Launched on Disney+ on April 23, 2025, season 2 of Andor confirms the separate status of the Star Wars series. We now learn that the series could have been even better if this epic episode had not been canceled.
A special episode of Andor canceled?
In August 2022, Lucasfilm will launch the series Star Wars: Andor on the Disney+ platform. Since renamed Andor: a Star Wars story - taking the subtitle from Gareth Edwards' film Rogue One, to which it is a prequel - the series tells the early years of Cassian Andor's life, from his beginnings in the resistance following his meeting with Luthen Rael to the start of the 2016 film. While most Disney-era Star Wars productions suffer from a very poor reputation, the Andor series was immediately acclaimed by both audiences and critics, to the point of being hailed as "the best live-action Star Wars series." With Season 2, showrunner Tony Gilroy aims to chronicle the four years between the end of the first season of Andor and the beginning of Rogue One. Spanning twelve episodes, the new season also chronicles the various internal ideological struggles within the Rebel Alliance, while the Galactic Empire is committing the unspeakable on the planet Ghorman. Thematically rich, season 2 of Andor is a scathing attack on the fascisation of Western societies sinking into post-truth.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tony Gilroy had the opportunity to look back on the introduction of the droid K-2SO, finally introduced in episode 8 of season 2 of Andor. But the droid that will accompany Cassian Andor until his final mission in Rogue One—and who is one of our favorite droids—was initially supposed to have a very different introduction, with a special episode that would have taken the form of a short horror film. "[My brother] wrote an amazing, completely independent episode, which was episode 209. It was the K-2 story. They were going to bring a huge tanker back to Yavin, and a KX unit was trapped inside and started chasing them. It was like a monster movie with K-2. It was really cool."
According to Tony Gilroy, this episode would have had a bit of an Alien feel. However, the project, although very promising, was canceled for budgetary reasons. "We didn't have the means to do it. It was clearly out of our reach, so we had to give up and consolidate things.", he adds. We can also assume that the upcoming arrival on Disney+ of the sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth, directed by the excellent Noah Hawley - where Aliens will be on planet Earth - has definitely convinced the production company not to embark on this special episode. But fans can rest assured! Tony Gilroy stated a few weeks ago that a horror production set in the Star Wars universe was indeed in the pipeline at Lucasfilm.
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