Andor trailer: 5 things we’ve learned about the Rogue One prequel

‘To steal from the Empire, you simply stroll in such as you belong. They’re so happy with themselves,’ Cassian says in a voiceover, whereas photographs of the Galactic Senate are proven. Followers will, after all, keep in mind this iconic set from a number of of the Star Wars prequels most memorable scenes.

We additionally get a cheeky cameo from Sport of Thrones’ Anton Lesser, who was recognized for taking part in Cersei Lannister’s creepy butler-slash-doctor-slash-secretary, Maester Qyburn.

Gritty Star Wars’ exhibits are right here to remain

What follows are a sequence of photographs coated in mud, oil, and the grinding of metallic, which confirms that the collection will stick with it the custom that Rogue One arguably began – spending time with the gritty underbelly of the Star Wars universe, at those that endure the consequences of the Empire’s tyranny however have acquired little or no display screen time till very current years.

As a parade of Storm Troopers walks by the digital camera, Stellan Skarsgard’s Luthen provides the trailer its second voiceover: ‘Cassian Andor, the Empire is choking your soul slowly. We’re beginning now to note. All I’m asking is that this: Wouldn’t you moderately give all of it to one thing actual?’

Forest Whitaker is again

Star Wars followers thought they’d seen the final of Forest Whitaker’s Noticed Gerrera when he was worn out by the Empire on desert planet Jedha – the Empire have been testing a brand new planet-destroying weapon and Gerrera determined he was executed operating away from hazard.

We see him reprise his function as he stands reverse Stellan Skarsgard – the trailer follows Skarsgard’s Luthen for fairly some time. ‘I would like all of the heroes I can get,’ Luthen says to Gerrera. ‘For the better good,’ Gerrera responds.

‘Name it what you’ll,’ Luthen teases, earlier than Gerrera is open and sincere about the place this story is heading: ‘Let’s name it… warfare’.

It’s not all going to be grit and gloom

That is Star Wars. It wouldn’t Star Wars with out some laser-firing, spaceship racing, huge spectacle motion. After exhibiting us the dirty streets that belong to Andor, we transition to the pie-in-the-sky, impossibly skyscraping cities, with adorned penthouses and glamorous halls harking back to all these council scenes within the prequel trilogy.

We see Luthen once more – this time, as a substitute of donning a darkish hood to crawl the streets and meet with the primary sparks of the Revolt, he greets individuals with smiles in rooms a number of hundred ft within the sky, earlier than piloting a spacecraft and heading into battle: ‘I’m not slipping, I’ve simply been hiding for too lengthy.’

The visible results division have been onerous at work

It wouldn’t be Star Wars with out heavy use of spectacular CGI, and Andor doesn’t appear like it’s going to disappoint in that regard. The trailer closes with a montage of pictures that appear like they have been very, very costly to place collectively.

One shot particularly options (presumably) Cassian flying in direction of an unknown location that appears mightily lovely. The subsequent shot sees him on the run in his ship from pursuing TIE fighters, so we will presume that we would need to take a second to bask within the magnificence earlier than returning to a tense fight sequence.

Watch Andor on Disney+ from September 21.

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