Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X as well as Tesla and SpaceX, reacted to resurfaced comments from The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland describing the series as her lesbian fan fiction with a Star Wars veneer.
LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 07: Leslye Headland onstage during the Acolyte studio panel at the Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London at ExCel on April 07, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images for Disney)
During an interview last year at Star Wars Celebration discussing the series, Headland said, “When I saw Frozen as a grown a** woman, I cried through the entire movie. There was just something about the relationship between the sisters, the like devillainization of the classic kind of fairy tale ‘bad guy,’ you know, the concept of true love being between two sisters and not a heterosexual relationship. It just destroyed me, completely.”
She continued, “And I thought, ‘Gosh, I would love to make something like this, for lack of a better term, Disney.’ Meaning something that like my parents would have allowed me to see when I was younger as a queer person, but I would have been able to understand as a queer person. And I think I would have had a completely different life. And so I really was inspired by it and was like, ‘God, I would love to make a story like this.’”
LGBTQ+ activist Leslye Headland is a new director in the Star Wars franchise:
Her goal for the films? To make it LGBTQ-inclusive and similar to Disney fairy tales. pic.twitter.com/Anfkn9RciK
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 19, 2024
Headland then shared she took this idea and pitched it as The Acolyte, “And so when I was developing this original idea to pitch to [Lucasfilm President] Kathleen [Kennedy], I thought well, ‘You know, it can’t just be that.’ When you’re pitching Star Wars you have to pull from what George [Lucas] was also interested in.”
“It can’t just be like well I’m referencing- especially if you’re gonna set something during the High Republic, end of High Republic into prequels. You don’t have the Skywalker Saga. You can’t reference a character that was created by George and/or Filoni. You have to create your own new characters,” she added.
LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 07: Leslye Headland onstage during the Acolyte studio panel at the Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London at ExCel on April 07, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images for Disney)
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Musk reacted to this video writing on X, “Reality is actually crazier than the South Park parody!”
Reality is actually crazier than the South Park parody!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2024
If you are unfamiliar with South Park’s parody of current Star Wars projects, the show lampooned Star Wars in their special South Park: Joining the Panderverse.
Specifically, the show criticized how Lucasfilm creates Star Wars shows by putting a chick in it, and making it lame and gay. Eric Cartman as an alternate universe Kathleen Kennedy instructs Disney executives and filmmakers to put chicks in their various films and make them gay and lame. This includes films about Indiana Jones, Bambi, and Prince Eric. In fact, she even demands this be done to her linguini.
Clearly, Headland’s comments indicate she put a chick in the show and is making it gay and lame.
In fact, Headland reiterated much of this with an interview with Empire last year discussing the show. She informed the outlet, ““It is sort of a joke. But it was my elevator pitch to Kathy [Kennedy]: ‘I want to take that revisionist version of female villains that you see in a fairy-tale media and tell it through that lens.”
“When I was a young queer girl, I was just hanging out with Ursula the sea witch [from The Little Mermaid],” Headland shared. “As a queer girl growing up, if you don’t identify with the heroes, and the villains show up and they’re all queer-coded, you’re like — yes, that’s me!”
“As a queer filmmaker, you’re gonna see some camp. Inevitably! But I would say that tonally, our references are darker,” she added.
(L-R): Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae and Director Leslye Headland on the set of Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
What do you make of Musk’s reaction to Headland’s comments about The Acolyte?
Holy crap… this show needs to die on arrival.
Musk is slowly stating to see that the woke are a civilizational threat.