TV casting news.
As Disney+'s Andor series winds down its two-season build-up to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, expect to see yet another familiar face from the 2016 Star Wars film.
As part of as-yet-unpublished interview with The Playlist, Alonso Ruizpalacios - who directed the last three episodes of Andor Season 2 - apparently let slip that he worked on the Star Wars TV series with heavyweight actors like "Stellan Skarsgard, Forest Whitaker and Ben Mendelsohn."
Skarsgard of course starred in Andor Season 1 as Resistance operative Luthen Rael, while Whitaker in a pair of episodes reprised his Rogue One role of Saw Gerrera.
Mendelson's apparent encore, though, is new news. In Rogue One, he played Imperial Director Orson Krennic, an Imperial bigwig who compelled Galen Erso into completing work on the OG Death Star.
A prequel to Rogue One, Andor in its first season followed the titular Cassian (played by Rogue One's Diego Luna) as his murder of two "corpo" guards led him to meet Luthen Rael (Skarsgard), a key member in the budding Resistance movement.
Cassian helped with the heist of Imperial payroll, but even after escaping, wound up imprisoned. Followed a white-knuckle jailbreak, Cass made his way home to the planet Ferrix in time for his mother's funeral, and managed to elude capture by the many factions hunting him. As Season 1 came to close, he joined Luthen aboard his Fondor craft, ready to assist the Resistance further.
You can read the years both seasons of the show take place in and read the cast list for Season 2 in the other photos.
Andor Season 2 wrapped filming in February, and seeing as showrunner Tony Gilroy has said that post-production will take up to a year, it is likely on track for an end-of-2024, or early 2025, premiere.
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