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Upcoming Star Wars series, The Acolyte, Main Cast is Announced

By Colin Gaughan

(L-R): Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae and Director Leslye Headland on the set of Lucasfilm's THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
(L-R): Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae and Director Leslye Headland on the set of Lucasfilm's THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. /
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Announced today, Disney+ and Lucasfilm revealed who will make up the main cast for their upcoming Star Wars mystery-thriller series, The Acolyte.

Amandla Stenberg, from The Hunger Games, The Hate U Give, and Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, was already announced as a lead role along with Lee Jung-jae from Netflix’s Squid Game. Today, the rest of the main cast was announced to help clear up the picture of who fans can expect to see in The Acolyte.

The Acolyte Cast Announcement

Rounding out the cast will be Manny Jacinto from The Good Place and Nine Perfect Strangers, Dafne Keen from Logan and His Dark Materials, and Jodie Turner-Smith from The Last Ship and Queen & Slim.

Dafne Keen in His Dark Materials season 2. Photograph by Simon Ridgway/HBO
Dafne Keen in His Dark Materials season 2. Photograph by Simon Ridgway/HBO /

Also announced were Rebecca Henderson from Russian Doll and Inventing Anna, Charlie Barnett from You and Russian Doll, Dean-Charles Chapman from Game of Thrones and1917, along with Carrie-Anne Moss from The Matrix and Jessica Jones.

The characters and names of The Acolyte have yet to be revealed.

The Acolyte plot and story

According to Lucasfilm and Disney, The Acolyte will be as follows:

"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. A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated."

For those who do not know, the High Republic era of Star Wars history is before the prequel films and when the Jedi Order was at its highest and strongest. This era goes on for centuries before Count Dooku infiltrated the Jedi and Chancellor Palpatine persuaded a young Anakin Skywalker to the dark side of the force.

The showrunner for The Acolyte is Leslye Headland, who has most famously worked on the Netflix series Russian Doll. Considering the Netflix time loop show is riddled with mystery elements, there is sure to be an easy transition for genres for Headland.

There is no release date yet, but production and filming have begun.

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