Everything You Need to Know About ‘Andor,’ the Newest Star Wars Show

Star Wars has another prequel in its roster: Andor, its newest Disney+ series. Andor follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), the Rebel Alliance intelligence officer and pilot who was introduced and then sacrificed his life in 2016’s Rogue One. But after seeing Cassian, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), and the rest of their team perish on-screen, fans never thought that more stories starring those characters were in the cards. But thanks to the franchise’s affinity for hopping back and forth through time for their various projects, Cassian Andor’s story will continue—by going five years backward.

Why focus on a character that fans know is going to die not long after the show wraps? Doing that is kind of Star Wars’ MO. We knew that Darth Vader would kill Sidious and die in Luke Skywalker’s arms in Return of the Jedi, the third Star Wars film released. But that didn’t stop the franchise from spawning an entire set of prequels 20-plus years later, which showed Vader’s (a.k.a. Anakin Skywalker’s) origins.

But unlike the prequel trilogy of movies, which end 19 years before A New Hope, Andor takes place only a handful of years before Rogue One. And while it does show Cassian as a child, the series doesn’t offer a play-by-play of his life. Instead, Andor is more concerned with the momentum of the Rebel Alliance, and how Cassian found himself fighting for their cause.

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