Star Wars: The Acolyte - What We Know So Far

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With Disney+ knocking it out of the park regarding their Star Wars series, fans have been clamoring for more information regarding their upcoming series, Star Wars: The Acolyte. While very little is still known about this project, there have been some inklings as to what fans might see in the ambitious-sounding series.

After acquiring Lucasfilm in 20212, fans eagerly awaited what the studio was going to do with the Star Wars franchise. Announcing that Kathleen Kennedy, a longtime collaborator of both Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas, was getting bumped up to the president’s chair, all eyes were on where she’d take the property next.

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Unlike the recent sequel trilogy, spin-off movies, or even the other beloved Disney+ Star Wars series such as The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan, or Ahsoka, Star Wars: The Acolyte finds itself in a unique position: It isn’t married to the “Skywalker Saga” as the main series of franchise films has been renamed, nor is it even set during the same time period as the rest of the franchise which dates itself as BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin, as in everything set before A New Hope) and ABY (After the Battle of Yavin, or everything after the first Death Star was destroyed). It’s BBY, technically, but hundreds of years BBY.

This opens the franchise up to broadening its own horizons, redefining what Star Wars has been in general. Being set so far in the past, in the era of the High Republic, means all new lore, new room for new characters, and the possibilities of a visual aesthetic that won’t be beholden to the franchise’s distinctive 1970s-era science fiction look. It also busts the franchise’s storytelling potential wide open.

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