The Acolyte Adds Carrie-Anne Moss and Dafne Keen as Production Begins

‘The Acolyte’ is about throughout the finish of The Excessive Republic, and stars Amandla Stenberg.

Leslye Headland‘s enterprise right into a galaxy far, distant appears prefer it’s shaping as much as be considered one of Star Wars‘ most spectacular ensembles up to now. With The Acolyte now in manufacturing the upcoming sequence has been steadily including to its already spectacular forged checklist. As manufacturing begins on the brand new sequence, Disney revealed that The Matrix‘s Carrie-Anne Moss, Rebecca Henderson, and Dafne Eager might be becoming a member of Amandla Sternberg within the upcoming sequence set throughout the late Excessive Republic period.

Eager received her large break within the gritty superhero movie Logan, the place she performed younger mutant Laura reverse Hugh Jackman‘s Wolverine. She will at the moment be seen taking part in Lyra Belaqua in HBO’s fantasy sequence His Darkish Supplies, primarily based on the Phillip Pullman novels of the identical title. The third season of the present is about to premiere in December. Henderson is greatest identified for her work in Inventing Anna. Moss is probably essentially the most well-known of the trio of newcomers to the sequence, together with her most notable position as Trinity in The Matrix franchise.

The Forged of The Acolyte

Sternberg was first connected to guide the manufacturing in December 2021, however Lucasfilm did not affirm their casting till they had been at SDCC this 12 months to advertise the A24 horror flick Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies. A couple of months later, a slew of casting bulletins arrived, with Jodie Smith-Turner in talks to board the mission, which additionally contains Squid Recreation‘s Emmy-winner Lee Jung-Jae becoming a member of in a lead position, in addition to Manny Jacinto and Russian Doll alum Charlie Barnett. Whereas particulars in regards to the sequence are nonetheless sparse, one factor is definite: it has a stunning and gifted forged.

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In Might, Collider spoke with Lucasfilm’s President Kathleen Kennedy in regards to the increasing Star Wars universe, and she or he appeared optimistic in regards to the doorways that The Acolyte would possibly open up, saying “We truly had been intrigued with that as a result of if that present works, then it actually provides us a possibility to develop on that. And that is what’s so nice about tv as a result of it provides us type of this bigger playground for experimenting.”

Provided that Headland can be extra keen on participating with the geography of the Star Wars universe, reasonably than current visuals, it undoubtedly has the potential to be not like earlier ventures right into a galaxy far, distant. She is trying to create a female-centric Star Wars sequence, which is a good deviation from the male-centric tales of The Mandalorian, The Guide of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Andor—all of that are named for his or her titular male characters. Ahsoka is one other female-centric sequence on the horizon as properly. Whereas the entire Disney+ sequence up to now have had various leads and, within the case of Obi-Wan Kenobi, a various ensemble forged, The Acolyte appears to be striving in direction of turning into essentially the most various entry into the Star Wars universe. Which is smart when The Excessive Republic publishing initiative has equally been a supply of various illustration.

Try our interview with Moss throughout the press tour for The Matrix Resurrections.