Andor, the best Star Wars show, returns for its final season in April

Disney has revealed the release date the second and final season of Star Wars: Andor, and the world is a little brights. We'll be watching the continuing adventures of budding rebel freedom fighter Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. This news comes straight from the official Star Wars page.

Disney has made a lot of Star Wars spinoff shows over the past several years. Andor is prequel to the 2016 movie Rogue One, about attempts to steal plans for the Death Star. If you'd told me at the time that a prequel to that movie revolving around someone who wasn't even the main character would go on to become the best of those spinoffs, I wouldn't have believed you. But the first season of Andor blew open the Star Wars universe in ways that fans had never seen, completely eschewing lightsaber-swinging Jedis to focus on the ordinary men and women fighting against the Empire, and the control-obsessed bureaucrats on the other side keeping it going.

The result was a show that older Star Wars fans had long said they wanted: a mature, complicated series made with adult audiences in mind. I don't think a show being "mature" or "adult" is worth celebrating for its own sake — Star Wars started as a simple tale of good vs evil and it's still getting plenty of gas out of that concept — but it this case it worked wonderfully, and I'm looking forward to season 2.

The second season of Andor will have 12 episodes, divided into four three-episode blocks. Each block will tell a story that takes place over a few days as Cassian Andor continues to grow into the rebel diehard he is in Rogue One. The whole season will take place over four years. There's no word on how exactly Disney will roll the episodes out, but in the first season it dropped the first three all at once and then released one per week until it was over.

Captain America fights the president in trailer for Captain America: Brave New World

Disney is busy today. Down at a D23 event in Brazil, they unveiled a new trailer for Captain America: Brave New World, starring Anthony Mackie as the up-jumped Captain America, now with wings. Watch below:

Mackie's character Sam Wilson was given the mantle of Captain America by the original guy, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), at the end of Avengers: Endgame, and grew into the role over the course of the Disney+ show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Now he's fully come into his own. The villain of the piece is Thaddeus Ross, played by actor William Hurt in the past and now by Harrison Ford, after Hurt passed in 2022. Ross is the president now, and apparently can also turn into a Hulk. A Red one. Politics are crazy.

Anyway, Captain America: Brave New World drops into theaters on Febuary 14, 2025. Happy Valentines. While they were at it, Disney also dropped a new trailer for Thunderbolts, about a bunch of antiheroes from past Marvel movies who team up for one daring mission. Take a look:

Thunderbolts will catch us up with the likes of Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), fake Captain America John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and anti-Nick Fury Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Also Lewis Pullman plays a mysterious new character named Bob.

Thunderbolts comes out on May 2, 2025.

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