Star Wars: The Acolyte Has Found Its Star in Amandla Stenberg

Of all of the Star Wars exhibits coming to Disney+, one stays probably the most mysterious. It’s set in a time interval most followers don’t know and it’s not a couple of preexisting character, at the very least we predict it isn’t. What we do now’s that the present has its star: Amandla Stenberg.

Stenberg has reportedly been forged because the lead character in The Acolyte, which is being developed by Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland. The present is ready throughout the finish of The High Republic period (which you’ll learn all about in varied glorious books and comics presently out in shops), and with a title like The Acolyte, it’s prone to take care of some kind of Force customers. Whether these individuals use the sunshine facet or the darkish facet, we don’t know. (“Acolyte” has a darkish facet connotation in Star Wars.) The Illuminerdi first broke the information which was then confirmed by Variety and Deadline; io9 has reached out to Lucasfilm for remark and we’ll replace this put up ought to we hear again.

No one is strictly certain what position Stenberg is prone to play, solely that it’s almost certainly the lead and possibly a personality named “Aura.” No matter what the position is, although, it’s the lead of a Disney+ Star Wars present, making it the most important position of their profession to this point. Stenberg first position to prominence after they performed the younger Rue within the unique Hunger Games. From there, they did a number of roles culminating in essential approval for the charged drama The Hate U Give. Earlier this yr, they had been seen within the controversial musical Dear Evan Hansen. And now, they might be going to a galaxy far, distant, to a time even longer in the past.

We’ll have extra on The Acolyte because it breaks.

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