Star Wars Series The Acolyte Casts Amandla Stenberg As Lead
Star Wars series The Acolyte will be led by Amandla Stenberg (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies). The announcement was made via the franchise's official Twitter account.
The Acolyte comes from Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland. A description reads, «The Acolyte is a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era.» Headland has also said that her series takes place a century before The Phantom Menace and will be more interested in «the political and personal and spiritual things that came up in a time period that we don't know much about.» Stenberg was rumored since December to be joining the show, and now that news is official.
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