Ok-2SO’s Andor Origin Story Was Virtually a Standalone Horror Episode

The top of this week’s episode arc on Andor lastly welcomed Ok-2SO into the fold. In an enemies to besties second on the streets of Palmo, Cassian (Diego Luna) is saved from the KX droid when it will get run over and he takes the items again to Yavin with him.

After discovering out Bix is nowhere to be discovered, he and Draven collect to witness the re-programming of the KX droid on a metallic mattress that offers Frankenstein vibes. Ok-2SO awakens and asks why a gun is pointed at him in actor Alan Tudyk’s recognizable character voice.

Initially, nevertheless, his introduction was much more unsettling. “Dan Gilroy wrote a tremendous, fully self-contained episode that was episode 209,” Tony Gilroy advised Entertainment Weekly, “It was a tremendous episode that was like a horror film.”

“They needed to deliver this big ugly tanker ship to Yavin, and there was a KX unit that was trapped inside there looking. It was kind of like a monster film with K2 on it. It was actually cool.”

However finally it wasn’t meant to be. “We couldn’t afford to do it,” he stated.

It was nice that there have been nonetheless some strokes of horror within the episode as he’s jolted again to life in a mad-scientist, old-school spooky approach, but it surely additionally would have been attention-grabbing to see the prolonged model. Nevertheless, “it was made clear that it was out of the vary, so we needed to abandon that and consolidate issues,” Gilroy stated.

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