Chris McPherson

Published Jun 23, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell upwards into a senior position despite his best efforts.

For reasons unknown, he enjoys analyzing box office receipts, giant sharks, and has become known as the go-to man for all things Bosch, Mission: Impossible and Christopher Nolan in Collider’s news division. Recently, he found himself yeehawing along to the Dutton saga on the Yellowstone Ranch.

He is proficient in sarcasm, wit, Photoshop and working unfeasibly long hours. Amongst his passions sit the likes of the history of the Walt Disney Company, the construction of theme parks, steam trains and binge-watching Gilmore Girls with a coffee that is just hot enough to scald him.

His obsession with the Apple TV+ series Silo is the subject of mockery within the Senior News channel, where his feelings about Taylor Sheridan’s work are enough to make his fellow writers roll their eyes.

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The most brilliant thing about Andor was that it never relied on those nostalgic tropes from Star Wars of yesteryear to hook us. It proved that you could write a compelling story in a galaxy far, far away that wasn’t dependent on Jedi, Sith, lightsabers or whatever the heck Yoda is. It was an adult drama about one man’s journey from petty criminal to hero, and it was a grown-up saga that would have worked in any galaxy, not just this one. The Disney+ series built one of the most detailed corners of the universe first created by George Lucas, and now fans are getting a closer look at how all of it came together. The Art of Star Wars: Andor (The Complete Series) will officially arrive from Abrams on June 30, bringing to us a stunning collection of the production art, concept designs, visual development, creature work, props, graphics, costumes, and effects work behind all 24 episodes of the series.

Collider is thrilled to bring our readers an exclusive sneak peek at what to expect. The book has been written by Lucasfilm creative art manager Phil Szostak, and the 288-page hardcover includes 500 full-colour illustrations and will give us all an in-depth look at the creative process behind one of the most acclaimed television series in modern history.

The cast of Andor includes Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) as Cassian Andor, Genevieve O’Reilly (Mon Mothma), Stellan Skarsgård (Dune) as Luthen Rael, Adria Arjona (Hit Man) as Bix Caleen, Denise Gough (The Witcher) as Dedra Meero, Kyle Soller (Bodies) as Syril Karn, Faye Marsay (Andor) as Vel Sartha, and Elizabeth Dulau(The Outlaws) as Kleya Marki.

Luna has been interviewed for the book, with show creator Tony Gilroy — writer of the foreword — and **Dan Gilroy, **who has also penned an afterword, alongside the Lucasfilm artists who helped shape the series from its earliest development after Rogue One: A Star Wars Storythrough the final episodes of Season 2.

The scores below reveal how the Force sees you. Your highest number is your true alignment. Read on to understand what that means — and what it will cost you.

Disciplined, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the living Force, you have walked the path long enough to understand its demands — and accept them. You lead not through authority alone, but through example. You have felt the pull of the dark side and chosen otherwise, every time. That is not certainty. That is courage.

You are earnest, powerful, and brimming with potential — and you know it, which is both your greatest asset and your most dangerous flaw. You act before you think, trust your gut over your training, and sometimes confuse impatience for bravery. The Masters see something in you, though. The question isn’t whether you have what it takes — it’s whether you’ll be patient enough to find out.

You are not simply dangerous — you are certain, and that is worse. You have decided what the galaxy needs, and you have decided you are the one to deliver it. Your power is genuine and formidable, earned through sacrifice that would have broken lesser beings. But examine your victories carefully. Every Sith believed their cause was righteous. The dark side’s cruelest trick is that it agrees with you.

You were forged in fire and reshaped by those who found you at your lowest. You serve, because service gave you structure when you had none. Your allegiance is not to an ideology — it is to survival and to the master who gave you purpose. But there is something buried beneath the conditioning. The Jedi you hunt? You recognize them. Because you remember what it felt like before the choice was taken from you.

You have looked at the Jedi Code and the Sith Code and found both of them incomplete. You walk the line not out of indecision but out of conviction — you genuinely believe both extremes miss something essential. The Jedi don’t fully trust you. The Sith think you’re wasting your potential. They’re both partially right. But so are you.

The book will also explore those key locations that became hotspots in Cassian Andor’s journey, including Kenari, Ferrix, Aldhani, Narkina 5, Mina-Rau, Ghorman, and Yavin 4, so we’ll get closer looks at Ferrix Workwear, Imperial Security Bureau uniforms, right through to speeders, battered ships and those iconic prison cells of Narkina 5. But more importantly, the book is going to dig into why Andor felt so different from much of the wider franchise.

Why Andor worked so much, though, was that it felt like we were looking at a real world. Lived-in costumes, tense politicking with sniping at enemies, spying and espionage, and the day to day suffering under the Galactic Empire — this could have been a dystopian thriller under Orwell. The book will trace that detail across the Rebellion’s growing operations, the Empire’s inner workings, and the creative hurdles involved in bringing such a huge story to life.

The Art of Star Wars: Andor (The Complete Series) is available to pre-order now⁠ ahead of its June 30 release.

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