Disney held one of its regular financial conference calls yesterday and in that they talked about several upcoming projects to their shareholders. We’ve known about their streaming service for awhile and they confirmed it’s looking at a later 2019 debut, which will tie into when a lot of their streaming properties depart Netflix next, and there are a lot of original projects in the works for it. With their Star Wars section of the newly christened Disney+ service, we already knew about Star Wars: The Mandalorian series which has Jon Favreau shepherding and working on right now.
But a second live-action series was announced as well with a look at the character of Cassian Andor from Rogue One. The series, which doesn’t have a lot of details as one would expect from a conference call like this, will be bringing Diego Luna in to reprise the role.
“Going back to the Star Wars universe is very special for me,” Luna told StarWars.com. “I have so many memories of the great work we did together and the relationships I made throughout the journey. We have a fantastic adventure ahead of us, and this new exciting format will give us the chance to explore this character more deeply.”
Marvel Comics previously produced a special for the character and K2-SO (who we’re hoping will be a big part of this) and this project is definitely what I’m hoping for when it comes to original live-action TV projects for the property. One of the themes of the Rogue One film involved Andor talking about how he’d been fighting for so long and done so many dark things in order to help the growing Rebellion. The chance to explore some of that is definitely exciting, much as it was to get the backstory we did in the Catalyst novel for the Rogue One film that explored Jyn’s parents and the nature of how the Empire started strip mining worlds after the end of the prequels.
Check out our review of the film.
Rogue One Concept: A band of resistance fighters unite for a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans.