Disney’s latest Celebrity Wars display, The Acolyte, is only a life away on Disney Plus, and the most recent trailer for it hints that the display will rush on a story that Rian Johnson’s Celebrity Wars Episode VIII: The Extreme Jedi tugged on again in 2017: Is the Jedi sequence in reality all that excellent?
Poised neatly ahead of the occasions of the Celebrity Wars prequel trilogy, The Acolyte sees Top Republic-era Jedi grasp Sol (Lee Jung-jae) investigating a tale of murders (which come with no less than one Jedi). Nowadays’s trailer unearths that the hidden black-clad Mae (Amandla Stenberg), is a former scholar of his, and it kind of feels like she’s almost definitely a suspect within the murders. It additionally reinforces the concept this will probably be a in particular grim layout.
It additionally introduces a zipper-faced villain whose pink lightsaber sparks to while in a foggy woodland, it appears simply ahead of a struggle with Sol. It’s a thriller who’s dressed in the scarred-up helmet, which bears greater than a tiny resemblance to Kylo Ren’s in the latest Celebrity Wars trilogy. Perhaps it’s the layout’ bulky wicked, or possibly it’s only a spooky dream Sol is having. Or Most likely Disney is getting ready to let us know the “Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise” Sith legend that Emperor Palpatine regaled Anakin Skywalker with in Celebrity Wars Episode III.
Something’s evidently: Whoever this villain is, they store up the lengthy custom of the Sith (assuming that’s what they’re) making the Jedi appear to be overall dorks. The Acolyte’s stars come with Carrie-Anne Moss, Rebecca Henderson, Dean-Charles Chapman, and Joonas Suotamo, and it’ll premiere June 4th with two episodes on Disney Plus.