Amandla Stenberg will star in Disney+’s upcoming “Star Wars” collection “The Acolyte.” The actor introduced the information on their Instagram on July 22. They shared images of themself with R2-D2 and Darth Vader, and within the photos, they’re carrying a Darth Maul shirt. Stenberg wrote within the caption, “Subsequent cease: a galaxy far, distant . . . I’m so excited to lastly announce I am becoming a member of Star Wars: #TheAcolyte ! Honored is an understatement. Might the Drive be with you 🖤.”
“The Acolyte” is one in all eight introduced “Star Wars” collection coming to Disney+, together with “Ahsoka” and “Andor.” The artistic workforce is led by “Russian Doll” creator Leslye Headland. Again in 2020 when it was introduced, Disney described the mission as “a mystery-thriller that may take the viewers right into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and techniques and rising darkish aspect powers within the remaining days of the Excessive Republic period.”
Headland advised Variety in Might that the present was principally written and that they had been presently casting the collection. The present takes place a century earlier than the occasions of “The Phantom Menace.”
“Loads of these characters have not even been born but. We’re looking on the political and private and non secular issues that got here up in a time interval that we do not know a lot about,” Headland advised Selection on the time. “My query when watching ‘The Phantom Menace’ was all the time like, ‘Properly, how did issues get thus far?’ How did we get to some extent the place a Sith lord can infiltrate the Senate and not one of the Jedi choose up on it? Like, what went flawed? What are the eventualities that led us to this second?”
Stenberg’s Darth Maul shirt appears to be a touch that they will play a personality on the darkish aspect, if not one of many Sith, however we’ll have to attend for extra particulars. Learn on for all the things we all know to this point about “The Acolyte,” together with the solid and launch date.
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