ANDOR Season 2 Has Likely Been Delayed To 2025 As Lucasfilm Makes Changes To Upcoming Disney+ Slate

ANDOR Season 2 Has Likely Been Delayed To 2025 As Lucasfilm Makes Changes To Upcoming Disney+ Slate

It's looking increasingly likely that Andor season 2 has been pushed from next August to 2025, but where does that leave the likes of The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew, and The Mandalorian season 4? Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Dec 07, 2023 07:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Cassian Andor
Source: SFFGazette.com

A few days ago, a Disney+ UK press release appeared to confirm that Skeleton Crew and The Acolyte will be the only Star Wars TV shows released on the streaming platform in 2024. 

During April's Star Wars Celebration in London, Lucasfilm confirmed Andor season 2 will be released next August. That was, of course, before the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes brought Hollywood to a standstill for most of the summer, though we'd expected the series to potentially still meet that release window.

Tony Gilroy revealed he'd finished writing Andor's scripts before the writer's strike started but with the majority of cast members part of SAG-AFTRA, it was clear cameras could only continue rolling for so long. Now, the impact of that is finally being felt. 

According to Bespin Bulletin (via SFFGazette.com), with The Acolyte slipping to next summer, Andor season 2 has indeed been slipped into 2025. As for Skeleton Crew, the site believes it's being saved for next November, nearly a whole year after we originally expected to see it on Disney+!

On the plus side, Andor won't be alone in 2025 because that's the same year The Mandalorian season 4 is going to premiere after similar strike-related delays. 

Back to Cassian Andor's origin story, though, and you may have recently seen photos on social media of Snowtroopers wandering around London's Pinewood Studios. That immediately led to speculation they would be part of season 2, though the site has managed to confirm they were simply there as part of Pinewood's Future Festival and not there to shoot scenes for this or any other series.

Andor's next batch of episodes will chronicle the next steps in Cassian's journey as he fights to assemble a fledgling resistance. Kathleen Kennedy, Tony Gilroy, Sanne Wohlenberg, Diego Luna and Luke Hull are executive producing the upcoming season, which stars Luna, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly, Andy Serkis, Muhannad Bahair and Joplin Sibtain.

Earlier this year, Luna shared his take on what fans can expect from the show's upcoming second season:

"Having 12 episodes to tell a story - it’s a long time; it’s a lot of time. Each episode, more than any other thing I’ve done for TV, has to be something on its own. It has to be something that stays there. And I think we have that in mind much more [in season 2]."

"We’re used to doing more film than anything else. This is the second thing I’ve done in this format for streaming. And the same [thing] with many people from the writing, the directors, the production, so naturally, we ended up thinking in three episodes as a block, because it’s like the time you have for a film."

"Each block of three episodes, in a way, had a beginning and an end. And when we put out the first season, it was when we were about to start doing promotion that we came up with the idea of putting three out [at a time], because it was something by itself, without us even thinking about it."

"Then, in this next season, what we’re doing is blocks of three episodes and each block represents a year. We include that as part of the format in a much more structured way."

Make sure to keep checking SFFGazette.com for the latest Andor updates as we have them.

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Origame
Origame - 12/7/2023, 8:01 AM
Is this a sign that star wars is getting an overhaul?

God I hope so.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 12/7/2023, 8:05 AM
@Origame - i hope they just let filoni write and have someone else direct.

Looking forward to that The Daniels episode however long the wait is
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 12/7/2023, 8:03 AM
S1 was good but id prefer Star Wars shows that provide more of the mythos.

Then again, Ahsoka provided that but the execution was off.

Mixed bag so far.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 12/7/2023, 8:11 AM
Andor S1 is THE best SW show so far.... and yet there wasnt a single lightsaber in sight... go figure

can't wait for S2, wish it was coming sooner than 2025

mountainman
mountainman - 12/7/2023, 8:16 AM
So after X-Men 97 is over, I can cancel D+ again until summer 2025. Good to know.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 12/7/2023, 11:10 AM
@mountainman - do you pay per month or by year? i've been thinking about cancelling as well but i pay yearly like a dope
mountainman
mountainman - 12/7/2023, 12:41 PM
@MotherGooseUPus - When I first did D+ a few years back I did the yearly with hulu and ESPN+. When I found we weren’t watching much on it, we switched to monthly just D+. Earlier this year we canceled because we weren’t watching it, but we just reactivated for a few months to watch some holiday/nostalgic stuff, Loki S2, Percy Jackson (wife wants to watch it), and X-Men 97. Nothing else looks like it interests us for a while after that.

Although I may have screwed myself over and forced myself to keep it because my little girl might be getting to love Bluey now.
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 12/7/2023, 12:54 PM
@mountainman - ahhh got yea. yea i originally signed up cuz of Mando and Wandavision, did it for the 1 time payment cuz it was cheaper than monthly... then i was spoiled with great shows the first year or 2.... since... things have gone down hill and i rarely use it... but i just recently paid for another year cuz its on auto renew.... may have to change that until good shit comes back out
Matchesz
Matchesz - 12/7/2023, 8:24 AM
They said divert maximum power to the dumb Rey movie that nobody wants.
FusionWarrior
FusionWarrior - 12/7/2023, 9:02 AM
I'm cool with that, Acolyte has been on my anticipation list for quite sometime! 🚦
DocSpock
DocSpock - 12/7/2023, 10:30 AM

Andor was very good.

But the idea of more SW movies with characters from the last sh!tty trilogy kinda ruins any more interest in Star Wars moving forward.

Fares
Fares - 12/7/2023, 11:12 AM
theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 12/7/2023, 11:28 AM
God Andor was so good. All the other recent SW stuff is actually embarrassing.

Yes. All.
SteelGunZ
SteelGunZ - 12/7/2023, 11:33 AM
I hate prequel shows and movies.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 12/7/2023, 11:46 AM
Not entirely unexpected, and not a problem either. 2024 still has three shows with The Acolyte, The Bad Batch and Skeleton Crew anyway, while 2025 could have The Mandalorian, Andor, Lando and Ahsoka.
ThorArms
ThorArms - 12/7/2023, 12:09 PM
noooooo
Rastarapha
Rastarapha - 12/7/2023, 2:18 PM
I was prepared 🥲

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