This article contains spoilers for "Andor".

As Anddor Season 2 Barrels to his inevitable conclusion and sets a new high water brand for "Starwalks War" in the process, it would be understandable for viewers to assume that creator Tony Gillroy and his writing team managed to draw their spouse. After all, this is a season that has moved away from the display The gorman massacre in all of its frightening brutalityAlong with a dozen sequences and concepts we've never seen before this franchise. If anything The film or series represented the idea of ​​smooth creative freedom within this beloved story of the galaxy away, far ... Would this be this, right?

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Well, now we know it's just Mostly True. Even The best and most valuable series in all "Starwells War" Had to make a few concessions on the road. In an interview with Fun weeklyGilroy opened for a special road from which he had to divert him during the writing process of this second and last season. As we have seen in the latest series of episodes, Cassian Andor of Diego Luna rises with the intertwined body of the imperial executor Droid who proved to be the K-2, the oldest stubborn and heavy (yet fans-favorite) member of Rogue One. That story of the origin of the inseparable pair felt like a clever little return story, but it could have been very different if the creative team of the show followed the original plan.

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As Gilroy explained, his brother Dan (known for the "night" in 2014), wrote another way for Casian and K2 to cross paths - and would take the series in a much more attractive terrible direction:

"Dan Gillroy wrote an incredible, completely independent episode that was episode 209. It was an incredible episode that was like a horror movie."

So what happened to forcing such a drastic change in plans? Well, that's the same question that has happened a very ambitious writer since the dawn of storytelling. The money, as it turns out, proved to be a fly in fat.

If you thought the Andor Season 2 found the worst way to throw those who are imposed on the KX series in action during the massacre in Gurman, well, think again. Ghoran's helpless civilians slaughter is one thing, but what if there was an even worse version of a lonely KX Droid that hunts our heroes across the claustrophobic boundaries of a boat? It could end up as our introduction to the country C-2Are things gone as originally predicted. Tony Gilroy threw another light on this while talking to a weekly party, describing how episode 9 might have been an independent story in K2, instead of Mont Motma (Eveniv O'Reili) an hour of power that has become:

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"It was the story of K2. They had to bring this huge ugly tanker boat to Javin, and there was a KX unit that was trapped in the hunt there. It was something like a movie of a K2 monster. It was really cool."

Unfortunately, nonsense and real restrictions in the world such as "budgets" and "practicality" ended up on the road and demanded some major changes. Gilroy continued to explain why the higher windows in Disney and Lucasfilm eventually destroyed what would be-exciting expensive episode: "We could not afford to do it. It was clear that it was out of the range, so we had to leave it and consolidate things." It included overlapping the introduction of K2 into plot gurman and changing other great moments, such as Mont Motma's exciting speech before the Senatefrom episode 10 to episode 9. In the end, the final version of the events feels every inch as widespread and epic as the series has always been. But it's fun to imagine the potential that-EFS had the studio to open pocket books even more.

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For his part, Tony Gillroy has raised this fiscal belt tightening of the dramatic change in thinking of thinking among studio directors over the past few years. The mentality of the golden rush that led to Stunning with Disney's too much too many shows+ And Lucasfilm has turned "Andor" into the most expensive project "War on Starwells" It seems to have disappeared with the moment when the 2 season was rolling around. Although it could throw less prepared loop writers, both Tony and Dan Gilroy were used to expecting the unexpected. According to Tony Gilroy, this was not too different with the hustle that was supposed to do back in season 1 with the Aldani bow, culminating in The spectacular eye of the aldani sequence:

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"It's like what we did with Aldani. Danny caught fire twice. Danny wrote the episode of Aldani Pre-Kadid where there were 2,000 people in Aldani. It was like Glastonbury, this huge festival. And then from the time we arrived there (after Kovid) they said," Well, you would have been happy. 'We were like,' Oh my God, we must change the whole story! ' Everything had to change. "

Although Gilroy quickly gave Disney and Lucasfilm a loan to continue supporting his creative goals, it is necessary to make others more convincing to see the vision-like the actor K2 voice and Alan Tudik's movement performer. Gilroy's choice to postpone K2's initial meeting and Cassian meant potential friction both Tudik and fans the wrong way, as he explained:

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"I think Alan was probably disappointed and I think there were fans who were disappointed, but I was like," man, whatever we do, we had to wait really long as we could until we met him. " But then as I told Alan at the beginning, and finally everyone came up with the idea: 'Look, we'll wait, but it's worth it, and when we get there, we'll really do something and make sense and feel right. "

There are still more praise for the event sprinkled all over the interview, so Be sure to head to EW Check it in full. The last three episodes of "Andor" will descend to Disney+ streaming Tuesday, 13.05.2025.