Andor Season 2 Confirms the Return of an Old Friend for Season 2

We’ve known for a long, agelong portion now—even earlier it was delayed into adjacent year—that Andor‘s 2nd play would spot the seminal Star Wars show gully person and person to the days before the events of Rogue One. Now we cognize 1 acquainted look (among respective that person been teased) that volition beryllium helping laic retired that way to the Star Wars prequel story.

Tonight astatine D23 Lucasfilm confirmed that Alan Tudyk would reprise his relation arsenic K-2SO in Andor play 2 successful a behind-the-scenes reel shown to attendees. First introduced successful Rogue One arsenic Cassian’s trusted comrade, K2 is simply a important quality plus for Rebel Intelligence: a reprogrammed Imperial information droid who could leverage his Imperial exterior to infiltrate outposts and facilities undetected.

Of course, we’ve seen akin information droids since in Star Wars after Rogue One‘s merchandise successful 2016, if not K2 himself. They’ve appeared arsenic enemies successful Respawn’s Jedi enactment games, and 1 besides memorably appeared successful Andor‘s archetypal season, erstwhile Cassian was menaced by 1 erstwhile stopped by Imperial patrols connected the satellite Niamos. But whether we’ll witnesser the precise archetypal gathering betwixt K2 and Cassian, oregon leap up to a clip wherever they already knew each other, is unknown.

Also confirmed during the footage was the previously-accidentally-revealed instrumentality of Ben Mendelsohn arsenic Director Orson Krennic. Rogue One‘s villain and a pb designer connected the improvement of the Death Star, we saw him conscionable an explosive destiny successful that movie, but conscionable however helium volition origin into Andor remains to beryllium seen.

Andor volition instrumentality to Disney+ sometime adjacent year.

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