Like the rest of the leading characters in Rogue One , which slots nicely between Solo and A New Hope when going through the Star Wars movies in order , Ben Mendelsohn ’s Orson Krennic didn’t make it out alive. However, just because we know his story ends with him being killed by the weapon he spent his Imperial career obsessed with doesn’t mean there aren’t more stories to tell involving him. Case in point, Mendelsohn is reprising Krennic for Andor Season 2 , which will finally debut on the 2025 TV schedule next April, and I’m delighted to hear from the actor who his character will be clashing with at this point in the Star Wars timeline.
It turns out Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin wasn’t the only high-ranking Imperial officer with whom Orson Krennic butted heads. In an interview with Empire , Mendesohn shared that the gloriously-caped baddie will encounter resistance from Denise Gough’s Dedra Meero, who was one of the main antagonists in Andor Season 1. Mendelsohn started off by saying: If they didn’t see eye to eye, to me, it’s cute.
Dedra versus Krennic? I think it’s a bit of a mismatch. They’re all underlings to Krennic. With Andor Season 1 taking place five years before Rogue One , and Season 2 (which finished filming in February) set to cover the remaining four-year gap, we’re looking in on Orson Krennic when he was still supervising the construction of the first Death Star.
In fact, Season 1’s ending showed that the machinery made at the Narkina 5.