star Wars: A New Hope. Luke Skywalker is a founding member, first flight leader and the one who named the squadron using Jyd Erso from Star Wars: Rogue One as inspiration for their call sign (as depicted in Star Wars comics). In the now defunct Legacies/Extended Universe stories, Rogue Squadron continued on, members coming and going as the Resistence fought the Empire on multiple fronts. It later reformed during the age of the New Republic to fight new enemies. End result is the movie could pretty much be set at any time in Star Wars canon and use any old or new characters as it sees fit to tell its story. 

Speaking of Rogue One, the prequel movie will get its own prequel series of sorts with Andor. Diego Luna will reprise his character of Cassian Andor. The series will show the Rebellion spy doing his work before his job at some point before the movie as it will likely depict origins of the Rebellion. Below is a brief a "sizzle reel" for the series. 

The Mandalorian season 3 is expected to drop around Christmas time in 2021. It will also spin off two series Ahsoka and Rangers of the New Republic. Ahsoka will have Rosario Dawson return to the role with Disney saying its set "within the timeline of The Mandalorian." The assumption is it will continue to explore the characters search for Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars: Rebels.  Rangers of the New Republic will follow some of the "sheriff" type characters that have periodically helped The Mandalorian. Exactly who will be in the series was not revealed.

For years it was rumored that next non trilogy movie would be Obi-Wan. After Solo failed to perform, the movie was cancelled. But not the idea as Disney decided to shift to a series. That remains the case but now its been revealed that Hayden Christensen will return as Darth Vader for the series. The series itself will take place 10 years after the events of Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith. 

The details are light on Lando but Donald Glover reprise the role from Solo and likely will be set somewhere around that time period which is also after The Revenge of the Sith. Justin Simien (Dear White People) is set to create the series. 

According to Disney's tweet, "The Acolyte is a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic Era." The end of the High Republic era was depicted in Star Wars Episodes I to III but that era was around 1000 or so years old in time frame. Probably to give viewers landmarks, I wouldn't be surprised if the series is set a little bit before The Phantom Menace. 

With all the live action announcements, Disney has not forgotten the cartoon side of things that kept the Star Wars flame going for years between movies with Star Wars: The Bad Batch and Visions. Bad Batch is set after end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series. The Batch is a reference to the fact that during this time all soldiers were clones of Jango Fett, father of Boba Fett. From Disney: "Star Wars: The Bad Batch follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in “The Clone Wars”) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of Bad Batch—a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army—each possess a singular exceptional skill that makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew. In the post-Clone War era, they will take on daring mercenary missions as they struggle to stay afloat and find new purpose. This animated series will arrive exclusively on Disney+." Trailer for Bad Batch is below. 

Star Wars: Visions will be a series of "animated short films, celebrates Star Wars galaxy through the lends of the world's best Japanese anime creators. Coming in 2021 to Disney+" 

On a related note, Lucasfilm has other plans beyond Star Wars with Indiana Jones 5 going into production in 2021 for a July 2022 release date with James Mangold (Ford v Ferrari) directing. Harrison Ford will return to the role, likely for the last time in what many are assuming will be one more attempt to hand the role off to another. The current rumor is Chris Pratt. The Willow TV series is coming in 2022 with Jon Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) directing the pilot. Warwick Davis will reprise the role of Willow Ufgood from the 1988 film.