‘Star Wars’ collection ‘The Acolyte’ canceled

The Acolyte isn’t any extra. The Star Wars collection won’t return for a second season, EW has realized.

The eight-episode first season of the collection dropped between June and July on Disney+. It starred Amandla Stenberg as twins Osha and Mae, alongside Lee Jung-jae as Sol, a Jedi Grasp. Manny Jacinto, Charlie Barnett, and Yoda additionally appeared.

Set within the final days of the Excessive Republic period, the collection targeted on “an investigation right into a surprising crime spree” that pitted “a revered Jedi Grasp towards a harmful warrior from his previous.” The occasions befell earlier than the blockbuster Skywalker films.

In July, creator Leslye Headland instructed Leisure Weekly that she had heard nothing concerning the present’s future. She could not cease interested by future tales she would inform, despite the fact that she was making an attempt to take pleasure in her downtime between seasons. She was hopeful.

“You must take a break,” Headland stated. “Particularly after one thing like this. I do not even know what number of years my mind has been going, Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars, Acolyte, Acolyte, Acolyte — simply continuously fixing issues, continuously interested by it. It is vitally bizarre to now be in a spot the place I do not want to do this. I all the time say to budding writers, ‘Crucial factor that you are able to do is sit round and do nothing. As a result of the second you begin to manufacture a narrative, you are going to get wired, and the story cannot begin that means.'”

In response to Deadline, the primary two episodes of The Acolyte, which dropped June 4, drew 4.8 million views in its first day, making it the largest collection premiere on the streamer this 12 months. However views took a nosedive by the subsequent installment, and although critics just like the collection, viewers critiques on-line weren’t type.

Disney+ collection The Mandalorian, which started in 2019, will proceed.

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