Disney+’s subsequent Star Wars sequence, “The Acolyte,” is formally in manufacturing. The information was introduced on Nov. 7 by way of Twitter, and included some very thrilling additions to the solid, comparable to Manny Jacinto and Jodie Turner-Smith. They be a part of beforehand introduced leads Amandla Stenberg and “Squid Sport” star Lee Jung-Jae.
On July 22, Stenberg introduced the casting information on their Instagram, sharing images of themself with R2-D2 and Darth Vader whereas sporting a Darth Maul shirt. “Subsequent cease: a galaxy far, far-off . . . I’m so excited to lastly announce I am becoming a member of Star Wars: #TheAcolyte !” Stenberg wrote within the caption. “Honored is an understatement. Might the Power be with you 🖤.”
“The Acolyte” is one in every of eight introduced Star Wars sequence coming to Disney+, together with “Ahsoka” and “Andor,” which premiered this September. The inventive workforce is led by “Russian Doll” creator Leslye Headland. Again in 2020 when it was introduced, Disney described the venture as “a mystery-thriller that can take the viewers right into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and techniques and rising darkish facet powers within the closing days of the Excessive Republic period.”
Headland informed Selection in Might that the present was largely written and that they have been presently casting the sequence. The present takes place a century earlier than the occasions of “The Phantom Menace.”
“Lots of these characters have not even been born but. We’re looking on the political and private and religious issues that got here up in a time interval that we do not know a lot about,” Headland informed Selection on the time. “My query when watching ‘The Phantom Menace’ was at all times like, ‘Properly, how did issues get so far?’ How did we get to some extent the place a Sith lord can infiltrate the Senate and not one of the Jedi decide up on it? Like, what went mistaken? What are the situations that led us to this second?”
Stenberg’s Darth Maul shirt appears to be a touch that they will play a personality on the darkish facet, if not one of many Sith, nevertheless it’s unclear what character Jung-Jae shall be portraying. As we look ahead to extra particulars, learn on for every thing we all know to date about “The Acolyte.”
