Andor Season 2 Could Bring Back Ben Mendelsohn's Rogue One Villain

Prequel movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the crushed we person standout Disney+ bid Andor. Now, a report says one of the movie’s cardinal villains whitethorn origin into the much-anticipated 2nd play of the Star Wars show: Ben Mendelsohn’s ambitious Imperial weapons developer Orson Krennic.

You retrieve Krennic, of course; he’s the feline who forces idiosyncratic Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) backmost into moving connected his favored project, a definite top-secret mega-weapon for the Empire that has the quality to annihilate full planets. While Lucasfilm has yet to officially denote Mendelsohn (last seen connected Disney+ successful Marvel bid Secret Invasion) arsenic portion of Andor play two’s cast, it surely makes sense, arsenic his character’s timeline aligns precisely with Cassian Andor’s communicative starring up to the events of Rogue One.

And present 1 of Andor season two’s directors, Alonso Ruizpalacios, has seemingly fto it gaffe that Mendelsohn’s Krennic is so going to beryllium successful the mix. Chatting with the Playlist, the Ruizpalacios was cautious not to uncover galore circumstantial details, though helium seemingly named names, telling the outlet “directing episodes of the bid was a treat, particularly directing heavyweight actors like, ‘Stellan Skarsgård, Forest Whitaker, and Ben Mendelsohn,’ presumably not realizing helium was revealing thing of a spoiler.” Skarsgård and Whitaker (reprising his ain Rogue One character, Saw Gerrera) were successful play 1 of the Disney+ series; Mendelsohn was not.

io9 has reached retired to Lucasfilm for confirmation, and volition update this station if we perceive back. In the meantime, we’ll instrumentality immoderate Andor scrap to feast connected portion we proceed waiting for its return—probably, hopefully, successful 2025.

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