The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland says that the upcoming live-action Star Wars collection isn’t what you suppose it’s.
The first official trailer for Star Wars: The Acolyte was lastly launched earlier as we speak, and the response appears to be pretty combined, with some loving it and others saying they gained’t be watching. Nevertheless, collection creator Leslye Headland instructed the official Star Wars web site that The Acolyte isn’t what you suppose it’s, teasing loads of mysteries to come back.
“No matter you suppose The Acolyte is, it’s not that,” Headland stated. “It’s a drop within the bucket, child. Simply cling in there and test it out.” The creator additionally teased that The Acolyte will embody various nods to the Star Wars Prolonged Universe. “There’s additionally some EU lore that I made a decision to place in as a result of I assumed it was so cool and nobody instructed me I couldn’t,” she stated. “There are a few actually large EU concepts which might be utilized each early on within the collection and later within the collection.“
Whereas talking with THR, Headland teased the thriller facet of the collection, in addition to its samurai-movie influences. “One factor to know concerning the present is that we’ve been speaking about it as a mystery-thriller. It’s a serialized story, so every episode provides you extra details about the story,” she stated. “We had been clearly influenced by samurai movies and wuxia movies, but in addition movies like Rashomon, the place you see one story and then you definitely see it executed a unique approach. So, what separates [Star Wars: The Acolyte] from a number of the different Star Wars collection is that it’s instructed in that exact approach.“
Set tons of of years earlier than the occasions of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte takes place through the Excessive Republic period of the franchise. This period has been explored in books and comics, however Headland stated, “You don’t have to know an excessive amount of to enter the story [of The Acolyte].” The collection stars Amandla Stenberg (Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies), Lee Jung-jae (Squid Recreation), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Dafne Eager (Logan), Charlie Barnett (You), Jodie Turner-Smith (Anne Boleyn), Rebecca Henderson (Russian Doll), Dean-Charles Chapman (Recreation of Thrones), Joonas Suotamon (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix Resurrections).
The Acolyte logline reads: “An investigation right into a stunning crime spree pits a revered Jedi Grasp (Lee) towards a harmful warrior from his previous (Stenberg). As extra clues emerge, they journey down a darkish path the place sinister forces reveal all just isn’t what it appears.” The Acolyte will premiere on Disney+ on June 4th
