When Does Andor Season 2 Come Out?

Andor‘s first 12-episode season wrapped up with Cassian Andor’s story only half-finished – leaving Star Wars fans desperate for the rest. So, when does Andor Season 2 come out?

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When Does Andor Season 2 Premiere on Disney+?

Andor Season 2 debuts on Disney+ on April 22, 2025. Showrunner Tony Gilroy previously indicated that the show’s second 12-episode season would arrive in August 2024, however, the 2023 WGA and SAG strikes ultimately derailed this scheduling. Even so, many Andor devotees continued to hold out hope for a 2024 release, despite a Gizmodo source close to the production claiming that Lucasfilm and Disney+ were targeting a 2025 debut for Andor Season 2. But for more pragmatic fans, the odds of getting more Andor in 2024 seemed slim, given Disney+’s existing slate of Star Wars programming for the year left little room for yet another show.

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And scheduling logistics aside, Andor Season 2 probably wasn’t finished in time for a 2024 slot anyway. Principal photography only wrapped in February 2024, and Gilroy publicly shot down suggestions Andor‘s next batch of episodes would whizz through post-production. “The only place you can accelerate the processes is in post,” he told Collider in November 2022. “And the only way you can accelerate in post is with money, and money is tight… Rogue One proved, if you throw money at it, you can do post really, really fast. It’s just very, very, very expensive.”

Andor Showrunner Teases Season 2’s Story

Fortunately, Andor Season 2 will be worth the wait, if Gilroy’s comments over the past couple of years are anything to go by. Notably, the showrunner has promised a compelling character arc for Cassian Andor, evolving him beyond his current freedom fighter status. “Cassian’s commitment to the cause is not in doubt. If [Season 1] was about him becoming a revolutionary, then the second half is about him becoming a leader,” said Gilroy in a November 2022 Polygon interview.

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Gilroy has also talked up Andor Season 2’s narrative overlap with 2016 spinoff movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. “When we come back, it’ll be literally like a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,” Gilroy told  Deadline in June 2023. “And then, we’ll jump a year, and then it’ll be, like, four or five days, and then we’ll jump a year, and then there’ll be another four or five days, and then we jump a year, and be another four or five days. Our last block is the last three days before Rogue One. So, the last shot will be walking into Rogue One. So, you can imagine that we have to do a lot of interlacing at the end, with the [Star Wars] calendar.”

Andor Season 2 arrives on Disney+ on April 22, 2025.

The above article was updated on 11/12/2024 by the original author to reflect Andor Season 2’s release date.