Cassian Andor

From Return of the Jedi - The Empire 1 comic (one-shot issue to coincide with the re-release).

TLDR: Ben's great, more Ben please

None of Season 1's directors returned for Season 2. A leak on Reddit (from someone whose other reveals had turned out to be true) has said that Tony Gilroy had yelled at Susanna White in front of her crew. Of the three directors, it's noteworthy that she's the only one not to do any press for Andor. The reason given for Haynes and Caron not returning is that they're in-demand and had other projects, but I would question whether filming a single episode of Black Mirror really prevented Haynes from further involvement in Andor.

I'm sure Season 2 will be great, but the new directors don't all have same level of experience (especially with shooting in the UK), plus many of them will be doing without it a showrunner (although maybe that's a good thing?)

Heretical thought I know, that it'd be anyone other than Jimmy Smits, but I read that Bratt had been cast, and was wondering what his role would be. Bratt's a bit younger than Smits (but not as much as I'd assumed).

One Way Out: Andor Season 1

A Flawed Masterpiece - A Rogue One Video Essay

(NERD point: at one point she speculates whether Pao - the Drabatan Commando - was named after Duncan Pow [Melshi], when ackshually, he was named after Chris Weitz's son Paolo)

Right now, I'm the guy looking at the butterfly thinking "Is this an Andor meme?", rather than just enjoying the movie or whatever. But Nimona is really good btw (and bonus points: it has Riz Ahmed [Bodhi] in it!)

I never watched the trailers before the show, but they're very good. The music for the teaser, especially, really evokes the show.

Tansy Gardam (from the Going Rogue podcast) has said it's Tony Gilroy, but I think it's more likely to be his brother. Unsurprisingly, they sound alike, and John has spoke about providing temp dialogue from his editing station.
So I think that scene is just one where they didn't bother to replace his voice with an actor's.

The credits last episode I saw has writer's names separated by the word 'and' (rather than an '&' to show they were working together), and a line for "Director of Photography for Additional Photography".

In other words, they had to do re-writes and re-shoots for a 30 minute episode of television. Given that, it's not surprising that the end result hasn't lived up to the promise.

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Andor Episode 07

Andor Episode 08

Andor Episode 09

Andor Episode 10

Andor Episode 11

Andor Episode 12

Notes:
This insert shot for the reshoot of Cassian's "Spies, Assassins, Saboteurs" speech is merged with Principal Photography of the scene, with the gang appearing in the background, and then shots of Jynn used to mask the transition.
It must have created a lot of work for costumers, make-up artists, hairstylists, etc, getting 20 dudes looking exactly the same as they did a few months ago. Expensive way to make a movie!
K2 is also at the back of the group, but he wasn't mo-capped by Alan Tudyk. Likewise, they used a stunt performer for K2's "rescue" of Jynn on Wobani. He was present to film his death, though.
None of the Additional Photography was shot on the large, purpose-built sets they originally built. This scene gets noticeably livelier at the end, back to using footage from when the cast were on the set for Yavin IV.

Transcribed from an old, mostly in-French, interview with Gareth Edwards:

We felt we needed to have some characters in the film that represented a belief in the force, because there's no Jedi in our movie - it was in an era when they'd all been made extinct, in theory. And so, to try and get inspiration I'd watch the things that inspired George Lucas, which was the original Akira Kurosawa film The Hidden Fortress and in that film there are two asian characters that bicker and squabble a lot, and they became, eventually, R2-D2 and C-3PO in the final movie. So we just rewound time and didn't make them droids, and kept them as two asian characters fighting. They were like the yin-yang of our film - the Belief and the Not-Belief, like War and Peace, which became Baze and Chirrut.

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First Interview, for episodes 1-4
Second Interview, for episodes 5-9
Last Interview, for episodes 10-12