I am not a newsy newsletter but I happened to be awake when this was released on Good Morning America! So! Happy Monday!
This trailer is so beautiful it made Fiona Shaw shed a single tear.
It turns out that Andor will be coming to Disney Plus three weeks after the originally announced date, it’s been moved back from August 31st to September 21st. To smooth over ruffled fan feathers, three episodes will drop that day instead of two. So, we’re getting a movie on September 21st, basically. I’ll take it.
Obi-Wan Kenobi also had an adjusted release date to work alongside Celebration, but it moved two days, not several weeks. (As with Obi-Wan, Lucasfilm sent out its charming lead to deliver the news.)
Release dates for movies change all the time to accommodate pandemics, schedules or studios. Still, working my way through Light & Magic, I see a stark contrast to the seemingly immovable release date that the original Star Wars team faced as they created new special effects techniques as fast as their metal boxes and glue would allow. I wonder if Andor needs more time to cook or if it was determined that She-Hulk should have more runway in the pop culture conversation? Who can say? In the world of streaming, all bets are off. We can get releases a week apart, all at once, three at once and then one a week, it’s just chaos folks. Like the Andor trailer. It’s chaos.
Either way, the new trailer gives us some of the same revolutionary vibes as the teaser and offers a few extra details. Saw Gerrera makes an appearance with Forest Whitaker’s whispery threatening presence. I spied an X-Wing! The Imperial Senate! And Stellan Skarsgard looking like this:
I mean, what a vision in purple. What a rich guy hairdo. What a barely contained lie. This character seems fascinating.
The whole vibe of Andor so far feels very in tune with Rogue One, which feels itself more like a traditional sci-fi epic than an old serial. This is giving me Battlestar Galactica vibes as much as A New Hope vibes. And Battlestar Galactica was supposed to give us Star Wars vibes as it was the first project ILM founder John Dykstra worked on after A New Hope, so…
Any day with a new Star Wars trailer is a good day, even a day that tells us all we’re going to have to wait a little longer for this story. Every thing about this looks energetic, oppresive and very cinematic. I cannot, as they say, wait.
I don't blame them for not showing us any Young Commander (Not Yet General) Madine in this trailer. I mean, you probably want to save him for, like, the second to last episode of the first season. The keep it all hopping.
Genevieve O'Reilly is wonderful, but it's hard to watch her after seeing her give Matt LeBlanc a handy in Episodes :)