STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE Expected To Run For Multiple Seasons; Episode Count Possibly Revealed

STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE Expected To Run For Multiple Seasons; Episode Count Possibly Revealed

There's a lot of excitement for Star Wars: The Acolyte, and a new report suggests the Disney+ series will run for multiple seasons, with the High Republic era-set show's episode count also likely revealed.

By JoshWilding - Mar 20, 2023 03:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: StarWarsNews.net (via SFFGazette.com)

Cameras are still rolling on Star Wars: The Acolyte, the upcoming Disney+ series that will explore The High Republic era in live-action for the first time.

Set roughly 100 years before the events of The Phantom Menace, there's a lot of intrigue surrounding the series, and a listing on intimacy coordinator Adelaide Waldrop online CV may have revealed how many episodes we're getting. As noted by StarWarsNews.net (via SFFGazette.com), it sounds like we should gear up for a total of 8 episodes when the show launches in 2024.

That lines up with The Mandalorian and that's obviously a couple of instalments more than Obi-Wan Kenobi (but four less than Andor). They're currently listed as 60-minute episodes, but we're not putting too much stock into that for the time being. 

In related news, there are rumblings online - courtesy of a lawsuit producer Karyn McCarthy filed against Lucasfilm after being ousted from The Acolyte - that the series will run for multiple seasons. 

Unfortunately, we don't know how many it could eventually consist of, but this suggests there are ambitious plans in place for the prequel to the prequels. In recent years, Disney has invested a lot into The High Republic era in publishing, and this series will mark the first time we get to explore that in live-action.

With Star Wars Celebration just weeks away, we anticipate learning more about the show then, though only Ahsoka has a dedicated panel at the events as of right now. 

Star Wars: The Acolyte has been 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. 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."

The cast of the series includes Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, Carrie-Ann Moss, Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Jodie Turner-Smith, Rebecca Henderson, Charlie Barnett, and Dean-Charles Chapman.

The Acolyte will stream exclusively on Disney+, though a premiere date has yet to be revealed.

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TheShellyMan
TheShellyMan - 3/20/2023, 3:04 PM
OT: Marvel Studios President Victoria Alonso is OUT!
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 3/20/2023, 3:05 PM
@TheShellyMan -


She oversaw the VFX department🤡....




Good riddance 👮
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 3/20/2023, 3:28 PM
@TheShellyMan - she wasn't the president
GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/20/2023, 4:11 PM
@Urubrodi - she actually was president. A President. Of all physical and post production and animation since 2021
Matchesz
Matchesz - 3/20/2023, 5:59 PM
@GhostDog - She wasn't the emperor
EarlChai
EarlChai - 3/20/2023, 3:06 PM
"a listing on intimacy coordinator Adelaide Waldrop['s] online CV"

Star Wars sex scenes confirmed! 🤦‍♀️ So much for "it's just a kids' space wizard movie."
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 3/20/2023, 3:10 PM
@EarlChai - nothing hard-core,just a Han job
EarlChai
EarlChai - 3/20/2023, 3:12 PM
@ProfessorWhy - OK, you just made an aro-ace chuckle at a sex pun. Congrats!
EZBeast
EZBeast - 3/20/2023, 3:21 PM
@ProfessorWhy -
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 3/20/2023, 3:53 PM
@EarlChai - Worked for Eternals, the most streamed Marvel Film on D+ last year. Star Wars does need an image makeover.
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 3/20/2023, 4:45 PM
@EarlChai - if they did go hard-core, it would be a blow jabba
mountainman
mountainman - 3/20/2023, 3:08 PM
I’m really afraid that the Star Wars brand is getting diluted. It used to feel special and just doesn’t any more. The most recent episode of the Mandelorian got me thinking about this. Even this show, that a few years ago felt like it may save Star Wars, is really losing steam. So far this season has shown us:

- There was zero reason to bring back Grogu besides merchandising. He’s felt pointless and the time he spent training with Luke did too.
- Mando seems incredibly ineffective a lot. He really hasn’t done much of value this season, is aimless, and needs to get saved all the time.
- Stories about unknown or smaller characters only work when the writing and acting are up to par. Andor was amazing while Mando S3e3 was very lackluster.
- A lot of these things don’t mean anything when we know that they end up with Episode 9. Now that Mando is connecting more to the sequels, it’s worse for it. This show will obviously be more disconnected from the current so it won’t be affected by this as much.

It’s possible that The Acolyte will be the breath of fresh air that Star Wars truly needs. Or maybe it’s just over saturated. Maybe I (and many others) are just over it. Maybe endless franchises aren’t a good idea. Who knows?
McMurdo
McMurdo - 3/20/2023, 3:20 PM
@mountainman - I disagree. I hated the decision to bring back grogu. But Favreau has written his two years of training to actually contribute to the story. He flips around like [frick]ing Yoda now, fly ships whilst using star charts. He force throws shit with ease now. He saved Mando by going to get Bo Katan.


Trust me I thought this would be a disaster. But characterization has literally been the crux of every episode from s3 so far. I'm honestly impressed.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/20/2023, 3:45 PM
@McMurdo - Valid points about Grogu. I won’t dispute that.

I also like some of the Bo Katan stuff. I just find Mando to be weak this season and the episode 3 detour didn’t wow me at all.
marvel72
marvel72 - 3/20/2023, 3:54 PM
@mountainman - I agree, I remember seeing that episode 1 trailer for the first time.

I know it turned out being shit but how I got excited for a new Star Wars movie.

Now there is something Star Wars every few months.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 3/20/2023, 4:04 PM
@mountainman - Agree, Mando sux. Made such a big fuss in Ep 1 that IG 11 is the only robot he will trust to take care of Grogu so we thought that was going to be the journey in the 1st couple episodes, then in episode 2 Peli Motto (the female mechanic) convinced him so easily to drop the quest and settle for R4D5 lol.

Mandolorian's character arcs are ending up like the CW arrowverse. A series just made to keep going in circles because there is no goal or point of the show except to retain D+ subscribers. That's why the viewership is tanking. We've only had 3 episodes so far and they've already lost 50% of its viewers.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/20/2023, 4:18 PM
@mastakilla39 - After episode 3, I’m really considering dropping it. I’m probably in for this whole season at this point, but if the quality doesn’t improve, I’m done.
JackBurton1
JackBurton1 - 3/20/2023, 4:46 PM
@mountainman - I agree with your point about Star Wars but HIGHLY disagree about Mando...that show is crazy popular and great!It's a good year for Star Wars with Mando and Ahsoka.

However every little "event" doesn't need a show to explain things...and there is way more bad Disney Star Wars than good...WAY MORE!
JackBurton1
JackBurton1 - 3/20/2023, 4:49 PM
@mastakilla39 - There is a lot of reasons Disney Plus viewership is down overall right now.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 3/20/2023, 6:54 PM
@mountainman - They really need to get off this kick of placing episodes in the middle of a series about different characters.

Boba Fett had 2 full episodes about Mando. Boba wasn't even in them at all.

Now we just got an episode in Mando about Dr Pershing and Mando was only in the very beginning and end.

They need to stop it. The show is called Boba Fett for a reason. It's called Mandalorian for a reason. Stop wasting episodes in an already short season on other characters.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/20/2023, 7:36 PM
@CorndogBurglar - Yeah. Multiple POVs in a show are ok if done well. I enjoy a good cold open featuring characters we don’t normally follow in a show. But it was just oddly placed here.

Maybe the female character (don’t remember her name or number) will appear back with Moff Gideon down the road. But did we really gain much from that 35 minutes that couldn’t be solved with some simple dialog like “We’ve infiltrated the New Republic and I’ve killed Pershing so they don’t get the cloning technology.”?
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/20/2023, 3:21 PM
If they go with more seasons, they better not spread it's story out over multiple seasons. Miss the days that not every show ended on a cliffhanger.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 3/20/2023, 4:12 PM
@bkmeijer1 - I prefer the netflix or HBO Max approach. 2 seasons if your lucky and 3 - 6 seasons at most when it peaks. Tired of those shows that go on forever until they run the goodwill of the franchise into the ground like Walking Dead, Lost, Heroes, etc.

Rather know I only have to commit to a certain amount of seasons rather than an indefinite amount like Mandalorian whose already struggling to retain viewers this season.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/20/2023, 6:47 PM
@mastakilla39 - I'm a fan of 2 to 4 seasons. Although a mini-series every now and then is nice to.

Just when a second (or just the next) season isn't a given, I think a show should wrap up by the end of the season. No cliffhangers.

Think Obi-Wan Kenobi did it well. Can just leave it for what it is, or continue if wanted.
Blergh
Blergh - 3/20/2023, 3:28 PM
1. before planning multiple seasons have the network pick you up for the needed ammount and promise back-to-back shooting. That way the series is finished faster, money saved and creative juices not interrupted by retroactive changes following fan reactions.
The perfect set is 4x6 for me (4 seasons with 6 episodes). Netflix has tried that before and it worked.

2. be creative and not retroactive about statistics. Let creatives do their thing, don't corpo this.
Fogs
Fogs - 3/20/2023, 5:01 PM
100 years prior... Then we can expect

Younger Yoda
Origins of Anakin's mom
Bail Organa parents
Palpatine

and more "HEY I KNOW THAT!" moments.

The should just have another SW five thousand years in the future or something.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 3/20/2023, 6:06 PM
Obi Wan should have had more of a budget.. It should have been THEE project to cash out on, if it was a movie it would have been a flop.
ThorArms
ThorArms - 3/20/2023, 6:42 PM
Can't wait for this one!!!
Batmangina
Batmangina - 3/20/2023, 6:42 PM
Sweet. Another Star Wars property IDGAF about - little kid me in 1980 seeing ESB could not even fathom how watered down and shit stained this franchise has become.

It would have been better (and more on brand) if Vader just [frick]ing killed everyone and turned out the lights.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 3/20/2023, 7:29 PM
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is another Star Wars property that is going to fail miserably.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 3/21/2023, 3:02 AM


Not sure about this.

But when I'm hammered, I'll try almost anything.

Shut up gusto! Don't ask, don't tell.

Imprtracr1
Imprtracr1 - 3/21/2023, 10:01 AM
This show is DOA.

There will be no second season.
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