The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland says the sequence would be the first for the franchise — a Star Wars story with no struggle in it.
For probably the most half, the Star Stars TV reveals on Disney+ have largely caught to the time intervals explored within the motion pictures, however Star Wars: The Acolyte will happen a whole lot of years earlier than the occasions of The Phantom Menace. The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland informed Leisure Weekly that the sequence takes place throughout a interval of peace within the galaxy, which is a primary for a franchise with struggle proper within the title.
“The Acolyte stands out as a result of it’s the earliest within the Star Wars timeline that we now have ever been in live-action,” Leslye Headland mentioned. “We’re towards the top of the Excessive Republic, main into George’s prequels, so we’re a time interval the place the Jedi are on the top of their energy… We’re a time interval the place there may be peace all through the galaxy. It was very difficult and fascinating to make a Star Wars with no struggle in it. So the query turned, Properly, what ought to the present be about if it’s not going to be about galactic conflict?“
The sequence will even flip the script because it received’t all the time be informed from the attitude of the Jedi. “I feel that what makes this present completely different and fascinating is that it’s from the attitude of the villains of Star Wars,” Lesyle Headland defined. “These are people who find themselves utilizing the Drive in their very own manner, dipping into the darker sides of the Drive and are doing it with out being sanctioned by the bigger establishment, which, on this case, is the Jedi.” Headland added that the sequence will function “extra Jedi than you’ve seen in any of the Star Wars content material,” but in addition extra “morally ambiguous characters” as nicely.
Simply because the galaxy might not be at struggle throughout The Acolyte doesn’t imply that it’ll skimp on the motion. “I can say this gorgeous confidently,” Headland mentioned. “I don’t suppose you’re going to see motion in different reveals the way in which that you just see it utilized in our present.” The sequence will contain quite a lot of elaborate martial arts-themed choreographed fights, and it’s anticipated that Squid Recreation star Lee Jung-jae can be collaborating in them. “I didn’t know that I’d be taking part in a Jedi grasp,” Jung-jae mentioned. “And it is a large alternative, which I’m nonetheless extraordinarily grateful for. And to be taking part in in a movie that I actually loved watching continues to be surreal for me. I can’t imagine I’m taking part in a Jedi grasp and I get to make use of a lightsaber!“
“The Acolyte is a mystery-thriller that may take viewers right into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and techniques and rising dark-side powers within the closing days of the Excessive Republic period,” reads the official synopsis. “A former Padawan reunites together with her Jedi Grasp to research a sequence of crimes, however the forces they confront are extra sinister than they ever anticipated.“
Star Wars: The Acolyte doesn’t have an official launch date but however is anticipated to debut on Disney+ in 2024.