Tony Gilroy, a creator of Andor, revealed that an ambitious chapter with horror dyes has been excluded for his high production cost

Andor He was about to include an episode worthy of a horror movie. Tony GilroyShowrunner of the Star Wars series, confessed it Chapter 209, written by Dan Gilroy, has been eliminated due to the budget limitations.

“It was like a monster film,” Gilroy said to Entertainment Weekly. The episode showed a unit KX Dissolved on a cistern ship in Yavinchasing his prey. The protagonist would have been K-2SOThe iconic imperial droid reprogrammed, in a story that would have mixed spatial and horror action.

Instead, The meeting between Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and K-2SO (Alan Tudyk) occurs in episode 8in the framework of the brutal Mascree di Blu. In a dramatic turning point, K-2So almost kills Cassian first Samm (Abraham Wapler) I salvo with an assault. The droid ends up being reconstructed from Cassian to Yavin.

Although Ghorman massacre had already been mentioned in the novels of Star Wars legendsThis is the first time that it is visually represented. Gilroy recognized that recreating the event was expensive, so they decided to concentrate the resources at that crucial moment.

Andor’s second season continues his weekly broadcast Disney Plus.