Star Wars : Andor [Lucasfilm - 2022]

L'acteur suédois Stellan Skarsgard révèle lors d'une interview que le tournage de la saison 2 débutera à l'automne !

https://thedirect.com/article/star-wars-andor-season-2-disney

Nicholas Britell composera la musique de Andor!

La série Andor serait finalement plus courte qu'envisagé au départ :

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Andor’s director of photography Adriano Goldman: “the series I worked on (Andor) was supposed to be 5 seasons long but I think it’s not happening, it will have 3 (seasons) maybe”

Tant mieux, pas du tout envie de me retrouver avec des séries de 5 saisons, l'univers Star Wars est suffisamment vaste pour ne pas s'éterniser autant sur un seul thème.

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Les images donnent envie et promettent un divertissement mouvementé. Mais c’est étonnant à quel point Cassian n’apparaît pas beaucoup alors que la série porte son nom. Pourtant, puisqu’on sait encore peu de choses du scénario, toute la promesse devrait reposer sur le personnage. Mais bon, je reste curieuse et je suis contente qu’on ait enfin une date.

Début de la diffusion de la première saison de Star Wars : Andor le 31 août sur Disney+ :

Tony Gilroy, showrunner de la série, révèle que les deux premières saisons, composées chacune de 12 épisodes, sont deux parties formant un ensemble conduisant vers les événements de Rogue One.

Prévue à l'origine pour être développée sur cinq saisons avant d'être ramenée à trois saisons, les propos du showrunner suggèrent que la série se clôturera finalement au terme de la seconde saison.

La bande-annonce en VF :

24 épisodes ça sera largement suffisant je pense !

En tout cas cette bande annonce donne extrêmement envie de voir la série !!! je l'attendais déjà énormément mais la je suis encore plus convaincu et j'ai vraiment hâte, la série va être sombre, et va enfin montrer qu'il n'y a pas que l'Empire qui peut se montrer sans foi ni loi pour défendre ses idéaux, j'ai hâte

Le droïde Bee-two présenté à la San Diego Comics Convention International 2022 :

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B2EMO (Creature Design by Neal Scanlan)

B2EMO — or Bee-two or more simply, Bee – is a very old and weary groundmech salvage assist unit that’s been towing scrap for the Andor family for years.  The droid has a wide array of mechanical tools and various capabilities to meet the functions required.

Les costumes de Cassian Andor et Mon Mothma :

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Cassian Andor (Costume Design by Michael Wilkinson)

As part of his entry into the growing rebellion, Cassian Andor must undertake a dangerous mission on Aldhani.

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Mon Mothma (Costume Design by Michael Wilkinson)

The Imperial Senator from Chandrila, Mon Mothma carefully navigates the dangerous shadows of Coruscant politics in her efforts to build a rebellion.

Nouvelles affiche promotionnelle et bande-annonce et surtout nouvelle date de sortie pour Star Wars : Andor dont la diffusion ne débutera finalement que le 21 septembre mais avec les trois premiers épisodes en simultané.

Lors de sa participation ce matin à l'émission Good Morning America sur ABC, Diego Luna s'est exprimé au sujet de son personnage Cassian Andor et de la série qui semble disposer de plus gros moyens que les séries proposées jusqu'à présent :

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“It’s quite unique, because we know what Cassian is capable of, but we’re going to meet him when he doesn’t know he’s capable of that,” Luna said. “We’re going to meet him when life is tough, it’s a very dark and interesting life because it’s just a regular guy that suddenly has to become part of something bigger, has to become part of a community that rises. It’s the beginning of the origins of a revolution, and it’s a beautiful story because it reminds us what we are capable of, what we are all capable of. There’s no Jedis around — it’s people having to take control.”

Luna also teased that the series is going to have more practical effects than other blockbuster productions.

“I love the whole world,” he said. “Suddenly I’m a kid on the set, because everything’s real, everything’s there. We don’t work with green screens — the stuff is built. The props work. They make noises.”

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How Lucasfilm’s Andor Reintroduces Its Rebel with a Cause

You may know Cassian Andor’s fate, but you don’t know his past.

That will change when Lucasfilm’s highly anticipated series Andor launches Wednesday, September 21, with a three-episode premiere, exclusively on Disney+. Diego Luna reprises his role as Cassian Andor, who was introduced in the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in a story set against a backdrop of political intrigue and rising rebellion. Created by showrunner Tony Gilroy (who wrote five of the 12 episodes), Andorexplores a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, in which Cassian will discover how to make a difference and, ultimately, become a rebel hero.

“Everything that made sense as you watched the film is going to be challenged,” Luna promises. “I know where [his arc] ends, so I can be creative about how to get there. I think it triggers a different part of your creativity when you start backwards.”

The idea of working backwards didn’t faze Gilroy, who says, “We’re all living in a prequel. We’re all going to die!” In shaping Cassian’s arc, he wanted the narrative journey to feel compelling and complete. To achieve that, the series reintroduces Cassian at an especially low point in his life, five years prior to the events depicted in Rogue One, at a time when the Empire was consolidating its power across the galaxy.



“There are touchpoints in Rogue One—there are snapshots for every character, little moments of truth, that go back to who they were,” Gilroy says. “Cassian had been fighting in the revolution since he was 6 years old, and at end of the film, he says, ‘My God, if we don’t go out and make this final effort, then everything I’ve done—all of the horrible things I’ve done for the Rebellion—will have been for naught. It’ll have been useless.’ So, we know there’s a very dark period, and we’ve seen his behavior all the way through that. There were tiny navigational points, so I started to build from those.”

In spite of its name, Andor isn’t just about Cassian’s journey. In fact, the live-action series will introduce several new characters, including Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård), Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona), Dedra Meero (Denise Gough), Syril Karn (Kyle Soller), Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw), and Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay), and reintroduce characters such as Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) and Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker). “I love that this story is about regular people,” Luna says. “It’s about you and me. It’s about us.” In fact, Luna adds, “It’s unfair to call the show Andor, because this is about communities.”

D23 - 18 août 2022.

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5 Pieces of Important Intel from the Andor Cast and Crew

The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance. The once-mighty force of the Jedi has fallen and a mysterious, powerful Emperor holds the planets in the palms of his gnarled hands. It’s a grim time for the average person trying to navigate life in the Star Wars galaxy, where Episode III ended and when the Andor series is set—with the “bad guys” winning…

When you start watching Andor on September 21 on Disney+, you’d expect the tone to be hopeless—but then, you’ve forgotten what keeps the heart of Star Wars beating. “There’s nothing cynical about this show,” showrunner Tony Gilroy maintains during the show’s recent virtual press conference. The sentiment was shared with the present cast, including Diego Luna, who plays the titular character; Genevieve O’Reilly, who plays Mon Mothma; Adria Arjona, who portrays Bix Caleen; Denise Gough, who plays Dedra Meero; and Kyle Soler, who plays Syril Karn. While details around this show have been kept as top-secret as the Death Star plans or the location of the secret Rebel Base, Gilroy and the cast passed along some key pieces of intel about the series, which sets the stage of a rebellion strong enough to end a Sith-ruled Empire.



Andor is the story of how a revolutionary is created

Something both Gilroy and Luna agree on is that while Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was about a key moment in the Rebel Alliance’s history, Andor is a map—laying out the steps of how someone can transform from an average person to a rebel, willing to risk it all in the name of hope. To Gilroy, the “walk-in” for the series was that exact idea: “We can do a story that takes [Cassian Andor] literally from his childhood origins and walk him through a five-year history of an odyssey that takes him to that place, during a revolution, during a moment in history in a place where huge events are happening, and real people are being crushed by it. The fact that we could follow somebody as an example of a revolution all the way through to the end [made it work].”

While this story is set in a galaxy far, far away, the journey of Cassian is one with roots very much here on Earth. “It’s quite relevant today,” Luna says, “to tell the story of what needs to happen for a revolutionary to emerge, to exist, to come to life.” The original Star Wars trilogy shows us a Rebellion at the height of the battle, fully organized and prepared to take down the Empire. Those who watched Star Wars with wide eyes, filled with the hope that they too could make a difference in the world might still be wondering: What’s the first step? It’s not often that an astromech droid rolls into your life with a message from a princess—most journeys to making a difference start a little differently. “That journey matters to me,” Luna says, “You know that [Cassian] started to fight when he was six years old. What does that mean, exactly? Why would a six-year-old miss his childhood and start to fight? I think that story matters.”

He continues, “If that’s possible, then anyone can do something. I always thought of Cassian as a character that has been forced to move; therefore, he brings a pain that he’s carrying, that is making him very cynical about life. [But he’s] finding a way to get the clarity of someone that suddenly starts believing, and that goes through a process of acknowledging that something in a community can give you enough strength to be useful and to bring change.”



You’re going to meet the real Mon Mothma

While much of the series is about Cassian’s journey to the Rebel Alliance, it also spends a lot of time exploring different characters who are moving other parts in this story—including a familiar face for many. O’Reilly reprises her role as Mon Mothma, which she previously played in both Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Rogue One. “Each time we’ve met her, we’ve met this kind of composed, regal, dignified woman,” O’Reilly says, “who often—like with Cassian in Rogue One—sends people out on a mission.” It’s true—this Rebel Alliance leader’s most famous scenes in Rogue One and in Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi (as portrayed by Caroline Blakiston) are both centered around sending the main characters on assignments.

So, what does Mon Mothma do when she’s not telling us about complex plans and the Bothans who died to get them? “For the first time, we get to see the woman behind the role,” O’Reilly tells us, “We get to see a private face of Mon Mothma. We get to flesh out not just the senator, not just the would-be leader of a Rebel Alliance, but also the woman.” The series starts with Mon Mothma “steeped in Empire,” as O’Reilly puts it, “navigating a very male-dominated Empire with a very powerful Emperor Palpatine at the top of it. And so, we find her in a place we’ve never seen her before. We find her in a bit of a gilded cage. What I’m excited for is for us to travel that story with her.”



There will be…Girl Power?

Both O’Reilly’s Mon Mothma and Arjona’s Bix Caleen are heroines of the series, but Gough’s character, Dedra, is a powerful woman with a different alignment. “Dedra is an ISP officer. And when we meet her, she’s at the kind of low end of the ladder,” Gough says. “She’s incredibly ambitious and meticulous. What I love about playing her is that, she’s in this very male-dominated world and she’s seeing, around her, the way that people are missing what she can see is happening.”

Much like Mon Mothma, she’s steeped in the male-dominated empire. The difference is that she wants to be there: “She’s clawing her way up the ladder. And I love portraying the effect that power just has on a person, like the danger of that pursuit of power and control, regardless of gender.” Gough amends—”I mean, I do kind of love that you’re thinking, ‘Oh, go girl.’ And then you remember, she’s in a fascist organization.” She laughs, adding, “I’m getting a real thrill being able to play her. She wants to really make her mark in this industry of the Empire.”



They created a fully immersive world

If you’re going to tell a story about intergalactic espionage and revolutions, it helps to have an out-of-this-world set to explore. “I remember coming to one of the sets, the town that had been built by the production designers, and the set units and every little thing had been thought of. Every cabinet had, I don’t know, a whole life inside,” recalls Soler.

Airona agrees: “I remember the first day, walking around and kind of getting lost in it and exploring. And it was so cool.” A specific memory stands out to her that really illustrates the sheer size of the whole thing; as she explains, “There was one day where one of our directors told me to run, and I was like, ‘Well, where do you want me to run?’

He’s like, ‘Anywhere you want!’ ‘Cause everything was filmable. If I would go left, we could’ve filmed there; if I would go right, we could’ve filmed there. He could basically point the camera either left or right, and that was kind of cool.”



Andor explores the “gray areas” of Star Wars

Throughout Star Wars’ stories, audiences are left to contemplate good and evil; the light and the dark. Even in films like Rogue One, where there are no Jedi or Force users among the protagonists, there is still a steadfast belief in the light side of the Force. But what about that in-between area, that’s not quite light and not quite dark? “[Cassian] spends much of his time in the complexity of the gray areas,” Luna explains, “In the contradictions of characters. And that’s where I think this real thing comes out of it. Because it’s full of that experience, of just being someone trying to live your life and having to make choices. This is a show about people, about real people, you know? It’s very dark times in the galaxy; there are no Jedi around. These people are having to articulate a reaction to oppression, and it’s the most grounded kind of Star Wars you’ll get.”

In many ways, it’s a story about us here on Earth. We don’t have Jedi or Sith or any kind of Force to propel us, so how do we rebel? As Luna says, “It is a show about us—it is a show about these people finding the strength to come up with a reaction and to change and bring change to their reality.” It’s a story he hopes everyone will want to see: “I thought that story matters too much. It’s [something] I would like to tell my kids, and to my friends.”

D23 - 24 août 2022.

Une nouvelle affiche promotionnelle à trois semaines de la diffusion des trois premiers épisodes !




Le calendrier de diffusion :

Courte vidéo pour situer la série Star Wars : Andor sur la ligne du temps de cette galaxie lointaine, très lointaine...

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Nouvelle galerie de personnages pour Star Wars : Andor.

Hier soir, les acteurs et l'équipe de la série télévisée Star Wars: Andor se sont réunis à Hollywood pour un événement spécial qui a présenté les trois premiers épisodes diffusés sur grand écran.

Diego Luna, Genevieve O'Reilly, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Fiona Shaw et Ben Bailey Smith ainsi que Tony Gilroy, Kathleen Kennedy, Sanne Wohlenberg, Michelle Rejwan, Toby Haynes, Benjamin Caron, Dan Gilroy, Beau Willimon, John Gilroy et Nicholas Britell ont déambulé sur le tapis rouge à l'occasion de cette avant-première.

J'ai bien aimé les 3 premiers épisodes, à voir pour la suite !

J'ai adoré ces 3 premiers épisodes !! Il y a une tension croissante juste folle, le casting est très bon, l'histoire est vraiment très mature, l'écriture est maitrisée et les dialogues sont bien travaillés !

Et le gros point fort de cette série pour l'instant est clairement son aspect visuel, que ce soit les effets spéciaux, les décors ou la photographie tout est sublime et c'est très clairement la plus belle série Star Wars produite à ce jour et de loin!!

Mon seul bémol serait sur la musique, un peu trop discrète à mon gout mais en même temps l'ambiance ne demande pas de grandes envolées lyriques donc ce n'est pas dérangeant au contraire.

Autre problème aussi, le logo Andor, il dure 25 secondes !!!!!!! Mais pourquoi il est si long à se déployer ???


Mais sinon c'est vraiment une série de très bonne qualité et j'ai plus que hâte de voir la suite