Whereas Andor was ostensibly a Rogue One prequel collection that targeted on Diego Luna’s Cassian, a number of different characters from the movie additionally confirmed up at one level or one other throughout the Disney + streaming collection. Clearly, Genevieve O’Reilly’s Mon Mothma performed an instrumental function on the present, however we additionally acquired lengthy appears at Noticed Gerrera (Forest Whitaker), Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn), and Ruescott Melshi (Duncan Pow).

Not solely that, however Andor creator Tony Gilroy was so insistent on bringing Rogue One’s Bail Organa onto the present that he even recast the function from Jimmy Smits to Benjamin Bratt after Smits was unavailable for filming.

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So with all these acquainted faces, and with Gilroy saying that Rogue One would end proper the place Andor begins, naturally Star Wars followers couldn’t assist however surprise if Cassian’s accomplice in Scarif crime, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), could be making an look within the finale. Alas, it was not meant to be. However did Gilroy ever contemplate it?

"No," the showrunner tells Leisure Weekly. “I used to be requested that a number of occasions. I attempted to sketch some variations alongside the way in which of what we’d do. Episode 12 could be very distinctive. It's its personal vitality and we’re not attempting to hype something in 12. We at all times knew it was going to be not a low vitality, however a special form of episode.”

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Nevertheless, that doesn’t imply the chances of extra Rogue returns didn’t enter Gilroy’s mind. “I couldn't consider a approach to get the rest from Rogue One, actually,” he says. However as soon as Cassian was knowledgeable on the present he wanted to fulfill informant Tivic — connecting the character to his very first scene of the film — it appeared we’d get to not less than see the insurgent spy earlier than his premature demise.

“I at all times thought, ‘Oh my God, I'm going to should cope with Tivic the spy!’” says Gilroy. “Ought to I cope with Galen Erso? And was there anyone else? I actually thought I used to be going to have to make use of Danny Mays as Tivic. I assumed, ‘Properly, we in all probability ought to.’”

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Till the showrunner modified his thoughts and determined they in all probability shouldn’t, which prolonged all the way in which to Jyn. “In the long run, I spotted if folks didn't completely should be there, they shouldn’t. And it will've been lame to deliver Jyn again as a cameo. That may've been actually disrespectful in a method. I'd somewhat honor Rogue and hold it straight.”

In fact, that closing shot of the collection exhibiting Bix carrying Cassian’s child might have Rogue One followers occupied with Jyn anyway, and reassessing their tackle the doomed duo. Says a laughing Gilroy, “I imply, individuals who thought that was the love of his life are going to should reorient their considering.”

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