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Star Wars: Andor’s Tony Gilroy on K-2SO absence and two-season plan

August 7, 2022 by EJ Moreno

From the series’ first announcement, fans of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s K-2SO have been eager to see the character’s inclusion inclusion Star Wars: Andor.

Sadly, the fan-favorite droid, voiced by Alan Tudyk, has not appeared in any marketing for the upcoming first season, and in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter head writer Tony Gilroy has explained the lack of the signature droid that helped made Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor so beloved – as well as teasing his eventual arrival.

“We’re starting him [Andor] so far away from the person who would know how to – or be motivated to – reprogram an Imperial droid… From a storytelling point of view, there are multiple reasons. I would say, ‘Wait and see.’ It’s a story we are eager to tell. It’s difficult to carry an Imperial droid around with you and not draw all kinds of attention. It’s a difficult piece of luggage. When we do it, we’ll do it in a spectacular fashion as opposed to presenting it and ignoring it, or presenting it or hiding it, or the bad versions we would have been forced to do.”

Meanwhile, speaking at Disney+’s Television Critics Association press day this week (via Deadline), Gilroy detailed the roadmap for the show’s two-season arc and how it will ultimately cover the five year period directly leading into Rogue One:

“We are covering one year in our first 12 episodes, that we’ve completed, in fact we’re finishing our final mix on [episode] 12 tomorrow. We are going to do another 12 episodes starting in November and the organizing principle for shooting is that we do blocks of three, so last year we were looking at the difficulty of doing five years, which seemed like it would take us the next 30 years.”

“The answer elegantly presented itself; we’re going to take our four blocks of three [episodes] in the second half of the show and each block is going to represent another year closer. We really get to take the formative forging of Cassian Andor in the first 12 episodes and then we get to take that organism that we’ve built up and run it through the next four years in a really exciting narrative fashion.”

SEE ALSO: The Rebellion Begins in trailer for Star Wars: Andor

The “Andor” series will explore a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor’s journey to discover the difference he can make. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue where Cassian will embark on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.

Star Wars: Andor stars Diego Luna, who is reprising his Rogue One role as Cassian Andor, Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma, Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrara, and Adria Arjona (6 Underground), Denise Gough (The Kid Who Would Be King), Kyle Soller (101 Dalmatian Street), Stellan Skarsgård (Chernobyl), Ben Miles (The Crown), Anton Lesser (Game of Thrones), and Robert Emms (His Dark Materials).

Star Wars: Andor will premiere on Disney+ on September 21st.

 

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, News, Television Tagged With: Alan Tudyk, Diego Luna, Disney, Star Wars, Star Wars: Andor, tony gilroy

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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