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First footage of Star Wars: The Acolyte

Next up is The Acolyte, an upcoming TV series set during the High Republic days of the galaxy when the Sith were just beginning to rise to power, around 100 years before the prequel trilogy. The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland and stars Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae appeared to give us an update about the series, as well as to show off the very first footage. As with Andor, this footage is not yet publicly available.

The Acolyte was pitched as “Frozen meets Kill Bill,” as told from the perspective of the Sith. This makes it unique compared to other Star Wars projects, which are often told from the heroic Jedi’s point of view. In addition to Stenberg and Jung-jae, the series stars Jodie Turner-Smith, Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Rebecca Henderson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Dean-Charles Chapman, Charlie Barnett and Margarita Levieva.

The first footage shows Stenberg’s Sith character in combat with a Jedi Master played by Carrie-Anne Moss. We also see Lee Jung-jae wielding a lightsaber and a spine-tingling shot of a group of Jedi all igniting their lightsabers in unison. The Acolyte is the furthest back in the Star Wars canon that any film or show has been set thus far, and will be “about power and who is allowed to use it.”

No release date was announced for The Acolyte; it’s expected to come out sometime in 2024.

First footage of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew revealed

We end our Star Wars journey with Skeleton Crew, another new series on its way to Disney+. This one has been pitched as a mash-up between Stranger Things and Star Wars; it stars a group of children who are spirited across the galaxy on a mercenary ship and then need to pilot their way back home. And also Jude Law is there.

Skeleton Crew is being helmed by the MCU’s Spider-Man director Jon Watts, and will feature some star-studded guest directors like the Daniels of Everything Everywhere All At Once fame as well as The Green Knight director David Lowery.

Gizmodo’s Cheryl Eddy was at the Star Wars Celebration and did a great write-up of what sort of footage fans got to see in this exclusive trailer:

"In new footage introduced by Jude Law and child actors Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Kyriana Kratter, and Robert Timothy Smith, audiences were shown a trailer that opens with kids living on an unknown forested world. They go to school, living their lives riding speeder bikes, but longing for adventure and they find it when they go exploring in the woods one night. Their parents return home to a vision of Star Wars suburbia unlike anything we’ve seen in the franchise before… and find that their kids have gone missing. Those kids, our main group—two young girls (one wearing a Star Trek: TNG -tyle head visor), a young boy, and a small alien that looks very much like he’s a young Ortolan, one of the blue pudgy alies popularized by Max Rebo in Return of the Jedi—appear to have found their way aboard a mercenary starship. There are shots of them encountering weird creatures, holograms of their parents back home begging for them to return, and the kids being menaced by pirates (including, it seems, the Nikto pirate formerly of Gorian Shard’s crew in The Mandalorian, further tying the series’ timeline into the post-Return of the Jedi era). The kids find themselves on the run from blaster fire in what looks like a pirate base and flying away on their new ship before the trailer concludes with them locked up in a prison cell carved out of a cave. A hooded figure approaches, floating the key to their freedom in front of the kids with a whimsical display of the force. “He’s a Jedi!” One of the kids exclaims as the figure lowers their hood to reveal that it is Jude Law’s mysterious character."

Skeleton Crew doesn’t currently have a release date, but Disney has teased that it will premiere sometime in 2023.

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