Studiocanal and The Picture Company’s new psychological thriller Control is starting up production with its star James McAvoy. Deadline has also revealed the list of actors that will be rounding out the cast for the film. Julianne Moore has been added to the film, starring opposite McAvoy. In addition to McAvoy and Moore, Sarah Bolger, who is known for A Good Woman Is Hard To Find, joins the cast, along with Nick Mohammed from Ted Lasso, Jenna Coleman, whose credits include The Sandman, Rudi Dharmalingam, known for Role Play, Kyle Soller of the Disney+ show Andor, plus August Diehl and Martina Gedeck. The film will be directed by Robert Schwentke, whose resume includes the Bruce Willis action comedy Red.
The synopsis (per Deadline) reads,
“Control is based on the podcast from Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie. The film revolves around a troubled doctor who wakes up one morning to...
The synopsis (per Deadline) reads,
“Control is based on the podcast from Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie. The film revolves around a troubled doctor who wakes up one morning to...
- 5/9/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Studiocanal and The Picture Company have added seven names to the cast of the James McAvoy starrer Control as the pic enters production in Berlin.
Joining the cast are Sarah Bolger (A Good Woman Is Hard To Find), Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso), Jenna Coleman (The Sandman), Rudi Dharmalingam (Role Play), Kyle Soller (Andor) August Diehl, and Martina Gedeck.
Directed by Robert Schwentke (Red), Control is based on the podcast from Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie. The film revolves around a troubled doctor who wakes up one morning to the sound of a mysterious voice in his head. With his reality now in question, the voice makes a series of escalating demands he must follow or devastating consequences will unfold.
Rounding out the key crew is director of photography Roman Vasyanov (Fury), and BAFTA-nominated editor Sven Budelmann (All Quiet On The Western Front). Costumes were designed by prolific costume designer...
Joining the cast are Sarah Bolger (A Good Woman Is Hard To Find), Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso), Jenna Coleman (The Sandman), Rudi Dharmalingam (Role Play), Kyle Soller (Andor) August Diehl, and Martina Gedeck.
Directed by Robert Schwentke (Red), Control is based on the podcast from Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie. The film revolves around a troubled doctor who wakes up one morning to the sound of a mysterious voice in his head. With his reality now in question, the voice makes a series of escalating demands he must follow or devastating consequences will unfold.
Rounding out the key crew is director of photography Roman Vasyanov (Fury), and BAFTA-nominated editor Sven Budelmann (All Quiet On The Western Front). Costumes were designed by prolific costume designer...
- 5/9/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Bodies is a British sci-fi murder-mystery series created by Paul Tomalin. Based on the DC Vertigo comic and graphic novel of the same name written by Si Spencer, and illustrated by Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick, and Phil Winsdale. The Netflix series follows four different detectives in four different periods trying to solve the same murder in London. Bodies stars Stephen Graham, Amaka Okafor, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Kyle Soller, Tom Mothersdale, and Synnove Karlsen. So, if you loved the Netflix series here are some similar shows you could watch next.
Altered Carbon (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Altered Carbon is a high-concept sci-fi series created by Laeta Kalogridis, but at the heart of the first season of this series is a murder mystery which should be interesting for the fans of Bodies. Based on a 2002 cyberpunk novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan, the Netflix series is set...
Altered Carbon (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Altered Carbon is a high-concept sci-fi series created by Laeta Kalogridis, but at the heart of the first season of this series is a murder mystery which should be interesting for the fans of Bodies. Based on a 2002 cyberpunk novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan, the Netflix series is set...
- 3/24/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Noah Baumbach has set an all-star cast for his new Netflix film.The 54-year-old filmmaker has tapped actors including Jim Broadbent, Isla Fisher and Patrick Wilson to feature in the untitled movie that has been teased as a funny and emotional coming-of-age picture about adults.Jamie Demetriou, Lars Eidinger, Grace Edwards, Patsy Ferran, Thaddea Graham, Josh Hamilton, Eve Hewson, Stacy Keach, Nicole Lecky, Emily Mortimer, Louis Partridge, Alba Rohrwacher, Charlie Rowe, Parker Sawyers and Kyle Soller are all set to appear.Noah's wife – the 'Barbie' director Greta Gerwig – also has a part in the movie.The collection of stars join previously announced cast members George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and Riley Keough in the picture.Noah is directing and has co-written the script with Mortimer. The 'Marriage Story' helmer is also producing along with Amy Pascal and David Heyman.Baumbach co-wrote the hit...
- 3/15/2024
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Noah Baumbach‘s mysterious Netflix feature is pulling out all the stops regarding its cast, with several talents adding themselves to the project. After painting the box office pink with the billion-dollar barn-burner Barbie, Greta Gerwig reteams with her husband, Baumbach, for a role in his untitled film. Gerwig is one of many names announced for the project, with Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge), Jamie Demetriou (Fleabag), Lars Eidnger (All the Light We Cannot See), Grace Edwards (Schooled), Patsy Ferran (Tom and Jerry), Isla Fisher (Wolf Like Me), Thaddea Graham (Doctor Who), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade), Eve Hewson (Robin Hood), Stacy Keach (Up in Smoke), Nicôle Lecky (Sense8), Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns), Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes 2), Alba Rohrwacher (Hungry Hearts), Charlie Rowe (Rocketman), Kyle Soller (Anna Karenina), and Patrick Wilson (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) rounding out the cast.
The stars mentioned above join previously announced cast members George Clooney,...
The stars mentioned above join previously announced cast members George Clooney,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Fresh on the heels of Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, and Riley Keough joining its cast, Deadline has news of even more castings for Noah Baumbach‘s upcoming film for Netflix. And be prepared, there’s a lot of names here, most significantly Baumbach’s partner Greta Gerwig.
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Here’s the complete list of cast additions, not including Gerwig: Jim Broadbent, Jamie Demetriou, Lars Eidnger, Grace Edwards, Patsy Ferran, Isla Fisher, Thaddea Graham, Josh Hamilton, Eve Hewson, Stacy Keach, Nicôle Lecky, Emily Mortimer, Louis Partridge, Alba Rohrwacher, Charlie Rowe, Kyle Soller, and Patrick Wilson.
Continue reading Noah Baumbach’s Next Netflix Feature Adds 18 More Cast Members, Including Greta Gerwig at The Playlist.
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Here’s the complete list of cast additions, not including Gerwig: Jim Broadbent, Jamie Demetriou, Lars Eidnger, Grace Edwards, Patsy Ferran, Isla Fisher, Thaddea Graham, Josh Hamilton, Eve Hewson, Stacy Keach, Nicôle Lecky, Emily Mortimer, Louis Partridge, Alba Rohrwacher, Charlie Rowe, Kyle Soller, and Patrick Wilson.
Continue reading Noah Baumbach’s Next Netflix Feature Adds 18 More Cast Members, Including Greta Gerwig at The Playlist.
- 3/14/2024
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Noah Baumbach has found himself quite a cast for his untitled next film at Netflix.
Jim Broadbent, Jamie Demetriou, Lars Eidnger, Grace Edwards, Patsy Ferran, Isla Fisher, Greta Gerwig, Thaddea Graham, Josh Hamilton, Eve Hewson, Stacy Keach, Nicôle Lecky, Emily Mortimer, Louis Partridge, Alba Rohrwacher, Charlie Rowe, Parker Sawyers, Alba Rohrwacher, Kyle Soller and Patrick Wilson round out the cast. They join previously announced George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and Riley Keough in the film.
Baumbach is directing and co-wrote the script with Emily Mortimer. Baumbach, Amy Pascal and David Heyman are producing.
Plot details are vague at this time other then it being a funny and emotional coming-of-age film about adults. Baumbach has an exclusive deal with the studio and previously directed The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — which also starred Sandler — Marriage Story and most recently White Noise.
Partridge is repped by WME and Independent Talent Group,...
Jim Broadbent, Jamie Demetriou, Lars Eidnger, Grace Edwards, Patsy Ferran, Isla Fisher, Greta Gerwig, Thaddea Graham, Josh Hamilton, Eve Hewson, Stacy Keach, Nicôle Lecky, Emily Mortimer, Louis Partridge, Alba Rohrwacher, Charlie Rowe, Parker Sawyers, Alba Rohrwacher, Kyle Soller and Patrick Wilson round out the cast. They join previously announced George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and Riley Keough in the film.
Baumbach is directing and co-wrote the script with Emily Mortimer. Baumbach, Amy Pascal and David Heyman are producing.
Plot details are vague at this time other then it being a funny and emotional coming-of-age film about adults. Baumbach has an exclusive deal with the studio and previously directed The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — which also starred Sandler — Marriage Story and most recently White Noise.
Partridge is repped by WME and Independent Talent Group,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The series shut down production in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Disney’s Star Wars series Andor has resumed filming on its second season at London’s Pinewood Studios.
The series began filming in November 2022 but was shut down in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike action. It reportedly had just two weeks of filming left.
Disney+ recently confirmed that the second series will not be premiering in 2024, as originally scheduled, and has been delayed until 2025.
Created by Tony Gilroy, Andor is a prequel to the 2016 Star Wars film Rogue One and follows the character of Cassian Andor on...
Disney’s Star Wars series Andor has resumed filming on its second season at London’s Pinewood Studios.
The series began filming in November 2022 but was shut down in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike action. It reportedly had just two weeks of filming left.
Disney+ recently confirmed that the second series will not be premiering in 2024, as originally scheduled, and has been delayed until 2025.
Created by Tony Gilroy, Andor is a prequel to the 2016 Star Wars film Rogue One and follows the character of Cassian Andor on...
- 1/11/2024
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Stop me if you’ve heard of this show: it’s a recently released program featuring a romance between two men of differing backgrounds, one serious and straightforward, the other lighthearted and empathetic. It takes place in a period of history generally agreed upon as being unfavorable—or even outwardly hostile—to non-heterosexual relationships. Despite this, the show in question manages to tell a genuine, moving love story, ultimately offering a message of hope through the connection between two of its male characters. Did you assume this show is Max’s Our Flag Means Death? Good guess, but you’re wrong. Granted, Netflix’s limited series Bodies is neither a comedy nor a love story. The bulk of the plot revolves around an unconventional murder mystery, as the same dead body appears in four different time periods. However, romance enters with detective inspector Alfred Hillinghead (Kyle Soller), who, amidst his...
- 11/3/2023
- TV Insider
Bodies is a British sci-fi murder-mystery series created by Paul Tomalin. Based on the DC Vertigo comic and graphic novel of the same name written by Si Spencer, and illustrated by Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick, and Phil Winsdale. The Netflix series follows four different detectives in four different time periods trying to solve the same murder in London. Bodies stars Stephen Graham, Amaka Okafor, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Kyle Soller, Tom Mothersdale, and Synnove Karlsen. So, if you loved the Netflix series here are some similar shows you could watch next.
Dark (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Netflix’s mind-bending German thriller series Dark is the best sci-fi and time-travel series of all time and that is a statement that millions of people will agree with. Dark begins with the disappearance of two children which later on evolves into a sinister conspiracy that involves time travel and connections that tie the whole town together.
Dark (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Netflix’s mind-bending German thriller series Dark is the best sci-fi and time-travel series of all time and that is a statement that millions of people will agree with. Dark begins with the disappearance of two children which later on evolves into a sinister conspiracy that involves time travel and connections that tie the whole town together.
- 10/21/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
In 2014 and 2015, Vertigo published Si Spencer’s eight-issue graphic novel Bodies, a mind-bending mystery about four police officers from different historical eras who discover the same corpse in the same London location, decades apart. Featuring detectives from the present day, the 1940s, the 1890s and 2053, it’s a complex conspiracy thriller about a very dark future. Originally illustrated by four artists – Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick and Tula Lotay – each era had its own distinct feel and look.
Spencer, who had also written on other Vertigo titles including Judge Dredd and Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, sadly passed away in February 2021, meaning he wasn’t able to see Paul Tomalin’s eight-part Netflix series adapted from his work. It’s out now, with a sprawling cast of characters including Boiling Point and This Is England’s Stephen Graham, several established actors and a handful of newcomers. Here’s more about them.
Spencer, who had also written on other Vertigo titles including Judge Dredd and Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, sadly passed away in February 2021, meaning he wasn’t able to see Paul Tomalin’s eight-part Netflix series adapted from his work. It’s out now, with a sprawling cast of characters including Boiling Point and This Is England’s Stephen Graham, several established actors and a handful of newcomers. Here’s more about them.
- 10/19/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Bodies is a 2023 British crime thriller limited series created for Netflix by Paul Tomalin. It is based on the DC Vertigo comic book and graphic novel of the same name written by Si Spencer and illustrated by Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick, and Phil Winslade. It stars Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Amaka Okafor, and Kyle Soller.
Three bodies found under similar circumstances in different time periods will lead us to a future where the same sequence is repeated, but the body is not dead. Similar time periods that share arguments and a connected case to be solved over time.
A mysterious organization is behind it, controlling time.
A repeated phrase.
This new (and highly entertaining) English thriller from Netflix starts with this spectacular plot, which will undoubtedly please fans of the genre. It has it all and knows how to take advantage of and combine science fiction with a detective narrative like Sherlock Holmes.
Three bodies found under similar circumstances in different time periods will lead us to a future where the same sequence is repeated, but the body is not dead. Similar time periods that share arguments and a connected case to be solved over time.
A mysterious organization is behind it, controlling time.
A repeated phrase.
This new (and highly entertaining) English thriller from Netflix starts with this spectacular plot, which will undoubtedly please fans of the genre. It has it all and knows how to take advantage of and combine science fiction with a detective narrative like Sherlock Holmes.
- 10/19/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
Over eight plot-packed hours, Netflix’s time-spanning police drama Bodies never quite falls on its face — high praise for a genre whose convolutions reliably start off entertaining and end up infuriating.
I can’t say Bodies always makes total sense, but it achieves a healthy balance between amusingly ridiculous and just-plain-ridiculous, with its audaciously high-concept narrative consistently elevated by a top-notch cast and strong production values across several time periods. Like Sky Max’s The Lazarus Project, which TNT dropped into domestic obscurity earlier this year, it’s a decently considered dose of mid-intensity time-travel thrills, a satisfying gift for science-fiction fans.
The series begins in the present day with Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor), a London detective sergeant, engaging in a foot pursuit in the middle of a far-right rally and stumbling upon a body on Longharvest Lane.
In 1941, a detective (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd’s Whiteman) in bomb-rattled London gets a...
I can’t say Bodies always makes total sense, but it achieves a healthy balance between amusingly ridiculous and just-plain-ridiculous, with its audaciously high-concept narrative consistently elevated by a top-notch cast and strong production values across several time periods. Like Sky Max’s The Lazarus Project, which TNT dropped into domestic obscurity earlier this year, it’s a decently considered dose of mid-intensity time-travel thrills, a satisfying gift for science-fiction fans.
The series begins in the present day with Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor), a London detective sergeant, engaging in a foot pursuit in the middle of a far-right rally and stumbling upon a body on Longharvest Lane.
In 1941, a detective (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd’s Whiteman) in bomb-rattled London gets a...
- 10/18/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix has unveiled the official full-length trailer for the upcoming series ‘Bodies,’ based on the mind-bending graphic novel by Si Spencer.
Four detectives. Four timelines. One body. When a body – the same body – is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053, one detective from each period must investigate. As connections are drawn across the decades, the detectives soon discover their investigations are linked, and an enigmatic political leader – Elias Mannix (Stephen Graham) – becomes increasingly central. Did he have a part to play in the murder? Or is something far more sinister at play? To solve the mystery, our four detectives must somehow collaborate and uncover a conspiracy spanning over 150 years.
The episode series is directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner (lead), with further episodes by Haolu Wang with a cast that includes Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Amaka Okafor, Kyle Soller and Stephen Graham.
Also in trailers – “The past has me in a headlock…...
Four detectives. Four timelines. One body. When a body – the same body – is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053, one detective from each period must investigate. As connections are drawn across the decades, the detectives soon discover their investigations are linked, and an enigmatic political leader – Elias Mannix (Stephen Graham) – becomes increasingly central. Did he have a part to play in the murder? Or is something far more sinister at play? To solve the mystery, our four detectives must somehow collaborate and uncover a conspiracy spanning over 150 years.
The episode series is directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner (lead), with further episodes by Haolu Wang with a cast that includes Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Amaka Okafor, Kyle Soller and Stephen Graham.
Also in trailers – “The past has me in a headlock…...
- 10/12/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Don’t despair about the end of another non-existent British summer – UK TV always gets good when the weather turns, as the nights draw in and we all retreat indoors, finally getting sick of rainy barbecues and being chased by wasps in pub gardens.
This year is no different, so you can expect your 2023 autumn TV watchlist to include some compelling original dramas, from true crime shows covering some of the UK’s most shocking cases to enthralling depictions of real-life events, from the arrival of the Windrush generation to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Throw in some time-travelling crime-solving, mediaeval sword fights and a criminal gang on the run from a ruthless assassin, and we’ll be enjoying our self-enforced hibernation in front of the telly all the way until Christmas. Here’s what’s coming up, in order of release date.
The Killing Kind
Jane Casey’s novel The Killing Kind...
This year is no different, so you can expect your 2023 autumn TV watchlist to include some compelling original dramas, from true crime shows covering some of the UK’s most shocking cases to enthralling depictions of real-life events, from the arrival of the Windrush generation to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Throw in some time-travelling crime-solving, mediaeval sword fights and a criminal gang on the run from a ruthless assassin, and we’ll be enjoying our self-enforced hibernation in front of the telly all the way until Christmas. Here’s what’s coming up, in order of release date.
The Killing Kind
Jane Casey’s novel The Killing Kind...
- 9/8/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Netflix has launched a teaser trailer for the upcoming series ‘Bodies,’ based on the mind-bending graphic novel by Si Spencer.
Four detectives. Four timelines. One body. When a body – the same body – is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053, one detective from each period must investigate. As connections are drawn across the decades, the detectives soon discover their investigations are linked, and an enigmatic political leader – Elias Mannix (Stephen Graham) – becomes increasingly central. Did he have a part to play in the murder? Or is something far more sinister at play? To solve the mystery, our four detectives must somehow collaborate and uncover a conspiracy spanning over 150 years.
The episode series is directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner (lead), with further episodes by Haolu Wang with a cast that includes Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Amaka Okafor, Kyle Soller and Stephen Graham.
Also in trailers – “Why don’t you come home with me…...
Four detectives. Four timelines. One body. When a body – the same body – is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053, one detective from each period must investigate. As connections are drawn across the decades, the detectives soon discover their investigations are linked, and an enigmatic political leader – Elias Mannix (Stephen Graham) – becomes increasingly central. Did he have a part to play in the murder? Or is something far more sinister at play? To solve the mystery, our four detectives must somehow collaborate and uncover a conspiracy spanning over 150 years.
The episode series is directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner (lead), with further episodes by Haolu Wang with a cast that includes Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Amaka Okafor, Kyle Soller and Stephen Graham.
Also in trailers – “Why don’t you come home with me…...
- 9/1/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"You're not the first detective to discover this body..." Netflix has unveiled an intriguing first teaser trailer for a mysterious new crime series titled Bodies, arriving for streaming on Netflix sometime soon - it's set to debut in October this fall. Not to be confused with the horror comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies from last year - this one also has plenty of dead bodies to deal with, too, but only one Bodies in the title. Four detectives, living in four different eras, find the body of the same murder victim in London's Whitechapel. They soon come to realise their investigations have them central to a mysterious conspiracy spanning over a 150 years. It's set in 1819, 1941, 2023, and even 2053 in the near future. "As the mind-scrambling pulsewave plagues the last survivors of a terrifying techno-apocalypse, the amnesiac young woman known only as Maplewood can barely understand the body she's discovered." The series stars Shira Haas,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“You’re not the first detective to discover this body.” This intriguing line begins the official teaser trailer for Netflix’s “Bodies,” an upcoming series with one hell of a compelling hook.
In “Bodies,” four detectives, living in four different eras – 1890, 1941, 2023 & 2053 – find the body of the same murder victim in London’s Whitechapel. They soon come to realize their investigations have them central to a mysterious conspiracy spanning over 150 years.
“It’s going to blow your mind,” today’s official teaser trailer promises.
The eight-episode series from the United Kingdom premieres October 19, 2023, and it’s based on the same-titled graphic novel from creator Si Spencer that was published in 2015.
Shira Haas, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Kyle Soller, Amaka Okafor and Stephen Graham star.
Paul Tomalin (“Torchwood”) created “Bodies” for Netflix.
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In “Bodies,” four detectives, living in four different eras – 1890, 1941, 2023 & 2053 – find the body of the same murder victim in London’s Whitechapel. They soon come to realize their investigations have them central to a mysterious conspiracy spanning over 150 years.
“It’s going to blow your mind,” today’s official teaser trailer promises.
The eight-episode series from the United Kingdom premieres October 19, 2023, and it’s based on the same-titled graphic novel from creator Si Spencer that was published in 2015.
Shira Haas, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Kyle Soller, Amaka Okafor and Stephen Graham star.
Paul Tomalin (“Torchwood”) created “Bodies” for Netflix.
The post “Bodies” Teaser Trailer – Netflix Mystery Series Sees the Same Dead Body Appear in Four Different Eras appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!
- 8/31/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
If there was a Gif for the moment, it may be Michael Scott running around like a headless chicken screaming for everyone to “stay calm.”
“Madness,” one leading transatlantic agent messaged yesterday as it dawned that the historic SAG-AFTRA strike would likely be going ahead.
Indeed, contract negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP broke off last night and the guild’s national board will meet this morning U.S. time to formally approve the launch of a strike. As we reported, it will be the first actors’ strike since 1980 and the first time that actors and writers have been on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild. Picketing is set to begin Friday morning.
Deadline set out how Hollywood may be impacted by a SAG strike in late June and the impact on an international business already affected by the WGA...
“Madness,” one leading transatlantic agent messaged yesterday as it dawned that the historic SAG-AFTRA strike would likely be going ahead.
Indeed, contract negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP broke off last night and the guild’s national board will meet this morning U.S. time to formally approve the launch of a strike. As we reported, it will be the first actors’ strike since 1980 and the first time that actors and writers have been on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild. Picketing is set to begin Friday morning.
Deadline set out how Hollywood may be impacted by a SAG strike in late June and the impact on an international business already affected by the WGA...
- 7/13/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
While the premiere “Andor” Season 2 remains just over a year away, it’s safe to say it’s easily the most hyped series in the “Star Wars” Disney+ upcoming lineup. Yup, more so than “Ahsoka” or “The Acolyte,” or more episodes of “The Mandalorian.” And fans already know a little about what they should expect in new episodes of “Andor.” For one, Season 2 runs twelve episodes, with a time jump in the narrative every three episodes.
Continue reading ‘Andor’ Stars Denise Gough, Adria Arjona & Kyle Soller Hint About How Their Characters Change In Upcoming Second Season at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Andor’ Stars Denise Gough, Adria Arjona & Kyle Soller Hint About How Their Characters Change In Upcoming Second Season at The Playlist.
- 6/22/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Crime dramas can sit on a pretty broad spectrum: some are campy, cosy and even comfortingly formulaic, whereas others make you need to sleep with the light on. The one guarantee is that in the UK at least, there’s such an appetite for detectives and crime stories that TV will never run out of new cases to solve.
We’ve already had some top examples in 2023, from the Happy Valley and Endeavour finales to the excellent Belfast-based Blue Lights, but there are plenty more fresh crime dramas on the way, from police procedurals to true crime and murder mysteries. See what’s coming up below.
After The Flood
Very much what it says on the tin, After The Flood begins… after a flood, which devastates a town, but when the waters clear they leave behind an unidentified dead man in the lift of an underground car park. PC Joanna Marshall is on the case,...
We’ve already had some top examples in 2023, from the Happy Valley and Endeavour finales to the excellent Belfast-based Blue Lights, but there are plenty more fresh crime dramas on the way, from police procedurals to true crime and murder mysteries. See what’s coming up below.
After The Flood
Very much what it says on the tin, After The Flood begins… after a flood, which devastates a town, but when the waters clear they leave behind an unidentified dead man in the lift of an underground car park. PC Joanna Marshall is on the case,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
For a decade and a half, Nick Fury has been a pillar of the Marvel Cinematic Universe feature on the show’s, well, secrets.
You’ll find copies on newsstands from Thursday 11 May – but for now, take a sneak peek inside the pages below. Become an Empire member here.
Secret Invasion
Spies. Skrulls. Samuel L. Jackson. The MCU’s next blockbuster series is bringing the MCU back to Earth for a gritty, noir-inspired espionage thriller, pitching Nick Fury into a political, paranoia-fulled mystery – and nobody is to be trusted. Empire gets the full story on a Marvel series like no other, speaking to stars Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, director Ali Selim and producer Jonathan Schwartz – and a declassified batch of brand new images.
Star Wars Blowout
This year’s Star Wars Celebration brought a swathe of the galaxy’s brightest stars to London,...
You’ll find copies on newsstands from Thursday 11 May – but for now, take a sneak peek inside the pages below. Become an Empire member here.
Secret Invasion
Spies. Skrulls. Samuel L. Jackson. The MCU’s next blockbuster series is bringing the MCU back to Earth for a gritty, noir-inspired espionage thriller, pitching Nick Fury into a political, paranoia-fulled mystery – and nobody is to be trusted. Empire gets the full story on a Marvel series like no other, speaking to stars Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, director Ali Selim and producer Jonathan Schwartz – and a declassified batch of brand new images.
Star Wars Blowout
This year’s Star Wars Celebration brought a swathe of the galaxy’s brightest stars to London,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
“It was a gift of a role, to be honest,” reveals Andy Serkis about portraying the charismatic inmate-turned-revolutionary Kino Loy in “Andor.” For our recent webchat he adds that, “the series as a whole, I adored, but then I adored “Rogue One.” When you’re working with someone like Tony Gilroy,” he says, “he is a man who has a lot to say about the world that we live in,” adding, “Tony is one of those writers who just hits the bullseye with character. He just knows the turns and the levels and the layers.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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“Andor” is the fourth Disney+ live-action series in the “Star Wars” franchise, serving as a prequel to “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (2016) and also by extension to the original Oscar-winning classic “Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope...
- 5/8/2023
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Denise Gough has done enough television to know that sometimes what you read in a script doesn’t always make it to the screen. And even after filming was completed, Gough thought that could be the case with the “Star Wars” prequel series, “Andor.” What the two-time Olivier Award winner wasn’t banking on was that Tony Gilroy was running the show.
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Gough and co-star Kyle Soller, who plays Syrill, were paired for the program’s initial press junket last summer.
Continue reading Denise Gough Promises ‘Andor’ Season 2 Will Be “Epic” [Interview] at The Playlist.
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Gough and co-star Kyle Soller, who plays Syrill, were paired for the program’s initial press junket last summer.
Continue reading Denise Gough Promises ‘Andor’ Season 2 Will Be “Epic” [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 5/3/2023
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Star Wars Celebration kicked off its opening day in London today with a non-stop series of announcements about some of the year’s most highly anticipated productions—from Disney+ original series including ‘Star Wars: Ahsoka’ and ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ to upcoming feature films including “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
Throughout the day, surprises kept fans’ spirits high as a parade of actors and Lucasfilm luminaries took to the stage to reveal exciting new information about landmark productions.
Taking place at the ExCel London Convention Center, Friday’s activities on the Celebration Stage began with host Ali Plumb welcoming Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy to reflect on the success of the highly acclaimed Disney+ original series ‘Star Wars: Andor.’ They were joined by the series’ director/creator/showrunner Tony Gilroy and stars Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly, Andy Serkis, Muhannad Bahair and Joplin Sibtain,...
Throughout the day, surprises kept fans’ spirits high as a parade of actors and Lucasfilm luminaries took to the stage to reveal exciting new information about landmark productions.
Taking place at the ExCel London Convention Center, Friday’s activities on the Celebration Stage began with host Ali Plumb welcoming Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy to reflect on the success of the highly acclaimed Disney+ original series ‘Star Wars: Andor.’ They were joined by the series’ director/creator/showrunner Tony Gilroy and stars Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly, Andy Serkis, Muhannad Bahair and Joplin Sibtain,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
London, England – April 07: Ali Plumb, Kathleen Kennedy, James Mangold, Dave Filoni, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy onstage durng the studio panel at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London at ExCel on April 07, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images for Disney)
Star Wars Celebration kicked off its opening day in London today with a non-stop series of announcements about some of the year’s most highly anticipated productions—from Disney+ original series including “Star Wars: Ahsoka” and “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” to upcoming feature films including “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
Throughout the day, surprises kept fans’ spirits high as a parade of actors and Lucasfilm luminaries took to the stage to reveal exciting new information about landmark productions.
London, England – April 07: (L-r) Ali Plumb, Kathleen Kennedy, Tony Gilroy, Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly and Andy Serkis onstage during the studio panel...
Star Wars Celebration kicked off its opening day in London today with a non-stop series of announcements about some of the year’s most highly anticipated productions—from Disney+ original series including “Star Wars: Ahsoka” and “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” to upcoming feature films including “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
Throughout the day, surprises kept fans’ spirits high as a parade of actors and Lucasfilm luminaries took to the stage to reveal exciting new information about landmark productions.
London, England – April 07: (L-r) Ali Plumb, Kathleen Kennedy, Tony Gilroy, Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly and Andy Serkis onstage during the studio panel...
- 4/7/2023
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fans may not be getting any new “Star Wars” movies in the near future, but that’s just because the future of the galaxy — at least for now — is in television. And there are a lot of shows coming to the universe.
But what exactly is there beyond the Skywalker Saga? Let’s run it down. Below, you’ll find all the information we have about the upcoming slate of “Star Wars” TV shows, from “Andor” Season 2 to “Ahsoka.” We’ve got release dates, episode counts and all the names you’ll become familiar with.
Ahsoka Mary Elizabeth Winstead in “Ahsoka” (Lucasfilm/Disney)
Premiere Date: August 2023
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Hayden Christensen, Natasha Liu, Ivanna Sakhno and Ray Stevenson
Number of Episodes: Tbd
Ahsoka Tano made her live-action “Star Wars” debut in the second season of “The Mandalorian,” but was originally introduced in the animated “Clone Wars” and “Rebels” series.
But what exactly is there beyond the Skywalker Saga? Let’s run it down. Below, you’ll find all the information we have about the upcoming slate of “Star Wars” TV shows, from “Andor” Season 2 to “Ahsoka.” We’ve got release dates, episode counts and all the names you’ll become familiar with.
Ahsoka Mary Elizabeth Winstead in “Ahsoka” (Lucasfilm/Disney)
Premiere Date: August 2023
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Hayden Christensen, Natasha Liu, Ivanna Sakhno and Ray Stevenson
Number of Episodes: Tbd
Ahsoka Tano made her live-action “Star Wars” debut in the second season of “The Mandalorian,” but was originally introduced in the animated “Clone Wars” and “Rebels” series.
- 4/7/2023
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
This year's "Star Wars Celebration" has officially kicked off, with Lucasfilm's Studio Showcase opening the highly-anticipated event with exciting details about the second season of "Andor." Tony Gilroy's gritty, grounded take on "Star Wars" has a second season in the works, which is aiming for an estimated August 2024 premiere date, per Gilroy himself, who revealed the news during the event's opening panel:
"We started shooting in November [2022]. We're about halfway through. We're going to shoot through August [2023]. We're on the exact schedule. Finish in August, spend another year on post. I suppose we'll come out the following August."
Apart from Gilroy, the entire cast of "Andor" graced the stage during the segment, including the adorable droid B2EMO, who stuttered out a "Hello London! I am so v-v-v-very pleased to meet you all." Diego Luna, who plays the titular rebel spy in "Andor," talked about how happy he is to return to London,...
"We started shooting in November [2022]. We're about halfway through. We're going to shoot through August [2023]. We're on the exact schedule. Finish in August, spend another year on post. I suppose we'll come out the following August."
Apart from Gilroy, the entire cast of "Andor" graced the stage during the segment, including the adorable droid B2EMO, who stuttered out a "Hello London! I am so v-v-v-very pleased to meet you all." Diego Luna, who plays the titular rebel spy in "Andor," talked about how happy he is to return to London,...
- 4/7/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
The cast and creator of Disney+’s Andor kicked off this year’s Star Wars Celebration on Friday morning in London, where a timetable was revealed for Season 2.
Tony Gilroy — the showrunner for Andor who previously penned the screenplay for its “sequel,” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — shared at Star Wars Celebration that Season 2, which started rolling the cameras last November, is now halfway done with filming.
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Tony Gilroy — the showrunner for Andor who previously penned the screenplay for its “sequel,” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — shared at Star Wars Celebration that Season 2, which started rolling the cameras last November, is now halfway done with filming.
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- 4/7/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Luscasfilm unveiled its first look at Season 2 of its Disney+ series “Andor” on Friday as part of the Star Wars Celebration fan convention in London.
The 12-episode first season of “Andor,” created and executive produced by “Rogue One” co-writer Tony Gilroy, debuted in September to wide acclaim for its sprawling, ground-level depiction of the formation of the Rebel Alliance. Set five years before the events of “Rogue One,” the first season tracks a year in the life of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he transforms from a cynical, small-time criminal into a man ready to join the fight against the Galactic Empire.
Gilroy explained on Friday that the team is working as quickly as possible to get Season 2 done. Shooting began in November and is expected to wrap in August. The creator predicted the show will hit Disney+ in August 2024.
“If you know your ending, it really helps,” said Gilroy.
The 12-episode first season of “Andor,” created and executive produced by “Rogue One” co-writer Tony Gilroy, debuted in September to wide acclaim for its sprawling, ground-level depiction of the formation of the Rebel Alliance. Set five years before the events of “Rogue One,” the first season tracks a year in the life of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he transforms from a cynical, small-time criminal into a man ready to join the fight against the Galactic Empire.
Gilroy explained on Friday that the team is working as quickly as possible to get Season 2 done. Shooting began in November and is expected to wrap in August. The creator predicted the show will hit Disney+ in August 2024.
“If you know your ending, it really helps,” said Gilroy.
- 4/7/2023
- by Adam B. Vary and Amon Warmann
- Variety Film + TV
“Andor” is a strong contender to crack the Emmy Best Drama Series lineup this year, earning favorable reviews and awards buzz after its Disney Plus premiere last fall. But is there room on the nominees list for two ‘Star Wars’ shows, with the sophisticated sci-fi noir competing against “The Mandalorian,” its comrade from a galaxy far, far away? That show’s third season (currently streaming weekly) is in the hunt for a third consecutive nomination in the top category after its breakthrough in 2020 and follow-up nomination in 2021.
“The Mandalorian” became the third space-set drama ever nominated in Best Drama Series after “Star Trek: The Next Generation” three decades ago in 1994 and the original “Star Trek” almost three decades before that in 1967 and 1968. There’s a real possibility that “Andor” will be the fourth.
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“The Mandalorian” became the third space-set drama ever nominated in Best Drama Series after “Star Trek: The Next Generation” three decades ago in 1994 and the original “Star Trek” almost three decades before that in 1967 and 1968. There’s a real possibility that “Andor” will be the fourth.
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- 3/21/2023
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of "The Mandalorian."
Talk about a change of pace. After easing viewers back into the flow of things during its first two episodes of the new season, episode 3 of "The Mandalorian" season 3 begins innocently enough with an extended aerial battle between Pedro Pascal's Din Djarin and Katee Sackhoff's Bo-Katan and a fleet of Tie Interceptors. But then it does something altogether unlike "The Mandalorian" as we've come to know it over the years. We suddenly shift gears completely and proceed to spend the bulk of the hour without any of our usual heroes. In fact, we follow one of the earliest antagonists established in the series: the sinister Dr. Penn Pershing (Omid Abtahi), one of the main architects behind Moff Gideon's (Giancarlo Esposito) attempts to kidnap and experiment on little Grogu.
If such a dramatic change in perspective and setting wasn't jarring enough,...
Talk about a change of pace. After easing viewers back into the flow of things during its first two episodes of the new season, episode 3 of "The Mandalorian" season 3 begins innocently enough with an extended aerial battle between Pedro Pascal's Din Djarin and Katee Sackhoff's Bo-Katan and a fleet of Tie Interceptors. But then it does something altogether unlike "The Mandalorian" as we've come to know it over the years. We suddenly shift gears completely and proceed to spend the bulk of the hour without any of our usual heroes. In fact, we follow one of the earliest antagonists established in the series: the sinister Dr. Penn Pershing (Omid Abtahi), one of the main architects behind Moff Gideon's (Giancarlo Esposito) attempts to kidnap and experiment on little Grogu.
If such a dramatic change in perspective and setting wasn't jarring enough,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
For two decades, the SAG Awards all but ignored science fiction on TV. There were exceptions, of course — the ensembles of “3rd Rock From the Sun,” “The X-Files” and “Lost” were all nominated, and John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson earned individual recognition. It wasn’t until the 2016 SAG Awards — when the first seasons of “Westworld” and “Stranger Things” both earned nominations for their ensembles and their respective stars Thandie Newton, Millie Bobby Brown and Winona Ryder — that the guild began to regularly consider sci-fi performances as worthy of recognition alongside other series.
Even then, however, nominated shows “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Lovecraft Country” and “Squid Game” sit on the fringes of what most people even consider to be science fiction. This year, the SAG Awards have the opportunity to nominate ensembles and performances on multiple shows that sit enthusiastically at sci-fi’s center.
Most obviously, there’s multiple-Emmy nominee “Severance,...
Even then, however, nominated shows “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Lovecraft Country” and “Squid Game” sit on the fringes of what most people even consider to be science fiction. This year, the SAG Awards have the opportunity to nominate ensembles and performances on multiple shows that sit enthusiastically at sci-fi’s center.
Most obviously, there’s multiple-Emmy nominee “Severance,...
- 12/28/2022
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Whether you’re looking for celebrity deep-dives, debauched dramas, cosy book adaptations or the return of old favourites, there is plenty of television to feast your eyes on in 2023.
Stephen Graham is starring in a new Netflix crime drama, Bodies, while Lily Rose-Depp and The Weeknd can be seen in the new show from Euphoria writer Sam Levinson, The Idol.
David Nicholls’s bestselling novel One Day is being adapted for TV, and shows from Big Brother to Succession are returning to telly.
There are also comedies starring familiar faces such as Simon Bird and Lily Allen, and tell-all documentaries from Robbie Williams and Pamela Anderson.
Here’s what we’re most looking forward to over the next 12 months…
Pamela: A Love Story
Netflix, 31 January
Pamela Anderson was conspicuously quiet when the show based on her life, Pam & Tommy, came out in February 2022. Now, we know why: she’s been...
Stephen Graham is starring in a new Netflix crime drama, Bodies, while Lily Rose-Depp and The Weeknd can be seen in the new show from Euphoria writer Sam Levinson, The Idol.
David Nicholls’s bestselling novel One Day is being adapted for TV, and shows from Big Brother to Succession are returning to telly.
There are also comedies starring familiar faces such as Simon Bird and Lily Allen, and tell-all documentaries from Robbie Williams and Pamela Anderson.
Here’s what we’re most looking forward to over the next 12 months…
Pamela: A Love Story
Netflix, 31 January
Pamela Anderson was conspicuously quiet when the show based on her life, Pam & Tommy, came out in February 2022. Now, we know why: she’s been...
- 12/28/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
Whether you’re looking for celebrity deep-dives, debauched dramas, cosy book adaptations or the return of old favourites, there is plenty of television to feast your eyes on in 2023.
Stephen Graham is starring in a new Netflix crime drama, Bodies, while Lily Rose-Depp and The Weeknd can be seen in the new show from Euphoria writer Sam Levinson, The Idol.
David Nicholls’s bestselling novel One Day is being adapted for TV, and shows from Big Brother to Succession are returning to telly.
There are also comedies starring familiar faces such as Simon Bird and Lily Allen, and tell-all documentaries from Robbie Williams and Pamela Anderson.
Here’s what we’re most looking forward to over the next 12 months…
Pamela: A Love Story
Netflix, 31 January
Pamela Anderson was conspicuously quiet when the show based on her life, Pam & Tommy, came out in February 2022. Now, we know why: she’s been...
Stephen Graham is starring in a new Netflix crime drama, Bodies, while Lily Rose-Depp and The Weeknd can be seen in the new show from Euphoria writer Sam Levinson, The Idol.
David Nicholls’s bestselling novel One Day is being adapted for TV, and shows from Big Brother to Succession are returning to telly.
There are also comedies starring familiar faces such as Simon Bird and Lily Allen, and tell-all documentaries from Robbie Williams and Pamela Anderson.
Here’s what we’re most looking forward to over the next 12 months…
Pamela: A Love Story
Netflix, 31 January
Pamela Anderson was conspicuously quiet when the show based on her life, Pam & Tommy, came out in February 2022. Now, we know why: she’s been...
- 12/28/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
“I love ‘Star Wars,’ I’ve watched ‘Star Wars’ for my whole life,” reveals Diego Luna, the star of the latest and most critically acclaimed live action “Star Wars” project since the film it presages, the 2016 spin-off “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” For our recent webchat he adds about the thrill of being a part of this universe, “now I have kids I’m glad there’s room for new things, for something different to this universe and I am happy to be part of that.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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“Andor” is the fourth Disney+ live-action series in the “Star Wars” franchise, serving as a prequel to “Rogue One” (2016) and by extension also to the original Oscar-winning classic “Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope” (1977). Luna, who serves as an executive producer on the series, reprises his role from...
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“Andor” is the fourth Disney+ live-action series in the “Star Wars” franchise, serving as a prequel to “Rogue One” (2016) and by extension also to the original Oscar-winning classic “Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope” (1977). Luna, who serves as an executive producer on the series, reprises his role from...
- 12/22/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Major spoilers ahead for the "Andor" season finale.
Syril (Kyle Soller) and Dedra (Denise Gough) are the ickiest couple to exist in a Star Wars project, and that includes Luke and Leia after the audience learned that they were related. This particular "Andor" ship is horrifying. Dedra is a cold-blooded bureaucrat in the Isb who cares about nothing but order and putting down the rebels. Syril is an order-obsessed toady who is clearly stalking her as a substitute for his monster of an overbearing mother (Kathryn Hunter). He admires her to the point of devotion. Yes, they both worship order, but the idea of a relationship between them is horrifying.
... So why do we want them to kiss already?
I can practically feel you shuddering over the internet, but you know it's true. In the final episode of "Andor" season 1, Dedra is caught up in the Ferrix riot during Maarva's...
Syril (Kyle Soller) and Dedra (Denise Gough) are the ickiest couple to exist in a Star Wars project, and that includes Luke and Leia after the audience learned that they were related. This particular "Andor" ship is horrifying. Dedra is a cold-blooded bureaucrat in the Isb who cares about nothing but order and putting down the rebels. Syril is an order-obsessed toady who is clearly stalking her as a substitute for his monster of an overbearing mother (Kathryn Hunter). He admires her to the point of devotion. Yes, they both worship order, but the idea of a relationship between them is horrifying.
... So why do we want them to kiss already?
I can practically feel you shuddering over the internet, but you know it's true. In the final episode of "Andor" season 1, Dedra is caught up in the Ferrix riot during Maarva's...
- 11/28/2022
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
It would be fun to be a fly on the wall at Lucasfilm as they discuss the performance of “Andor” Season 1. Without a doubt, the “Star Wars” series is the most critically acclaimed show Lucasfilm has released on Disney+. However, it doesn’t appear that viewership is really on par with some of the other “Star Wars” series. Or any of them really.
Continue reading ‘Andor’: Kyle Soller Says Everyone Is “Turning It Up To 11” for Season 2 & Teases “More People, More Planets, More Worlds” at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Andor’: Kyle Soller Says Everyone Is “Turning It Up To 11” for Season 2 & Teases “More People, More Planets, More Worlds” at The Playlist.
- 11/28/2022
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
"He is a new kind of hero for a new age. His name is Andor." This is where that ol' phrase "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" makes sense - a long time ago in 1975, a Star Wars series aired on television. Ha ha. A YouTube channel created this glorious fan-made TV intro for the Andor series replicating the 70s TV intro style. It's kind of amazing! Set five years before the events of Rogue One, the series follows rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative years of the Rebellion. It's showrun and created by writer Tony Gilroy. Diego Luna returns as Andor, with a cast featuring Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, as well as Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma; plus Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera. "It's 1975. A New Hope won't be released for another two years, and George Lucas is...
- 11/28/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Warning: The following interview has spoilers of Andor‘s Season 1 finale “Rix Road” on Disney+
Star Wars creator George Lucas once wrote about “the taxation of trade routes” in the opening prologue of Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menance, and if Disney+’s Star Wars series has given die-hard fans anything, it’s the binary, granular look at how such universe politics come to be.
While The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett have been intoxicated by callbacks to legacy characters and all-things atmospheric from Lucas and even Star Wars animation architect Dave Filoni’s imaginings, Gilroy has focused on the smaller conversations — the clerical details if you will, of how a bureaucratic Imperial force rises and how a rebellion among disparate factions comes together —.
One such jaw-dropping detail revealed in the epilogue: Those big steel wheels that Cassian and the Narkina 5 prisoners were assembling a few episodes ago were parts for the Death Star’s firing cannon. Duh. It’s those type of Easter eggs that Andor has thrived on, versus, say deep universe cameos from the Filoni animation shows.
(L-r): Corv (Noof Ousellam), Lieutenant Keysax (Nick Moss), Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) and Captain Vanis Tigo (Wilf Scolding)
Season 1 completes the first year in rebel-to be Cassian Andor’s life. He returns to Ferrix for his adoptive mother Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) funeral, but he can’t exactly be out in the open. The Imperials are sniffing out something is about to go down, and it does, as droid B2Emo projects a hologram of Maarva before the crowd, and in Obi-Wan style, encourages them to fight the power (“Fight the Empire!”). At which point, there’s an outburst worse than a drunk Mardi Gras with pipe bombs going off. Let the Star Wars begin. Andor escapes through furnace tunnels, and Imperial Security Bureau supervisor Dedra Meero (the sublime Denise Gough) is trampled by protestors, only to be rescued by her twin flame, anti-Andor, uber-Imperial wannabe Syril Karn (Kyle Soller). It was just a few episodes ago, she was playing hard to get. Now it looks to be a romance steamier than anything on Grey’s Anatomy.
All things end on Luthen Rael’s (Stellan Skarsgård) Fondor, where he’s confronted by Cassian.
“You came to kill me,” Andor says. “You don’t make it easy,” answers Luthen.
“I will now,” Andor says, giving up. “Kill me… or take me with.”
Luthen grins, knowing that Andor is part of the Rebel cause.
Here’s our interview with Andor creator Tony Gilroy, who was taking a break from shooting season 2 over in England:
Maarva (Fiona Shaw) in a scene from Lucasfilm’s Andor, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & Tm. All Rights Reserved.
Deadline: Was there something in history that the Season 1 finale was inspired by? Especially with everything that is going on in Ukraine.
Tony Gilroy: It’s just so incredibly sad how easily available all of the things that seemed contemporaneously sad are through history, and that they just continue to repeat themselves.
There are things all the way through the show, and I don’t want to go through and quote chapter and verse, but this is the Russian Revolution. This is the Montagnard. This is something interesting that happened in the Haitian Revolution. This is the Anc. Oh, this is the Earth Gun Building, Palestine. This is the Continental Congress. This goes all the way…I mean, you could drop a needle in the last, I don’t know what is recorded history, 3,000 years, legitimate recorded, I mean, slavery, oppression, colonialism, bad behavior, betrayal, heroism, I mean, it’s a continuum.
Deadline: The fleshing out of Rebel cofounder Mon Mothma – she feels like a nod to Nancy Pelosi. She’s this upper class person who knows she’s a catalyst to make a difference and right wrongs.
Gilroy: Her job description is Senator, longtime politician, power player, doesn’t get everything she wants, doesn’t get everything he wants. I certainly wasn’t thinking about the American Speaker of the House when I was writing the scripts.
Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) in Lucasfilm’s Andor
Deadline: The cliffhanger where Cassian lays his life on the line and faces off with Luthen Rael — were you always planning that?
Gilroy: I said we take 12 episodes, across a year, we’ll take this entire expanse of time, and we’ll take somebody who’s completely disillusioned and completely self-interested and really having the worst day of their life, and just someone who’s turning into a roach, and we’re going to turn that person in one year, we’re going to make the first turn to being the guy who’s in Rogue One, and we’re going to make him sign up.
And so, yeah, the final moment of this is a blood out. It took us this long to do it. It is what it is, the road to Damascus, or it’s 12 stations of the cross, or whatever context you want to put it in. He’s gone through everything to become: To sort of give a blood out at the end of the show and say, ‘That’s it, I’m in.’ His commitment to the Rebellion and to fight the Empire and to dedicate his life to that, we’re not going to put that in doubt now. Going forward, we have a whole bunch of new issues that we’re going to deal with. But that final line was on the table before many other things were worked up.
Deadline: Mapping out next season, how many episodes per each year of Cassian’s life?
Gilroy: We’re going to cover in the next 12 episodes, we’re going to cover the next four years. So, each block of three episodes that we shoot, and that happens to be our organizing principle for production.
So, when we come back for our second half, it’ll be a year later. An entire year will have gone on. All kinds of things will have happened, and we’ll pick up the show; sometimes we’ll do a week, we’ll do three days, we’ll do four days, whatever, and then we’ll drop a year in between.
The last one will be the last, I don’t know what it is, three, four days before the beginning of Rogue One, and then our final scene has always been known, which will be walking him into the first scene of Rogue One. So, we will be dealing with time in a different way, but it’ll be blocks of three. That’ll be our principle.
Deadline: Can you tease Season 2?
Gilroy: We will be dealing with, by the time you get to Rogue One, you have the Rebel Alliance, which is a whole bunch of different disparate factions and people that have arrived at Yavin and have coalesced into what will become an organized rebellion. Well, we have four years to examine how difficult it is to put a revolution together, how difficult it is to become a leader, how difficult it is to be a victim.
But what happens to the original gangsters? What happens to the outliers? What happens to the people who were…every revolution consumes people and glorifies people, and not always the people that did the thing that mattered. How do you scale up something that essentially does not thrive in sunshine? How do you that? And those issues and all the chaos of that is going to be of great interest to us going forward.
Duncan Pow, who plays Melshi, will be back. Obviously, we’re playing there with that, because he’s going to be in Rogue One.
Deadline: The Imperials seem to be making Cassian a more notorious guy than he really is. They seem to be giving him this larger than life reputation. Do you agree?
Gilroy: One doesn’t even really know who he really is. They don’t even really know how bad he is. They don’t know. I mean, they think he might have been in Aldhani, but the reason that Denise Gough’s Dedra Meero is trying to get him so bad — it’s a great hunter and hunted relationship. It’s a desperate thing and she’s right to be chasing him. She’s thinks enough like him that she’s the first person who realizes that Aldhani isn’t a robbery, it’s an announcement. And she’s going to be chasing him for a long time, and you know, Cassian is the link. That is the only viable link that she can find. If she can find him, she might find Luthen. Stellan’s Luthen doesn’t know who Cassian is.
Deadline: That epilogue with the building of the Death Star, was that always in the cards?
Gilroy: Yeah, when we came up with the prison and then we started saying, ‘What are we making?’ and then we built the thing. It’s like, ‘Oh, my God. Well, let’s have it do that. How ironic and how potent and how round and synchronicitis that is.’
And then, Mohen Leo and Tj Falls, who are visual arts department, who are just amazing and they were on Rogue One, they were like, ‘Oh, let us play with that.’ And you know, six months later you go into a visual master deal and it’s like, oh, we have a special gift to launch today and it’s like, the raw version of that, it was so cool. They did all that and we helped refine it, but it’s their piece as well.
The Q&a was edited for length and clarity.
Star Wars creator George Lucas once wrote about “the taxation of trade routes” in the opening prologue of Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menance, and if Disney+’s Star Wars series has given die-hard fans anything, it’s the binary, granular look at how such universe politics come to be.
While The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett have been intoxicated by callbacks to legacy characters and all-things atmospheric from Lucas and even Star Wars animation architect Dave Filoni’s imaginings, Gilroy has focused on the smaller conversations — the clerical details if you will, of how a bureaucratic Imperial force rises and how a rebellion among disparate factions comes together —.
One such jaw-dropping detail revealed in the epilogue: Those big steel wheels that Cassian and the Narkina 5 prisoners were assembling a few episodes ago were parts for the Death Star’s firing cannon. Duh. It’s those type of Easter eggs that Andor has thrived on, versus, say deep universe cameos from the Filoni animation shows.
(L-r): Corv (Noof Ousellam), Lieutenant Keysax (Nick Moss), Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) and Captain Vanis Tigo (Wilf Scolding)
Season 1 completes the first year in rebel-to be Cassian Andor’s life. He returns to Ferrix for his adoptive mother Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) funeral, but he can’t exactly be out in the open. The Imperials are sniffing out something is about to go down, and it does, as droid B2Emo projects a hologram of Maarva before the crowd, and in Obi-Wan style, encourages them to fight the power (“Fight the Empire!”). At which point, there’s an outburst worse than a drunk Mardi Gras with pipe bombs going off. Let the Star Wars begin. Andor escapes through furnace tunnels, and Imperial Security Bureau supervisor Dedra Meero (the sublime Denise Gough) is trampled by protestors, only to be rescued by her twin flame, anti-Andor, uber-Imperial wannabe Syril Karn (Kyle Soller). It was just a few episodes ago, she was playing hard to get. Now it looks to be a romance steamier than anything on Grey’s Anatomy.
All things end on Luthen Rael’s (Stellan Skarsgård) Fondor, where he’s confronted by Cassian.
“You came to kill me,” Andor says. “You don’t make it easy,” answers Luthen.
“I will now,” Andor says, giving up. “Kill me… or take me with.”
Luthen grins, knowing that Andor is part of the Rebel cause.
Here’s our interview with Andor creator Tony Gilroy, who was taking a break from shooting season 2 over in England:
Maarva (Fiona Shaw) in a scene from Lucasfilm’s Andor, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & Tm. All Rights Reserved.
Deadline: Was there something in history that the Season 1 finale was inspired by? Especially with everything that is going on in Ukraine.
Tony Gilroy: It’s just so incredibly sad how easily available all of the things that seemed contemporaneously sad are through history, and that they just continue to repeat themselves.
There are things all the way through the show, and I don’t want to go through and quote chapter and verse, but this is the Russian Revolution. This is the Montagnard. This is something interesting that happened in the Haitian Revolution. This is the Anc. Oh, this is the Earth Gun Building, Palestine. This is the Continental Congress. This goes all the way…I mean, you could drop a needle in the last, I don’t know what is recorded history, 3,000 years, legitimate recorded, I mean, slavery, oppression, colonialism, bad behavior, betrayal, heroism, I mean, it’s a continuum.
Deadline: The fleshing out of Rebel cofounder Mon Mothma – she feels like a nod to Nancy Pelosi. She’s this upper class person who knows she’s a catalyst to make a difference and right wrongs.
Gilroy: Her job description is Senator, longtime politician, power player, doesn’t get everything she wants, doesn’t get everything he wants. I certainly wasn’t thinking about the American Speaker of the House when I was writing the scripts.
Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) in Lucasfilm’s Andor
Deadline: The cliffhanger where Cassian lays his life on the line and faces off with Luthen Rael — were you always planning that?
Gilroy: I said we take 12 episodes, across a year, we’ll take this entire expanse of time, and we’ll take somebody who’s completely disillusioned and completely self-interested and really having the worst day of their life, and just someone who’s turning into a roach, and we’re going to turn that person in one year, we’re going to make the first turn to being the guy who’s in Rogue One, and we’re going to make him sign up.
And so, yeah, the final moment of this is a blood out. It took us this long to do it. It is what it is, the road to Damascus, or it’s 12 stations of the cross, or whatever context you want to put it in. He’s gone through everything to become: To sort of give a blood out at the end of the show and say, ‘That’s it, I’m in.’ His commitment to the Rebellion and to fight the Empire and to dedicate his life to that, we’re not going to put that in doubt now. Going forward, we have a whole bunch of new issues that we’re going to deal with. But that final line was on the table before many other things were worked up.
Deadline: Mapping out next season, how many episodes per each year of Cassian’s life?
Gilroy: We’re going to cover in the next 12 episodes, we’re going to cover the next four years. So, each block of three episodes that we shoot, and that happens to be our organizing principle for production.
So, when we come back for our second half, it’ll be a year later. An entire year will have gone on. All kinds of things will have happened, and we’ll pick up the show; sometimes we’ll do a week, we’ll do three days, we’ll do four days, whatever, and then we’ll drop a year in between.
The last one will be the last, I don’t know what it is, three, four days before the beginning of Rogue One, and then our final scene has always been known, which will be walking him into the first scene of Rogue One. So, we will be dealing with time in a different way, but it’ll be blocks of three. That’ll be our principle.
Deadline: Can you tease Season 2?
Gilroy: We will be dealing with, by the time you get to Rogue One, you have the Rebel Alliance, which is a whole bunch of different disparate factions and people that have arrived at Yavin and have coalesced into what will become an organized rebellion. Well, we have four years to examine how difficult it is to put a revolution together, how difficult it is to become a leader, how difficult it is to be a victim.
But what happens to the original gangsters? What happens to the outliers? What happens to the people who were…every revolution consumes people and glorifies people, and not always the people that did the thing that mattered. How do you scale up something that essentially does not thrive in sunshine? How do you that? And those issues and all the chaos of that is going to be of great interest to us going forward.
Duncan Pow, who plays Melshi, will be back. Obviously, we’re playing there with that, because he’s going to be in Rogue One.
Deadline: The Imperials seem to be making Cassian a more notorious guy than he really is. They seem to be giving him this larger than life reputation. Do you agree?
Gilroy: One doesn’t even really know who he really is. They don’t even really know how bad he is. They don’t know. I mean, they think he might have been in Aldhani, but the reason that Denise Gough’s Dedra Meero is trying to get him so bad — it’s a great hunter and hunted relationship. It’s a desperate thing and she’s right to be chasing him. She’s thinks enough like him that she’s the first person who realizes that Aldhani isn’t a robbery, it’s an announcement. And she’s going to be chasing him for a long time, and you know, Cassian is the link. That is the only viable link that she can find. If she can find him, she might find Luthen. Stellan’s Luthen doesn’t know who Cassian is.
Deadline: That epilogue with the building of the Death Star, was that always in the cards?
Gilroy: Yeah, when we came up with the prison and then we started saying, ‘What are we making?’ and then we built the thing. It’s like, ‘Oh, my God. Well, let’s have it do that. How ironic and how potent and how round and synchronicitis that is.’
And then, Mohen Leo and Tj Falls, who are visual arts department, who are just amazing and they were on Rogue One, they were like, ‘Oh, let us play with that.’ And you know, six months later you go into a visual master deal and it’s like, oh, we have a special gift to launch today and it’s like, the raw version of that, it was so cool. They did all that and we helped refine it, but it’s their piece as well.
The Q&a was edited for length and clarity.
- 11/24/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Spoilers for season 1 of "Andor," including the finale, follow.
Of all the Star Wars shows that Disney announced, "Andor" was the one that nobody was excited about. It's a prequel about a character from a spin-off film who — spoiler alert! — dies at the end of the movie. There is literally nowhere for this character to go; traveling to his past feels like, well, going backwards. And yet, "Andor" features some of the best storytelling we have ever gotten from Star Wars. It is grounded and gritty, with nary a Jedi in sight. It is glorious.
One of the worst things about modern Star Wars is just how self-referential the franchise has become. In-your-face cameos and clumsy fanservice is the norm, often coming at the expense of the overall story. Fortunately, "Andor" bucks this trend, going out of its way to not give us the cinematic equivalent of, "Hey, remember this?...
Of all the Star Wars shows that Disney announced, "Andor" was the one that nobody was excited about. It's a prequel about a character from a spin-off film who — spoiler alert! — dies at the end of the movie. There is literally nowhere for this character to go; traveling to his past feels like, well, going backwards. And yet, "Andor" features some of the best storytelling we have ever gotten from Star Wars. It is grounded and gritty, with nary a Jedi in sight. It is glorious.
One of the worst things about modern Star Wars is just how self-referential the franchise has become. In-your-face cameos and clumsy fanservice is the norm, often coming at the expense of the overall story. Fortunately, "Andor" bucks this trend, going out of its way to not give us the cinematic equivalent of, "Hey, remember this?...
- 11/24/2022
- by Eric Pierce
- Slash Film
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[This story contains spoilers for Andor season one.]
Now that Andor season one has come to a close, creator Tony Gilroy is already off and running on season two.
The showrunner of the critically acclaimed Disney+ Star Wars series is currently embarking on a shoot that will last through August 2023, but he still managed to carve out some time to answer some of the lingering questions from the season one finale.
In “Rix Road,” the citizens of Ferrix were so inspired by Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) parting words via hologram that they fought back against the Imperial forces that had been occupying their town for quite some time. Cassian (Diego Luna), who couldn’t help but risk everything to return home for his adoptive mother’s funeral, managed to spot spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) in the crowd, and once he freed Bix (Adria Arjona) from captivity and...
[This story contains spoilers for Andor season one.]
Now that Andor season one has come to a close, creator Tony Gilroy is already off and running on season two.
The showrunner of the critically acclaimed Disney+ Star Wars series is currently embarking on a shoot that will last through August 2023, but he still managed to carve out some time to answer some of the lingering questions from the season one finale.
In “Rix Road,” the citizens of Ferrix were so inspired by Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) parting words via hologram that they fought back against the Imperial forces that had been occupying their town for quite some time. Cassian (Diego Luna), who couldn’t help but risk everything to return home for his adoptive mother’s funeral, managed to spot spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) in the crowd, and once he freed Bix (Adria Arjona) from captivity and...
- 11/23/2022
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Andor” Season 1 starts and ends with Ferrix.
Cassian Andor’s (Diego Luna) adopted home planet is where his journey began, as “a nobody…who’s fucked it all up.” The Season 1 finale, written by Tony Gilroy and directed by Benjamin Caron, covers the funeral proceedings of Cassian’s mother figure Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw), as all the characters converge on what they know will be a pivotal moment.
It’s the first time everyone on “Andor” — with the minor exception of Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly), who has her own agenda and troubles brewing — is so singularly focused on the same thing for the same reason. Luthen (Stellan Skårsgard) and his rebels always had their missions, Syril (Kyle Soller) and Dedra (Denise Gough) had their own methods of enforcing Empiric agenda, and civilians steered clear of it all — including Cassian himself. He returns home knowing the risk and that there’s a target on his back,...
Cassian Andor’s (Diego Luna) adopted home planet is where his journey began, as “a nobody…who’s fucked it all up.” The Season 1 finale, written by Tony Gilroy and directed by Benjamin Caron, covers the funeral proceedings of Cassian’s mother figure Maarva Andor (Fiona Shaw), as all the characters converge on what they know will be a pivotal moment.
It’s the first time everyone on “Andor” — with the minor exception of Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly), who has her own agenda and troubles brewing — is so singularly focused on the same thing for the same reason. Luthen (Stellan Skårsgard) and his rebels always had their missions, Syril (Kyle Soller) and Dedra (Denise Gough) had their own methods of enforcing Empiric agenda, and civilians steered clear of it all — including Cassian himself. He returns home knowing the risk and that there’s a target on his back,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
Warning: Contains spoilers for Andor: Season 1
“Faster, more intense!” That was always George Lucas’ direction to his actors while shooting Star Wars. When devising the narrative tone of his galaxy far, far away, he wanted pulp. He wanted adventure. He wanted energy. In his head, he saw a combination of propulsive TV serials, Flash Gordon space operatics, and epic samurai mythology, all told with the technical mastery of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Since no-one else quite got exactly what Lucas was going for with Star Wars until it arrived, it all came down to those three words to get the feeling across: Faster. More intense. That ethos has informed Star Wars stories ever since – whether chronicling the fall of the Republic, the raging of the Clone Wars, the battle for the Death Star plans, the reawakening of the Force, or the bond between a bounty hunter and his tiny green surrogate-son,...
“Faster, more intense!” That was always George Lucas’ direction to his actors while shooting Star Wars. When devising the narrative tone of his galaxy far, far away, he wanted pulp. He wanted adventure. He wanted energy. In his head, he saw a combination of propulsive TV serials, Flash Gordon space operatics, and epic samurai mythology, all told with the technical mastery of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Since no-one else quite got exactly what Lucas was going for with Star Wars until it arrived, it all came down to those three words to get the feeling across: Faster. More intense. That ethos has informed Star Wars stories ever since – whether chronicling the fall of the Republic, the raging of the Clone Wars, the battle for the Death Star plans, the reawakening of the Force, or the bond between a bounty hunter and his tiny green surrogate-son,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - TV
The Disney+ Star Wars series Andor just had its finale, and now the season can be viewed as a whole. The show, which served as a prequel to the 2016 Star Wars spin-off, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, received a 93 on Rotten Tomatoes as well as an 83 audience score. Fans and critics alike praised the show for being unique to the franchise without having to rely on nostalgia and fan service to tell a self-contained story.
According to metrics, the show trailed behind other Star Wars series, such as The Mandolorian, according to the Nielson’s streaming ratings. The viewership, although lacking, still garnered enough to earn the series into the top 10 most-watched streaming shows during its entire run. The lackluster numbers are likely why Disney is giving the show an extra push by making episodes available on broadcast television that can be viewed by non-subscribers.
For those who are interested,...
According to metrics, the show trailed behind other Star Wars series, such as The Mandolorian, according to the Nielson’s streaming ratings. The viewership, although lacking, still garnered enough to earn the series into the top 10 most-watched streaming shows during its entire run. The lackluster numbers are likely why Disney is giving the show an extra push by making episodes available on broadcast television that can be viewed by non-subscribers.
For those who are interested,...
- 11/23/2022
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
There will be spoilers for "Andor" Episode Xii - "Rix Road"
"Andor" closes its first season strong with "Rix Road," the twelfth episode from Tony Gilroy and team, building on the framework of the funeral for Maarva (Fiona Shaw). Just about everyone heads to Ferrix, either returning or coming for the first time, to fulfill their own goals and ends. Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) heads to Ferrix to capture Cassian in a bid to learn the identity of Axis — the man in charge of the rebel activity she hopes to quash. Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) join Sinta (Varada Sethu) on Ferrix so they can kill Cassian Andor to prevent the Empire from getting any more information about the nascent rebellion. Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) and Sergeant Mosk (Alex Ferns) head to the funeral in the hopes of bringing Cassian to Justice.
And, of course, Cassian...
"Andor" closes its first season strong with "Rix Road," the twelfth episode from Tony Gilroy and team, building on the framework of the funeral for Maarva (Fiona Shaw). Just about everyone heads to Ferrix, either returning or coming for the first time, to fulfill their own goals and ends. Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) heads to Ferrix to capture Cassian in a bid to learn the identity of Axis — the man in charge of the rebel activity she hopes to quash. Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) join Sinta (Varada Sethu) on Ferrix so they can kill Cassian Andor to prevent the Empire from getting any more information about the nascent rebellion. Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) and Sergeant Mosk (Alex Ferns) head to the funeral in the hopes of bringing Cassian to Justice.
And, of course, Cassian...
- 11/23/2022
- by Bryan Young
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the entire first season of Andor, which is streaming now on Disney+.
A lot of memorable things happen in the Andor Season One finale. Marva (Fiona Shaw) digitally rises from the dead, as her impassioned, pre-recorded funeral speech inspires the people of Ferrix to rise up against their Imperial oppressors. The riot that ensues is, like so much of Andor, visceral and tactile in a way that very little of Star Wars has been since the original trilogy. At one point, disgraced ex-security guard Syril...
A lot of memorable things happen in the Andor Season One finale. Marva (Fiona Shaw) digitally rises from the dead, as her impassioned, pre-recorded funeral speech inspires the people of Ferrix to rise up against their Imperial oppressors. The riot that ensues is, like so much of Andor, visceral and tactile in a way that very little of Star Wars has been since the original trilogy. At one point, disgraced ex-security guard Syril...
- 11/23/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Throughout each episode of "Andor" to this point, the Tony Gilroy-created series has taken pains to set itself apart from the previous installments of Disney-owned "Star Wars" that have come before. As established in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," the protagonist Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is far different than any other Rebel we've yet seen. The central story unfolds in a way that puts story and character first -- not Easter eggs, cross-pollinating cameos, and other types of fan-service. And in terms of villains, there might not be a single other figure in canon who can rival the terrifying, methodical, and relentless fanaticism of Syril Karn.
Portrayed brilliantly (and chillingly) by the always thoughtful actor Kyle Soller, Syril has undergone an oddly compelling arc from a jumped-up security goon to a pathetic wretch quietly enduring his mother's icy disapproval to an obsessive true believer in the Empire's authoritarian cause.
Portrayed brilliantly (and chillingly) by the always thoughtful actor Kyle Soller, Syril has undergone an oddly compelling arc from a jumped-up security goon to a pathetic wretch quietly enduring his mother's icy disapproval to an obsessive true believer in the Empire's authoritarian cause.
- 11/17/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
There will be spoilers for "Andor" Episode XI - "Daughter of Ferrix."
"Daughter of Ferrix," the penultimate episode of the first season of "Andor," sets the stage for what will likely prove to be a breathtaking finale. Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) has been able to escape from prison and works to find a path forward alongside Melshi (Duncan Pow). Things have taken a turn for the worse on Ferrix, though. Maarva (Fiona Shaw), Cassian's mom, has passed away and a funeral for her is being planned. As word spreads of her demise, the Isb, Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård), Syril Karn (Kyle Soller), and everyone else, make plans to be there in anticipation of Cassian showing up.
On Coruscant, Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) confesses to her cousin, Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay), just how bad things have gotten, while Vel herself aims to make them worse by causing trouble for Luthen.
"Daughter of Ferrix," the penultimate episode of the first season of "Andor," sets the stage for what will likely prove to be a breathtaking finale. Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) has been able to escape from prison and works to find a path forward alongside Melshi (Duncan Pow). Things have taken a turn for the worse on Ferrix, though. Maarva (Fiona Shaw), Cassian's mom, has passed away and a funeral for her is being planned. As word spreads of her demise, the Isb, Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård), Syril Karn (Kyle Soller), and everyone else, make plans to be there in anticipation of Cassian showing up.
On Coruscant, Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) confesses to her cousin, Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay), just how bad things have gotten, while Vel herself aims to make them worse by causing trouble for Luthen.
- 11/16/2022
- by Bryan Young
- Slash Film
In the lead-up to the upcoming “Andor” finale on Disney+, The Walt Disney Company will air the first two episodes of the series across networks including ABC, FX and Freeform, and also make it available to view on sister streamer Hulu.
“Andor” episodes “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me” will be made available on the following schedule across the Thanksgiving holiday, with Hulu offering an extended streaming window:
ABC: Wednesday November 23, 9 p.m. Et FX: Thursday, November 24, 9 p.m. Et Freeform: Friday, November 25, 9 p.m. Et Hulu: Available from November 23 through December 7
The two-episode finale for the Disney+ “Star Wars” series, which stars Diego Luna as Cassian Andor, premieres on Wednesday, November 23.
Additional cast members for the series include Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Fiona Shaw, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis. The executive producers are Kathleen Kennedy, Tony Gilroy, Sanne Wohlenberg, Luna and Michelle Rejwan.
“Andor” episodes “Kassa” and “That Would Be Me” will be made available on the following schedule across the Thanksgiving holiday, with Hulu offering an extended streaming window:
ABC: Wednesday November 23, 9 p.m. Et FX: Thursday, November 24, 9 p.m. Et Freeform: Friday, November 25, 9 p.m. Et Hulu: Available from November 23 through December 7
The two-episode finale for the Disney+ “Star Wars” series, which stars Diego Luna as Cassian Andor, premieres on Wednesday, November 23.
Additional cast members for the series include Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Fiona Shaw, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis. The executive producers are Kathleen Kennedy, Tony Gilroy, Sanne Wohlenberg, Luna and Michelle Rejwan.
- 11/15/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
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