Andor: Succession Composer to Score Disney+ Star Wars Series

February 17, 2022

According to the Film Music Reporter, Emmy-winning composer Nicholas Britell has officially signed on to score the music for Lucasfilm’s next Disney+ prequel series Andor. The Diego Luna-led series is slated to make its debut later this year, with twelve episodes.

Britell is best known for his works on films such as Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Vice, and Cruella as well as the HBO hit drama Succession, which earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He recently received his third Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.

Disney+’s Andor features Diego Luna as he reprises his role of Cassian Andor. Set five years before the events of Rogue One, the series will follow the adventures of the titular hero rebel spy during the formative years of the Rebellion. It will explore tales of espionage and daring missions to restore hope to a galaxy in the grip of a ruthless Empire.

The new Star Wars prequel series will also star franchise alums Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma and Alan Tudyk as Cassian’s droid sidekick K-2SO, who reportedly won’t appear in the first season. It has also been rumored that Forest Whitaker and Ben Mendelsohn are reportedly reprising their respective roles as Saw Gerrera and Director Orson Callan Krennic.

Additional cast also includes Star Wars newcomers Denise Gough, Stellan Skarsgård, Kyle Soller, and Adria Arjona.

Andor is executive produced by showrunner Tony Gilroy, who previously directed the reshoots for Rogue One. Gilroy was originally expected to direct the three episodes but was forced to give up the position to Black Mirror‘s Toby Haynes due to pandemic-related travel issues. Production is currently underway in the United Kingdom.

The 2016 film was a critical and box-office hit with a gross of over $1 billion worldwide. It starred Luna, Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker, and Ben Mendelsohn.