Star Wars: The Acolyte Casting: Jodie Turner-Smith Joins Up

Good information for followers of Star Wars’ Dark Side. It appears Leslye Headland’s High Republic-set Disney+ present, Star Wars: The Acolyte, is presently casting up past simply its star, Amandla Stenberg. Now actress Jodie Turner-Smith is reportedly becoming a member of the combination in an undisclosed position.

Turner-Smith will not be a family identify but however she’s properly on her method to that standing. Besides being forged in a brand new Star Wars present, the actress just lately appeared in this 12 months’s underrated sci-fi movie After Yang, and co-starred with Nope’s Daniel Kaluuya in the buzzed-about 2019 drama Queen and Slim. She’s additionally within the upcoming Adam Driver movie White Noise and the Adam Sandler/Jennifer Aniston sequel, Murder Mystery 2.

The commerce studies that The Acolyte will begin filming later this 12 months in London. Little is thought formally about it besides that it’s set hundreds of years earlier than the Skywalker Saga, and is more likely to concentrate on some type of Dark Side-adjacent Sith lore. Stenberg, who’s taking part in the lead, formally introduced their involvement at San Diego Comic-Con.

With Turner-Smith’s doubtless casting, and a fast-approaching begin date, it appears probably we’ll be listening to way more about The Acolyte quickly. (Maybe on the D23 Expo later this week?) As for once we’ll see the present, 2024 looks as if the almost definitely timeframe. Andor might be right here in a couple of quick weeks, adopted in February by season three of The Mandalorian. That’s more likely to be adopted by the Ahsoka present after which, in all probability, Jon Watts’ Skeleton Crew, which can be presently filming. Could we probably get 4 Star Wars exhibits in 2023? We’ll have to attend and discover out.

Deadline broke the information of the casting and io9 has reached out to Lucasfilm for remark. We’ll replace this story if or once we hear.

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