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Disney+ on Saturday released a haunting new trailer for its next live-action Star Wars series, The Acolyte, which will premiere its first two episodes on Tuesday, June 4.
The video sets the scene for a mysterious war being waged against the Jedi as dark secrets about the past emerge. An earlier trailer released in March (watch below) first introduced us to the characters of Mae, Master Sol and Master Indara — respectively played by Amandla Stenberg (The Eddy), Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game) and Carrie-Anne Moss (Marvel’s Jessica Jones) — and offered a peek of the Wookiee Jedi named Kelnacca (Solo: A Star Wars Story‘s Joonas Suotamo).
Created by Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), The Acolyte is described as a “mystery thriller” and promises to “take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era,” according to the official logline. “A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but discovers the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.”
“If Star Wars is about the underdog versus the institution, [in The Acolyte] the Jedi are the institution,” Headland tells StarWars.com.
“What went wrong?” posits Headland. “And if the bad guys are actually the underdog, it just seemed like a cool reversal.”
In addition to those named above, the cast also includes Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna) as Mirialan Jedi Vernestra Rwoh, Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials) as the half-Theelin/half-human Jedi Jecki, Jodie Turner-Smith (The Last Ship), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll) and Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones).
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Yep, this goes on my watchlist.
Holy crap! Carrie-Anne Moss is in it. It looks promising.
Just let it be good!!!🙏🏽
So Disney couldn’t wait until Doctor Who finished airing all its new Season before they launched their new bit of Star Wars Content?
So much for caring about all its Content Equally and being a good partner for the BBC to handle a venerable TV Institution…
Because people can’t watch both?
And easily too. Doctor Who episodes are at least 45 minutes. The Acolyte is already confirmed to have about 30 minute episodes.
Looking forward to watching it.
Hopefully this is more Andor and less Obi-Wan.
i remember liking both those shows and didnt get the Obi hate. Then i thought back and can remember sooo much of Andor(especially after the first few episodes) and absolutely nothing that happened in Obi.
Wow.
Just….wow.
That’s it, that’s the comment. Wow.
(shrug)
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Not for me. I’d like to see a Jedi Order that functions for once since 1977.
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But I hope people have fun with it.
So, 1980’s Kung Fu Shaolin meets Star Wars.
Not my cup of star wars tea so I won’t watch but everyone else enjoy.
Must watch for me. 🔥
Not feeling this one. Isn’t this the same story that was already told with Palpatine? Jedi’s in control, secret evil behind the scenes plotting and creating havoc. It makes me sad that Star Wars has reached a point where it makes me feel tired instead of excited.
I’m out .This is gonna be complete garbage Disney Plse Stop
Have you already seen it? How do you know how good or bad the show will be?
Due to the fact they have already said, they don’t care about cannon and are rewriting how the force works. While that is Ok for new people watching Star Wars for the first not having seen the original films and prequels, it’s two fingers for long standing fans.
So no won’t be watching, because the more that do watch it, the more Disney will think it acceptable.
You aren’t wrong, only people down voting you are those who discovered star wars after the Disney takeover and don’t know any better.
Meh
I love that this perfectly neutral reaction currently has a perfectly neutral ratio of reactions.
Even if I wasn’t a junkie for all things Star Wars, I would be in to this based on the act that Carrie-Ann Moss and Lee Jung-Jae are in it.
I’m excited for this.
It looks great. But I have a gripe. When Qui-Gon encountered Darth Maul on Tatooine and reported it to the Jedi council in Phantom Menace; Ki-Adi-Mundi states “Impossible! The Sith have been extinct for a millennium” …… Now we very well know the Sith weren’t extinct obviously. They were plotting in the shadows to return. The point is that the Jedi believed they were extinct…… so….If as the trailer suggests the Jedi are concerned about a growing darkness that involves dark side force weilding killers. Wouldn’t they eventually expose the Sith? … My gripe is I don’t like it when canon is stepped on or retconned unnecessarily.
There will be probably some rather BS loophole, like how there’s only supposed to be a master and an apprentice, but then Dooku had Asajj Ventres, Maul had Savage Oppress, and Vader the now non-canon Starkiller. Not to mention what those Inquisitors are supposed to be.
There are Dark Side people that aren’t Sith. Sith was a race of people and then a belief system. This was true before Disney bought Star Wars when Lucas was still supervising book stories.