The K-2SO Andor Origin story was almost a standalone episode of horror

The end of this week of the ARC episode Andor Finally, he greeted the K-2SO in folding. In enemies to Monta Palmo streetsCassian (Diego Luna) is rescued from the KX droid when he transferred and he takes the pieces back to Javin with him.

After learning that BIX has not been found anywhere, he and draven gather to witness the reprogramming of the KX Droid on a metal bed that gives Frankenstein vibrations. The K-2SO wakes up and asks why a gun is directed at him in the recognizable character voice of actor Alan Tudik.

Initially, however, its introduction was much more viable. “Dan Gilroy wrote an incredible, entirely solo episode, which was episode 209,” Tony Gilroy told Entertainment weekly, “It was an incredible episode that was like a horror movie.”

“They had to bring this huge ugly tanker ship to Javin and had a KX unit that was trapped there hunting. It was something like a K2 monster movie. It was really cool.”

But in the end it was not meant to be. “We couldn’t afford to do it,” he said.

It was great that there were still some horror blows in the episode as he returned to life on a crazy scientist, old school ghostly way, but it would also be interesting to see the extended version. However, it became clear that it was out of range, so we had to give up it and consolidate things, “Gilroy said.

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