The Acolyte Adds Manny Jacinto To Its Stellar Star Wars Ensemble

Breakout star of considered one of tv’s finest comedy’s of the final decade The Good Place, Manny Jacinto has just lately been popping up in main properties like Top Gun: Maverick and a favourite to be primed to be snatched up by a franchise. And now in response to Deadline, he’s becoming a member of the Star Wars universe in Leslye Headland’s The Acolyte.

Jacinto joins. alongside Lee Jung-Jae (Squid Game), Amandla Sternberg (Bodies Bodies Bodies) and Jodie Turner-Smith (After Yang) within the killer solid, which is actually stacking up and now one of the vital anticipated initiatives coming to Disney+. Headland has been a filmmaker on the rise for since her work on Russian Doll, and serves because the director, author, govt producer, and showrunner of The Acolyte.

Lucasfilm describes the collection in official Star Wars press releases as a “mystery thriller” that’s reportedly going to give attention to Dark Side Force customers within the Old Republic. In an interview on May 17, Headland revealed it takes place about 100 years earlier than The Phantom Menace. “A lot of those characters haven’t even been born yet,” she stated. “We’re taking a look at the political and personal and spiritual things that came up in a time period that we don’t know much about. My question when watching The Phantom Menace was always like, ‘Well, how did things get to this point?’ How did we get to a point where a Sith lord can infiltrate the Senate and none of the Jedi pick up on it? Like, what went wrong? What are the scenarios that led us to this moment?”

There’s no launch date as of but, however The Acolyte is predicted to drop someday in 2023.

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