Jodie Turner-Smith To Join Lucasfilm's STAR WARS Series THE ACOLYTE
Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim, Anne Boleyn) is going to join Lucasfilm’s upcoming Star Wars series, The Acolyte. She will join Amandla Stenberg, who is taking on the lead role. Details regarding the characters, including the one played by Turner-Smith, are being kept under wraps.
The series is described as “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.” The High Republic is set 200 years before the Skywalker Saga begins. This era has only been explored in a series of books and comics so far. It is the golden age of the Jedi, when the Jedi were at their strongest and the Sith were believed to have been eradicated from the galaxy.
It was also previously explained that the show “specifically explores the rise of the Dark Side in those final days of the High Republic era. The Acolyte has the opportunity to explore the Dark Side in a way the franchise never has on screen before.”
An acolyte in the Star Wars universe refers to “a Sith who has just begun their training under an experienced Sith Lord.” The series is also said to explore some major Sith characters from Star Wars Legends.
The show is being developed by showrunner Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), and she previously revealed that the series was heavily inspired by Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and also said: “We’re taking a look at the political and personal and spiritual things that came up in a time period that we don’t know much about. My question when watching ‘The Phantom Menace’ was always like, ‘Well, how did things get to this point?’ How did we get to a point where a Sith lord can infiltrate the Senate and none of the Jedi pick up on it? Like, what went wrong? What are the scenarios that led us to this moment?”
I really hope that this series ends up being good!
Source: Deadline