Acolyte

Image via Lucasfilm Right now, the future of Star Wars is worryingly hazy. Lucasfilm has a bunch of Disney Plus shows in various stages of development, with Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew, The Acolyte, and Andor season two either shooting or in pre/post production, but news on Star Wars‘ rightful home on the silver screen is hard to come by. We recently learned that Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron is now not moving forward, along with Kevin Feige’s project (which apparently never left the planning stages). That leaves…

It seems like being a part of Star Wars these days is like joining a secret society. Scripts are stored under lock and key, cast members shuffle around in cloaks, and until production is finished — no one has any real idea what’s going on. With each new entry onto Disney Plus or otherwise, the folks tasked with making these stories are sworn to absolute secrecy, and it looks like The Acolyte is no different. This upcoming Sith-centric series follows a former Padawan and their Jedi Master as they investigate a…

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Image via Lucasfilm Obi-Wan Kenobi seems destined to go down in history as a missed opportunity. The storytelling felt repetitive, it had plotholes big enough to drive a Star Destroyer through, and overall felt quite rushed. However, it looks even worse now that we can compare it to Andor, which is fast becoming the textbook example of how to do a live-action Star Wars TV show. Today we have some insights as to why that might be from an Obi-Wan Kenobi writer, the official confirmation of The Acolyte cast, a…

Lucasfilm has outlined the main cast for its upcoming Star Wars thriller The Acolyte, and it includes names involved in iconic projects like Squid Game and The Matrix. In addition to previously announced star Amandla Stenberg, the show will also feature Lee Jung-jae, Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Jodie Turner-Smith, Rebecca Henderson, Charlie Barnett, Dean-Charles Chapman, and Carrie-Anne Moss.There’s no info on what roles they’ll actually take on, but the show itself will take place during the High Republic era of Star Wars…

Image via Lucasfilm Star Wars is firmly grounded on Disney Plus for the foreseeable future, but any fan should salivate over the cool things coming our way. There’ll be another season of Andor, the long-awaited Ahsoka with Rosario Dawson, The Mandalorian‘s third season, the 80s Spielberg-inspired Skeleton Crew, and the apparently-still-coming Lando show based around Donald Glover’s performance in Solo. But it’s not all sunshine and roses over at Lucasfilm HQ. ‘The Acolyte’ facing a delay until late 2024 The…

Image: NBC UniversalCasts for Star Wars’ various movies and films are almost always interesting, just because it’s fun to see who pops up. The cast for the next show, The Acolyte, recently added The Good Place’s Manny Jacinto and Squid Game’s Lee Jung-Jae to its strong lineup, and now the show’s got another solid addition in the form of Charlie Barnett.Barnett, best known as Alan in Netflix’s Russian Doll (and maybe also that brief stint as Deathstroke in Arrow’s final season), has reportedly in final negotiations to join…

Photo: Rich Polk (Getty Images)Breakout star of one of television’s best comedy’s of the last decade The Good Place, Manny Jacinto has recently been popping up in major properties like Top Gun: Maverick and a favorite to be primed to be snatched up by a franchise. And now according to Deadline, he’s joining the Star Wars universe in Leslye Headland’s The Acolyte.Jacinto joins. along Lee Jung-Jae (Squid Game), Amandla Sternberg (Bodies Bodies Bodies) and Jodie Turner-Smith (After Yang) in the killer cast, which is really…

Squid Game actor Lee Jung-jae has bagged the male lead role in the upcoming Star Wars spin-off series The Acolyte. The series is expected to start production in London later this year and Jung-jae's role in the film has been kept under the wraps for now. Also Read: Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae debuts as director at Cannes Film Festival, says, 'audience want more Korean content'The Lucasfilm project is the brainchild of Leslye Headland, the co-creator of the hit Netflix show Russian Doll. As per Variety, he will feature…

Lee Jung-jae got another big project under his belt! Just days after Jodie Turner-Smith signed on for a major role in Disney Plus’ Star Wars series The Acolyte, the Squid Game actor signed for male lead. Lee Jung-jae, who is up for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series at the Emmy Awards this weekend, has landed his first major studio role, the male lead in the new Star Wars series, as reported by Deadline. Further details about his role is yet to be revealed, though he joins both Turner-Smith and Amandla Stenberg…