Andor creator Tony Gilroy revealed early on that an entire year will skip between the end of Andor’s first season and the start of the second season, which is currently filming. So we meet Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård), Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) as well as Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) & Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) and all the other characters at another point in their to live. A lot will have changed for her, but let’s go back half a sentence: because we wrote the full names and the addition “all other characters” for a reason.
Because in an interview with revealed Tony Gilroy, that he wouldn’t let anyone die while skipping a year. He cannot reveal how long each character will be alive when the second season begins, but any characters still alive at the end of the first season will also be alive at the start of the second season. Gilroy is probably not only referring to the main characters, popular secondary characters such as Brasso (Joplin Sibtain) or Lonni (Robert Emms) should also be safe with it.
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We will therefore be spared a major personnel change for the time being. In the beginning, we can keep rooting for all the characters we’ve grown fond of so far.
Second season “Andor”: many time jumps
However, we assume that some of these characters will die in the second season of “Andor” – especially since this covers a very long period of time. The twelve episodes of the second season chronicle the events of about four years, up to the events of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”. To bridge this big time, he has to make many time jumps. To do this, he came up with an interesting approach.
Then all three episodes have a time jump of about a year. Three consecutive episodes always take place within the space of a few days, a week at the most, telling an adventure before the next time jump follows.
The approach is quite complex. Because you have to make the audience feel that something happened in the intervening year. On the other hand, you can’t spend much time explaining the skipped part either. in the interview, Gilroy explains that as a writer you have to be very brave about these gaps. It’s not just about explaining everything.
But we won’t see how he succeeds until 2024, because the second season of “Andor” has already been filming for a week – and according to the plan by August 2023. How soon the series will come to Disney + is not in his mind, according to Gilroy. hands. It depends on how long post production takes. With a lot of money you can speed it up considerably. It can still be assumed that, like the first season, it will last about a year. The start would be in the summer/autumn 2024.