The Jedi Are Getting New Uniforms In Star Wars TV Show Set Before TPM
In the upcoming Star Wars television series The Acolyte, the Jedi will be getting new uniforms. Set during the High Republic era, the new show will take place roughly 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. The show's writer and showrunner, Leslye Headland, previously revealed that she drew inspiration from the Star Wars prequels when creating The Acolyte. The new series will depict how the Jedi Order and the Star Wars galaxy, as seen at the beginning of The Phantom Menace, came to be.
The Jedi are practitioners of an ancient religion that devote their live to the study of the light side of the Force, a mystical energy that binds all living things within the Star Wars universe. As seen in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and with Obi-Wan Kenobi (Sir Alec Guinness) in the original trilogy, the Jedi generally wore monk-like, earth-toned robes, consisting of a wide-sleeved, hooded cloak, tunic, and a belt to carry equipment, such as their lightsabers. When designing the Jedi costumes, Lucas and his costume department took inspiration from Japanese samurai robes.
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Vanity Fair recently caught up with Headland, who reveals that The Acolyte Jedi characters will be wearing new uniforms unlike anything seen in Star Wars media before. According to the showrunner, the series will take place in a very different age of the Star Wars universe, and therefore depict a different type of Jedi. Headland refers to the earlier time periods as "the Renaissance, or the Age of Enlightenment." The new uniforms would match the Jedi's less-exciting lifestyles. Read what Headland has to say about the new Jedi clothing below:
The Jedi uniforms are gold and
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