Left: Rebel leader Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna).
SPOILER ALERT: THEY all die at the end. For a film whose final word spoken is “hope”, Rogue One might be Star Wars’ darkest adventure — one in which all of its heroes, including Felicity Jones’ Jyn Erso and Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor, give their lives to smuggle the Death Star plans to the Rebels. Now, the film positioned as an immediate predecessor to A New Hope is begetting its own immediate predecessor —
Disney+ series Andor, telling the story of Luna’s conflicted warrior set amid the rising tide of the Empire, as galactic citizens begin fighting back, which creator Tony Gilroy said, at Star Wars Celebration, will “walk you into Rogue [One].” The story of rebellion is far from over.