Cassian Andor

Star Wars fans will cosplay anything from the galaxy far, far away, especially at Star Wars Celebration, where you’re going to be among an audience that will get any obscure reference. But just one day into the 2023 con, one look dominates all: Andor’s prison getup.‘I Started a Yoda Fan Club’From the official Celebration store to the hallways of fan-made costumes, you cannot take more than a few steps in the London ExCel center without spotting someone clad in all white, a strip of identifying orange running down their…

The first season of Andor turned out to be one of the best shows (both sci-fi and generally speaking) of the year. Thanks to some pretty great performances and writing, the show wasn’t so much the Rogue One prequel it was initially pitched as and more a look what rebellion and government systems look like, and how those two things become deeply interconnected with one another and an individual’s relationship to them.During the show’s panel at London’s Star Wars Celebration, showrunner Tony Gilroy and several of the show’s…

Although Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Han Solo defeated the Galactic Empire at the end of Return of the Jedi—with an assist from a teddy bear or three—the new era of Star Wars has made no secret of the fact that the galaxy’s problems weren’t all solved with the death of Palpatine. Various remnants of the Empire survived, the First Order arose, the Emperor came back, and that’s just in the sequel trilogy; if you check out the books, you’ll know the government of the New Republic was mired by political infighting almost…

Cassian Andor still has a long way to go before Rogue One.Image: LucasfilmAlmost everyone loved the first season of Andor. Simply put, it was an enthralling and engaging season of television, unlike anything we’d seen before in Star Wars. However, like many things in Star Wars, we can’t lose sight of the fact it’s a prequel and, as such, does have to build to certain things.In a new interview, Andor star Diego Luna talked about the key things his character, Cassian, must learn before we first meet him in Rogue One—where…

Photo: Russ Martin/FXWhat else is there to say about What We Do in the Shadows, which just wrapped up a fourth season as delightfully brilliant as the ones that came before? This year, we saw Nadja open a nightclub, Nandor get married, Laszlo become weirdly obsessed with home renovations, and Colin Robinson grow up in the oddest (and yet most musical) way possible. But special props, as always, go to Guillermo, who not only continued to kick ass and be under-appreciated, but got an especially nice moment when he nervously…

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Image: Lucasfilm/Disney+Andor may have just wrapped its first season on Disney+, but the Star Wars series is still very much on the minds of viewers who couldn’t get enough of its exciting plot and its memorable characters. One of the most endearing was droid B2EMO, faithful companion to Cassian Andor’s mother, Maarva.In a new interview with StarWars.com, showrunner Tony Gilroy talked about how the droid, an instant fan-favorite, was created—including the inspiration behind his stubbornly loyal, somewhat doddering manner:…

Cassian Andor is ready to join the rebellion.Image: LucasfilmFrom Jyn Erso and Chirrut Imwe to Director Krennic and Bor Gullet, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is chock full of incredible characters. But only one of those characters (so far) has their very own spinoff series, and the actor behind him thinks upcoming episodes will change how you feel about the movie.We’re talking, of course, about Diego Luna as Cassian Andor,who is at the center of Disney+’s Andor. Season one of the show just ended and it tracked how a…

Image: LucasfilmIt doesn’t feel like that long ago that the idea of Diego Luna’s Rogue One character Cassian Andor getting a solo series felt strange. But over the past two months and change, Andor has proven itself to be a pretty great show. Not just “great for Star Wars,” but legitimately great in a way that could easily make you forget you’re watching a prequel about a guy who’s fated to eventually die as part of a larger effort to save the galaxy.Andor was given a two-season order from the jump, and showrunner Tony…

Image: LucasfilmAndor’s scale is a personal one, and for much the series, the Empire appears undefined by the familiar iconography that is plastered over the rest of Star Wars—Stormtroopers largely replaced by lightly armored grunts, Star Destroyers fleeting, and then the TIE Fighter, so rarely seen that when one does appear, flying over the Aldhani cell’s encampment, it’s the scariest a lone, screeching starfigher has ever been. Image: LucasfilmAndor’s scale is a personal one, and for much the series, the Empire…