It has been a minute since 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” however Disney+ is revisiting the movie with “Andor,” its upcoming collection about Insurgent spy Cassian Andor. Sure, Diego Luna returns to this fan-favorite half, portraying the character in what Disney payments as a spy thriller set 5 years earlier than the occasions of “Rogue One.” Season one of many new present will premiere this August, following Cassian’s journey into the Insurgent chief viewers met in “Rogue One.” Want a refresher on what goes down within the film and the way Luna’s character matches into it? This is a primer on Cassian Andor to jog your reminiscence.
Who Is Cassian Andor?
The Star Wars website describes Cassian this manner: “An completed Alliance Intelligence officer with fight area expertise, Captain Cassian Andor instructions respect from his Insurgent troops together with his means to maintain a cool head beneath hearth and full his missions with minimal sources.” In line with the Star Wars Encyclopedia, he was born on the planet Fest and joined an insurrectionist cell in the course of the Clone Wars and fought as a baby soldier. His father was killed at a protest, and his mom additionally died when he was younger. Not a lot else is understood about his life earlier than he joined the Rise up.
Cassian Andor in “Rogue One”
“Rogue One,” launched in 2016, is a prequel to 1977’s “A New Hope,” the very first Star Wars film. In “Rogue One,” Cassian is an intelligence officer who’s labored with the Rebels since he was 6 years previous. Within the movie, he is tasked with watching over the renegade Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and assassinating her father, Galen, the engineer behind the Demise Star. Cassian finally chooses to not kill Galen, although the scientist dies throughout a bombing anyway. The Insurgent captain and Jyn find yourself taking an imperial ship — dubbed Rogue One — to raid the Demise Star’s databank. They get hold of the schematics for the Demise Star and ship the information again to the Rebels. Regardless of the win, the film’s ending is pretty bleak: a blast from Grand Moff Tarkin kills the pair and lots of the Insurgent forces supporting them. Finally, nonetheless, the schematics find yourself with Princess Leia, offering, nicely, a brand new hope for the Rebels.
Cassian Andor in “Andor”
Again in Could, Luna mentioned on the Star Wars Celebration that the model of Cassian followers will meet in “Andor” is a “very egocentric man.” The present will take Cassian on a journey from a daily particular person, anxious about himself, right into a Insurgent chief who helps unite and encourage the riot. The primary season of “Andor” will cowl one 12 months, with the second season overlaying the remaining 4 years till the start of “Rogue One.” What’s going to occur throughout that point interval, we do not totally but know.
One factor we find out about “Andor”? Cassian will make it by way of each seasons. “The great thing about this present is there is not any means they will kill me,” Luna joked again in Could.
— Further reporting by Victoria Edel
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