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Kassa (Andor)
"Kassa" is the first episode of the American streaming television series ''Andor'', based on ''Star Wars'' created by George Lucas. It was written by Tony Gilroy and directed by Toby Haynes. The episode stars Diego Luna as Cassian Andor, who reprises his role from the ''Star Wars'' spinoff film, ''Rogue One'' (2016). Haynes was hired in September 2020 after a production delay due the COVID-19 pandemic, and Gilroy joined the series as showrunner in early 2019, replacing Stephen Schiff. Both executive produce alongside Luna and Kathleen Kennedy. "Kassa" was released on Disney+ on September 21, 2022, along with " That Would Be Me" and "Reckoning", as a three-part series premiere. Plot Five years before the Battle of Yavin, Cassian Andor travels to the industrial planet of Morlana One on the trail of his missing sister. While searching for her in a brothel, Cassian is antagonized by two Pre-Mor Authority security officers. An altercation between the trio ensues outside the brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor (TV Series)
''Andor'', also known as ''Star Wars: Andor'', is an American science-fiction action-adventure television series created by Tony Gilroy for the streaming service Disney+. It is the fourth live-action series in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, as well as a prequel to both the spin-off film ''Rogue One'' (2016) and the original ''Star Wars'' film (1977). The series follows thief-turned- Rebel spy Cassian Andor during the five years that lead to the events of the two above-mentioned films. Diego Luna reprises his role as Cassian Andor and also serves as an executive producer. The ensemble cast also includes Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Fiona Shaw, Stellan Skarsgård, Denise Gough, Genevieve O'Reilly, Faye Marsay, Varada Sethu, and Elizabeth Dulau, among others. Lucasfilm announced a series focused on Andor in November 2018, with Luna attached and Stephen Schiff hired as showrunner. Schiff was replaced by ''Rogue One'' co-writer Gilroy as creator and showrunner in April 2020. Filming b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Wars
''Star Wars'' is an American epic space opera multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into various films and other media, including television series, video games, novels, comic books, theme park attractions, and themed areas, comprising an all-encompassing fictional universe. ''Star Wars'' is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The original film (''Star Wars''), retroactively subtitled '' Episode IV: A New Hope'' (1977), was followed by the sequels '' Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) and '' Episode VI: Return of the Jedi'' (1983), forming the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy. Lucas later returned to the series to direct a prequel trilogy, consisting of '' Episode I: The Phantom Menace'' (1999), '' Episode II: Attack of the Clones'' (2002), and '' Episode III: Revenge of the Sith'' (2005). In 2012, Luca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Yavin
Yavin (also known as "Yavin Prime", to distinguish it from its moons) is a fictional planet in the ''Star Wars'' galaxy. It first appeared in the 1977 film ''Star Wars'' and is depicted as a large red gas giant with an extensive satellite system of moons. The hidden military base of the Rebel Alliance is located on its fourth moon, Yavin 4. The climactic space battle at the end of the film, in which the Rebel Alliance destroys the Death Star, takes place in orbit around the planet Yavin. In ''Star Wars'' fandom and the Expanded Universe, this event is especially significant as it is one method used to mark an epoch in the fictional ''Star Wars'' universe. Events in the ''Star Wars Legends'' continuity are typically dated in terms of years BBY ("Before the Battle of Yavin") or ABY ("After the Battle of Yavin"). Depiction In early drafts of the ''Star Wars'' story, author George Lucas began inventing names of characters and planets and assigning roles and characteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Series Premiere
A series premiere is the first aired installment of an episodic entertainment series, most often a television series. In the United States, many series premieres are aired in the fall time or, for mid-season replacements, either in the spring or late winter. As distinguished from a pilot A television series' first episode often originates as a pilot, a standalone episode that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its creation, the pilot is meant to be the testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. As such, "Pilot" is overwhelmingly the most common title used for a series premiere. Sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. For the Canadian supernatural drama ''Lost Girl'', the pilot that sold the series to Showcase, " Vexed", was used as the eighth episode of the first series. In the case of ''Firefly'', the original pilot ("Serenity") was intended to serve as the series premiere but was rejecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reckoning (Andor)
"Reckoning" is the third episode of the American streaming television series ''Andor'', based on ''Star Wars'' created by George Lucas. It was written by Tony Gilroy and directed by Toby Haynes. The episode stars Diego Luna as Cassian Andor, who reprises his role from the ''Star Wars'' spinoff film, ''Rogue One'' (2016). Haynes was hired in September 2020 after a production delay due the COVID-19 pandemic, and Gilroy joined the series as showrunner in early 2019, replacing Stephen Schiff. Both executive produce alongside Luna and Kathleen Kennedy. "Reckoning" was released on Disney+ on September 21, 2022, along with " Kassa" and " That Would Be Me", as a three-part series premiere. Plot In a series of flashbacks, young Kassa climbs into the wrecked mining ship and explores its technology. Maarva and her husband Clem arrive to salvage the ship for parts, and encounter Kassa, who is destroying equipment inside the ship in anger. Maarva decides to knock him unconscious and take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney+
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who is the company's mascot, and the start of animated films. After becoming a major success by the early 1940s, the company started to diversify into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. Following Walt's death in 1966, the company's profits began to decline, especially in the animation division. Once Disney's shareholders voted in Michael Eisner as the head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Kennedy (producer)
Kathleen Kennedy (born June 5, 1953) is an American film producer and president of Lucasfilm. In 1981, she co-founded the production company Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and her husband Frank Marshall (filmmaker), Frank Marshall. Her first film as a producer was ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982). A decade later, again with Spielberg, she produced the Jurassic Park, ''Jurassic Park'' franchise, the first two of which became two of the top ten 1990s in film#Highest-grossing films, highest-grossing films of the 1990s. In 1992, she The Kennedy/Marshall Company with her husband, Frank Marshall. On October 30, 2012, she became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company for $4.2 billion. She received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018. Kennedy has participated in the making of over 60 films that have earned over $11 billion worldwide, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Schiff
{{Infobox person , name = Stephen Schiff , image = , image_size = , alt = , caption = , birth_name = , birth_date = , birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, United States , education = , alma_mater = , occupation = Writer , years_active = , awards = Golden Globe, Pulitzer Prize finalist, two Writers Guild of America Awards and two additional nominations, Writers Guild of America Richard B. Jablow Award, Peabody Award, two Emmy Award nominations, Critics Choice Award, American Film Institute Award, Television Critics Association Award, Producers Guild Award Stephen Schiff is an American screenwriter, producer, and journalist. He is best known for his work at ''The New Yorker'' and '' Vanity Fair'', his screenplays for ''Lolita'', ''True Crime'', and '' Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'', and his work as a writer and producer on the FX te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showrunner
A showrunner (or colloquially a helmer) is the top-level executive producer of a television series production who has creative and management authority through combining the responsibilities of employer and, in comedy or dramas, typically also the head writer, script and story editor. They consult with network and studio bosses and lead the artistic vision of the show, including the writers room, editing department, as well as select the set design, staff, cast members, and each actor's wardrobe and hairstyle. In many instances, the showrunner also created the show, and subsequent seasons could feature different showrunners. While the director has creative control over a film's production, and the executive producer's role is limited to investing, in television shows, the showrunner outranks the episodic directors. History In a January 1990 submission to the United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Adminis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused COVID-19 pandemic cases, more than cases and COVID-19 pandemic deaths, confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history, deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from Asymptomatic, undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, Nocturnal cough, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogue One
''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' (or simply ''Rogue One'') is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards. The screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy is from a story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta. It was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first installment of the ''Star Wars'' anthology series and an immediate prequel to '' Star Wars (1977)''. The main cast consists of Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen, and Forest Whitaker. Set a week before ''Star Wars'', the plot follows a group of rebels who band together to steal plans of the Death Star, the ultimate weapon of the Galactic Empire. It details the Rebel Alliance's first effective victory against the Empire, first referenced in ''Star Wars'' opening crawl. Based on an idea first pitched by Knoll ten years before it entered development, the film was made to be different in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off (or spinoff) is a radio program, television program, film, video game or any narrative work, derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events). One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from the old time radio comedy show '' Fibber McGee and Molly'' became the star of his own program '' The Great Gildersleeve'' (1941–1957). In genre fiction, the term parallels its usage in television; it is usually meant to indicate a substantial ''change in narrative viewpoint and activity'' from that (previous) storyline based on the activities of the series' principal protagonist and so is a shift to that action and overall narrative thread of some other protagonist, which now becomes the central or main thread (storyline) of the new sub-series. The ''new pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
