Description
The Acolyte is a live-action series developed by Leslye Headland for the Disney+ streaming service. Headland served as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. It premiered on June 4, 2024, and the first season concluded on July 16 of the same year; in August 2024, it was reported that the project had been canceled.
The story unfolds roughly a century before the events of The Phantom Menace, in the final years of the High Republic era, a period previously explored mainly in the books and comics of the publishing program. In genre, it is a mystery thriller: a former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes.
The series shows the Jedi Order at the height of its influence and takes up the theme of the dark side of the Force manifesting itself, remaining one of the few screen works of the canon about this era.
Related events
- Return of the dark side at the close of the High Republic — 132 BBY; approximate date
- Duel on Brendok — 132 BBY; exact date
- Mission to Khofar and the death of a Jedi team — 132 BBY; exact date
- Death of Master Torbin on Olega — 132 BBY; exact date
- Murder of Master Indara on Ueda — 132 BBY; exact date