Star Wars Director Speaks Out On Canon Challenges In Disney+’s Andor

In just a matter of weeks, Star Wars fans will finally get to sink their teeth into Andor on Disney+. The series serves as a direct prequel to Star Wars: Rogue One, following Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor who was introduced in the 2016 big-screen epic.

Andor will carry on the dark tone from Rogue One, with the “hard edges” of the Star Wars universe being a focus of showrunner Tony Gilroy. Taking place between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, the streaming series will seemingly fill in some blanks left in the Star Wars story.

But as one would expect, this is a delicate dance in moving around different elements of an ever-expanding intergalactic narrative. And Gilroy has spoken out on Andor‘s place in the timeline and how hard it was to not step on too many toes of other titles in the galaxy far, far away….