Disney+ drops teasers for Andor and Willow TV series at Star Wars Celebration

Disney+'s forthcoming Andor series will focus on Rogue One's Cassian Andor.

Disney+ unveiled two teaser trailers for upcoming series at the Lucasfilm studio showcase panel during Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, on Thursday. The first was for Andor, a 12-episode prequel series set five years before the events of Rogue One, starring Diego Luna as Cassian Andor. The other was for Willow, a new series intended as a sequel to the 1988 cult classic fantasy film of the same name, set decades after the events of the original film.

The streaming platform also confirmed that the much-anticipated Star Wars series Ahsoka will premiere in 2023, along with a new kid-centric series called Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, set during The Mandalorian's timeline and starring Jude Law. Also, the third season of The Mandalorian will premiere in February 2023, featuring the bounty hunter's return to Mandalore with Grogu, as well as Katee Sackhoff reprising her S2 role as Bo-Katan Kryze. (Chances are she wants to retrieve the Darksaber that Mando won.)

We haven't seen or heard much about Andor after the reveal of a behind-the-scenes teaser in December 2020 during Disney's Investors Day. Andor has been described as a "tense nail-biting spy thriller," with Tony Gilroy, who co-wrote Rogue One, serving as showrunner. It begins with the Empire's destruction of Cassian Andor's homeworld and will depict the birth of the Rebellion. According to Deadline Hollywood, Luna described Andor as the journey of a migrant. That feeling of having to move is behind this story-that shapes you as a person. It defines you in many ways, and what you are willing to do."

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