The Acolyte is the latest in a long list of Star Wars series coming to Disney Plus, but it's a big promise different from The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. Set 100 years before the events of The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte is made by Russian Doll acclaim Leslye Headland.
“The Acolyte is a mystery. It's similar to Russian Dollwhich was about giving the audience episode-by-episode information in this narrative spiral,” Headland explains to Total Film.
“[The Acolyte] proposes a much larger setting, but similarly addresses the concept 'your eyes can deceive you'. You'll think the show is one thing, but then it'll shift gears into something else, and then it'll do it again.”
The mystery in question focuses on a series of crimes investigated by Jedi Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) and Mae (Amandla Stenberg). But the investigation puts them on a collision course with more sinister forces.
The Acolyte is still Star Wars
Headland promises The Accolyte will be “full” of nods to every era of Star Wars.
“It's a series full of everything I wanted to explore: I wanted there to be EU things [Universo Espanso], references to the original trilogy, to the Phantom Menace, to the Disney sequels… it's absolutely rich. Because you never know, there might not be another opportunity.”
Headland adds: “[Il direttore della fotografia] Chris [Teague] and I talked a lot about honoring the camera movements by George Lucas. I would say that the original trilogy became our reference point for world building, while Episode I was used as a reference more thematically.”
The first two episodes of The Acolyte were released on Disney Plus on June 4thwith new episodes weekly.
To create the series, the director also relied on a screenwriter who has never seen Star Wars: “I think there's a dog,” she says.
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