'The Acolyte' Star Wars series will hit Disney+ in 2024<p>At the Star Wars Celebration in London, Lucasfilm has unveiled a raft of news, trailers and more on its numerous upcoming streaming series, <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/star-wars-the-acolyte-first-look-1235363224/">
Variety[/url] has reported. That starts with a first look at <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/obi-wan-kenobi-teaser-trailer-191316412.html">
The Acolyte[/url] showed to the ExCel Center crowd (but not online yet) and a launch date window of sometime in 2024. </p><p>First revealed at Disney's Investor Day 2020,
The Acolyte takes place in the High Republic era of the Star Wars universe (100 years before the franchise’s prequel trilogy) during a period called the Golden Age of the Jedi. The cast includes <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="
https://variety.com/t/jodie-turner-smith/">Jodie Turner-Smith[/url],
The Good Place star Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Rebecca Henderson and Carrie-Anne Moss.</p><span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>The first look showed footage of a Jedi temple, fighting with Moss, a gold lightsaber, and a shots of the Jedis lighting up their sabers in unison. "This is about power and who is allowed to use it," a tagline read. The show is reportedly a "mystery thriller" seen from the perspective of the Siths, with the term "acolyte" describing soldiers of Sith Lords, according to
Variety.</p><div id="50231963ba994db5adc4f1b8905ec01c"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Warrior. Outcast. Rebel. Jedi.
#Ahsoka arrives August 2023 on
@DisneyPlus.
pic.twitter.com/SBfCgr4WRA</p>— Star Wars | #TheMandalorian is Now Streaming (@starwars)
April 7, 2023</div><p>Lucasfilm also revealed that the <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/disney-play-ahsoka-hayden-christensen-095105982.html">
Ahsoka[/url] series will debut in August of 2023, and stars Rosario Dawson and Mary Elizabeth Winstead revealed a teaser trailer to the crowd (above), with Dawson intoning "Something is coming, something dark." </p><p>In other news, creator Tony Gilroy also showed off a trailer (also not online yet) and said that <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/star-wars-andor-trailer-release-date-the-mandalorian-disney-plus-204524984.html">
Andor[/url]'s second and final season will debut in August 2024. Meanwhile, Jude Law and Jon Favreau showed off the first trailer for <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/star-wars-skeleton-crew-1235363983/">
Skeleton Crew[/url], a Spielberg-esque series focused on a group of rebellious kids. The footage showed Jude Law as a Jedi, kids on speeders and spaceships, and a baddie from The Mandalorian. </p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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'The Acolyte' Star Wars series will hit Disney+ in 2024
