{"id":45316,"date":"2018-12-01T14:40:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=45316"},"modified":"2018-12-01T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:44:09","slug":"rogue-one-prequel-showrunner-stephen-schiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/01\/rogue-one-prequel-showrunner-stephen-schiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ ROGUE ONE Prequel Series Finds Showrunner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/stephen-schiff-diego-luna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/stephen-schiff-diego-luna-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucasfilm has chosen The Americans executive producer Stephen Schiff to head up their announced, untitled <strong>Star Wars: Rogue One<\/strong> prequel series that will feature Diego Luna&#8217;s character of Cassian Andor.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff is the first announced creative for the series and as a pick for showrunner, he is hard to beat. Performing similar duties on FX&#8217;s <em>The Americans<\/em>, Schiff guided that show&#8217;s ongoing storylines about two Russian spies posing as a married couple in the Reagan &#8217;80s. And since this new series is centered on Rebel spy Cassian Andor, we can probably expect a similar level of intrigue and twisty narrative he brought to <em>The Americans<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As this project is barely off the ground, there is not much more to repeat or report. The show is set to appear on Disney&#8217;s upcoming streaming service Disney+, but probably not before 2020. But between now and then we still have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/tag\/star-wars-the-mandalorian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the other Star Wars limited series<\/a> <em>The Mandalorian<\/em> to enjoy when Disney+ launches next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The series which will star Diego Luna gets its first major behind-the-camera hire.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/01\/rogue-one-prequel-showrunner-stephen-schiff\/\" title=\"Disney+ ROGUE ONE Prequel Series Finds Showrunner\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10285],"tags":[2939,260,819],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-news","7":"tag-diego-luna","8":"tag-star-wars","9":"tag-stephen-schiff"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45316"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=45316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}