{"id":670865,"date":"2026-07-03T02:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670865\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:12:11","slug":"new-star-wars-book-reveals-details-of-scrapped-k-2so-horror-episode-of-andor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670865\/","title":{"rendered":"New Star Wars Book Reveals Details of Scrapped K-2SO Horror Episode of ‘Andor’"},"content":{"rendered":"

By George & Josh Bate<\/p>\n

\"StarK-2SO (voiced by Alan Tudyk) in Lucasfilm\u2019s ANDOR Season 2, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Lucasfilm. \u00a92025 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

Abrams Books\u2019 The Art of Star Wars: Andor<\/a> is the \u201cdefinitive behind-the-scenes exploration of the making of Andor,\u201d according to Emmy award-winning writer Dan Gilroy. As such, the book is filled to the brim with insights, beautiful concept art, and the deepest dive imaginable into every facet of the acclaimed Disney+<\/a> series.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly<\/a> last year, series creator Tony Gilroy revealed that Andor Season 2<\/a> was originally going to feature a \u201chorror movie\u201d episode in which K-2SO terrorizes a group of rebels. Over a year later, The Art of Star Wars: Andor reveals more about what this episode of Andor may have looked like.<\/p>\n

New Details about the Alien and Predator-Inspired K-2SO Horror Episode Emerge<\/p>\n

Dan Gilroy, who penned the Aldhani and Ghorman massacre arcs of Andor, envisioned the ninth episode of Season 2 as a \u201cself-contained horror story, in which a KX unit gets trapped inside a Yavin-bound tanker and begins hunting down its rebel occupants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"StarCassian Andor (Diego Luna) in Lucasfilm\u2019s ANDOR Season 2, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Lucasfilm. \u00a92025 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

Production designer Luke Hull elaborated on the idea for the episode and cited Alien and Predator as inspirations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were going to have almost an Alien-esque\/Predator combo in space on a ship, which would have been really cool, but it was a whole other, massive expense.\u201d<\/p>\n

So why didn\u2019t the horror movie K-2SO episode of Andor come to fruition? \u201cIt always stood very large and looming outside the budget,\u201d explained Hull. \u201cAnd it felt like a diversion from our storyline. Suddenly, we just left Ghorman on some random mission on a ship. They get boarded, and K-2 tears through the ship. It\u2019s a cool episode, but wouldn\u2019t it be better to sort of weave it into the lot, which Tony did! And which I think is much stronger, personally.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it seems unlikely that the K-2SO horror episode will be reworked into another Star Wars story, the possibility of a Star Wars project existing in the horror genre continues to warrant discussion. In an interview with Business Insider<\/a>, Tony Gilroy mentioned that Disney and Lucasfilm are currently developing a Star Wars horror project. \u201cThey\u2019re doing that,\u201d Gilroy said. \u201cI think they\u2019re doing that. I think that\u2019s in the works, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Star Wars and the Horror Genre Have Crossed Paths Before<\/p>\n

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The K-2SO horror episode would not have been the first time that Star Wars dabbled in the horror genre. In 2020, Disney-Lucasfilm Press published Dark Legends, a collection of short stories written by George Mann with illustrations by Grant Griffin. The stories include shadowy figures snatching children in the night, a haunted mask, a powerful Sith, a wolfman gone mad, twisted spirits, and more.<\/p>\n

The Vader\u2019s Castle Saga, meanwhile, asks the question: What if your starship broke down on a lava planet and the only safe haven was a castle that once belonged to Darth Vader?<\/p>\n

In Legends, author Joe Schreiber penned Death Troopers and Red Harvest, two horror novels centered around a virus that turns people into monsters. Death Troopers follows a crew and inmates of a drifting prison barge that have to fight for their lives against undead Storm Troopers aboard a Star Destroyer, while Red Harvest was a prequel that showed the development of the virus, set at a Sith academy in Old Republic times.<\/p>\n

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