A battle between light and dark is fought in the first footage from ‘The Acolyte’.
At Star Wars Celebration Europe today, fans were treated to an exclusive first trailer for the upcoming series, The Acolyte, which will take the franchise well into the past as the stories grow further from the Skywalker Saga.
The trailer opened with Lee Jung-Jae as a Jedi Master teaching a class of younglings at the Jedi Temple. The trailer also featured the first look at series star Amandla Stenberg as a masked warrior, entering into a scuffle with Carrie Ann Moss' Jedi knight. While the High Republic is an era largely of peace, its clear a conflict is brewing as Jedi throughout the galaxy prepare to face mysterious threats from all around.
The desire to push out the Star Wars franchise beyond its origins on Tattooine to an expansive galaxy, particularly during an unexplored visual time in the saga, was touched upon when Collider's Maggie Lovitt spoke with Kathleen Kennedy, the current president of Lucasfilm, about the potential of The Acolyte series. Kennedy said:
Who Else Is in the Cast of The Acolyte? Stenberg was first attached to lead back in December 2021, but their casting was only an internet rumor until Stenberg was at SDCC last year when she was promoting A24's horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies. As time progressed, a suddenly linked with the project, with Jodie Turner-Smith in talks to board the project, alongside Squid Game's Emmy-winner Lee joining in a lead role, Manny Jacinto, and Russian Doll's Charlie Barnett.
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