Alan Tudyk joins Disney+ live-action Star Wars series
By Monita Mohan
Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor is going to have some sassy droid company on Disney+. Alan Tudyk has signed on to reprise his Star Wars role as K-2SO.
Fans of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story have reason to get even more excited about the upcoming live-action series featuring Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor. Disney has announced that Alan Tudyk, who voiced and performed the motion-capture for the role of Cassian’s droid companion K-2SO in the film, will be returning to play the character in the Disney+ series. Tudyk’s Twitter response to the announcement was perfectly in-character.
K-2 was an Imperial droid who was reprogrammed by Cassian to serve the Rebel Alliance. Somehow the reprogramming gave K-2 a caustic sense of humor and poor lying skills, though the droid was loyal to a fault, as we saw in the final act of Rogue One. Considering what an intrinsic part K-2 played in Cassian’s backstory, Tudyk’s addition to the series is a welcome one. K-2 and Cassian shared a memorable relationship on-screen as a snarky duo who were the epitome of ‘can’t live with each other, but can’t live without each other’.
Tudyk can currently be heard – and occasionally seen – on DC Universe’s Doom Patrol as the villainous Mr. Nobody.
The Star Wars series is scheduled to begin filming this year with a potential release in 2021. StarWars.com also confirmed that The Americans producer Stephen Schiff will be a showrunner and executive producer on the show. Schiff seems a good fit for the series since it will be set before the Rogue One film and follows Cassian’s journey as a rebel spy. Fans can expect a suspenseful espionage thriller with plenty of banter.
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While Rogue One had plenty of humorous moments, the film never veered far from the darker elements of the Star Wars universe. Here’s hoping Disney+ is able to balance these disparate elements in the series.
Disney+ is set to launch in November of this year in the US. Worldwide release of the streaming service is expected to be completed within the next few years.