‘Bone Tomahawk’ Producer Claims ‘The Acolyte’ Showrunner Leslye Headland Used To Be Based And “Would Have S**T All Over The Acolyte For Its Stupid Gender Motives And Dumb Physics”

Bone Tomahawk Producer Dallas Sonnier recently claimed that The Acolyte showrunner used to be based and that she “would have s**t all over The Acolyte for its stupid gender motives and dumb physics.”

Dallas Sonnier Press Photo. Photo Credit: Dallas Sonnier, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

In an Instagram Story post earlier this month, Sonnier, who also produced Run Hide Fight and Terror on the Prairie posted, “The Acolyte makes me sad on many levels. Star Wars is awesome. Was awesome.”

He continued, “I discovered Leslye in a 15 seat theatre on Santa Monica Blvd back in 2007. Like Greta [Gerwig], I locked arms with this woman and forced Hollywood to pay attention to her. Leslye was so frickin’ based back then.”

She would have s**t all over The Acolyte for its stupid gender motives and dumb physics like fire in outer space,” he added.

(L-R): Amandla Stenberg , set PA Taylor Young, director Leslye Headland and director of photography Chris Teague on the set of Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©.

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Sonnier then stated, “Last saw her in 2017. And she was still her old self. But her reboot of Heathers (co-starring an even younger Brett Cooper !!!) soon got cancelled. Very publicly for all the wrong dumb reasons. And it really shook her spirits. I saw her lean into modern victim mentality more with Russian Doll on Netflix, and really no turning back from there…”

He then speculates that Headland pushed progressive agendas in order to be accepted by Hollywood, “Hey look, we all get older, we all gotta pay the bills, and the world cracked. I get it.”

“But it is just sad to see someone I managed for over 8 years, and cared so much about become the very thing she and I would mock mercilessly for a decade,” Sonnier concluded.

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Headland told The Hollywood Reporter, ““Honestly, I feel sad that people would think that if something were gay, that that would be bad.”

She then added that she was the one who was indeed sad because her show was being dismantled, “It makes me feel sad that a bunch of people on the internet would somehow dismantle what I consider to be the most important piece of art that I’ve ever made.”

(L-R): Director Leslye Headland and Lee Jung-jae on the set of Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

Headland would also attempt to reject the idea she created queer content with The Acolyte, “I don’t believe that I’ve created queer, with a capital Q, content.”

She also addressed critics of the show describing the lesbian space witches she introduced in the show’s third episode as lesbian space witches. She said, “They’re in a matriarchal society. As a gay woman, I knew it would read that their sexuality is queer, but there also aren’t any men in their community. So a closeness between the two of them would be natural. It seemed plot-driven.”

She then stated, “I would say it’s really reductive to call them lesbians. I think it means you’re not really paying attention to this story.”

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MAY 23: (L-R) Leslye Headland, Dave Filoni, Chief Creative Officer, Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy, President, Lucasfilm attend the launch event for Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars series The Acolyte at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on May 23, 2024. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)

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