Almost three after the massive success of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 2016– and several failed iterations of a Rogue One spinoff series about the characters of Cassian Andor and K-2SO– Hollywood script doctor Tony Gilroy had finally decided to write his friend Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, a long-overdue letter; one that took the experiment that he, Gareth Edwards, and the cast and crew of Rogue One had started years ago to the next level. It wasn’t just his pitch for what a Cassian Andor series should be all about; it was Gilroy’s manifesto, framing the Star Wars Galaxy as the backdrop for a story about a revolutionary in-the-making, set upon a collision-course with history, destiny, and the unrelenting forces of oppression.

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