According to hints from director Shawn Levy, his upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter will be unlike anything fans have seen before. Levy is clear that the “do something new” mandate isn’t something he demanded before coming on board, but is an instruction coming from Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy to avoid legacy Star Wars characters.
The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland claims that negative audience reviews of her Star Wars show are "review bombing." However, she previously claimed she was "sad" that the show was being dismantled. Back on June 20th, Headland informed The Hollywood Reporter, "It...
The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland admitted that one of the main purposes of the show is to "break down the Jedi as a concept." Speaking with Maggie Lovitt at Collider, Headland was asked, "For you, as a fan of Star Wars, how much fun has it been to get to pick...
Canadian-owned media website ScreenRant attempted to spin The Acolyte as a success based on nebulous metrics from an analytics firm called Reelgood. In an article titled "Exclusive Data Suggests The Acolyte Is A Star Wars Success Story Despite The Backlash," Thomas...
The Walt Disney Company continues to use Jordan Peterson as a villain in its various IPs. The latest is having the Sith character played by Manny Jacinto quote Peterson at the end of the most recent episode. Jacinto's Qimir character says at the end of the episode,...
Weapons and fight scene expert and YouTuber Shad Brooks, who hosts Fight Scene Autopsy on his Shadiversity YouTube channel, broke down The Acolyte's lightsaber fights in the show's fifth episode. Brooks was unimpressed with the show's lightsaber fights from the very...
Viewership for The Acolyte has declined for the second week in a row according to data shared by analytics firm Luminate. As reported by Variety, viewership for The Acolyte declined to 232.2 million minutes watched for the week the show's fifth episode debuted. That's...
The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland confirmed that the last three episodes of the show's first season will not explore Qimir's background as a Sith. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Headland was asked, "Are we going to learn more of the Stranger’s...
Showrunner for Lucasfilm's latest Star Wars series The Acolyte, Leslye Headland, admitted that the show has not been greenlit for a second season yet. In a lengthy interview with Entertainment Weekly breaking down much of the events that happened in the show's fifth...
Leslye Headland, the showrunner for The Acolyte, recently cast doubt on the idea that the show will get greenlit for a second season. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly following the release of the show's fifth episode, Headland said, "Something that I've noticed is...
Actor Manny Jacinto, who plays Qimir and the Sith in The Acolyte, recently attempted to explain the final line his character delivers in the fifth episode and by doing so he claims the it will begin a "new story" with the sixth episode. In the show's fifth episode,...
The Acolyte actress Amandla Stenberg jokingly described Leslye Headland as a "sick" and "twisted" while discussing the most recent episode that saw Manny Jacinto's Qimir kill a number of Jedi on the planet Khofar. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Headland first...
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." In an Instagram Story post earlier this month, Sonnier, who also...