‘Star Wars’ series ‘The Acolyte’ appoints Amandla Stenberg to star

The “star Wars” series “the assistantOfficially led by Amandla Stenberg.

The announcement came Friday, with the official ‘Star Wars’ account Twitter outside Stenberg image. Going further back in time than any Star Wars title before it, “The Acolyte” is set a century before the events of “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.” The series promises to depict the galaxy at the height of the High Republic era, when Capricorn was at its strongest and the Sith were believed to have been wiped out from the galaxy.

Was Stenberg Rumored about the role In a report from December 2021, but the news is now official.

The creator of the “Russian Doll” Leslie Hedland The series premieres, with Stenberg set to star (“The Hate U Give”). Hedland derives at least in part from the publishing effort of Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The High Republic.” The “High Republic” series was announced in February 2020 and launched throughout 2021, and it includes comic books, audio dramas, web series, and novels. They served as a kind of research and development department where Lucasfilm could then take on the telling of “Star Wars” stories.

Stenberg, who is best known as a non-binary, broke out as Rue in a 2012 adaptation of “The Hunger Games.” Since then, they have starred in films such as “The Hate U Give”, “The Darkest Minds”, “Everything, Everything” and the latest feature version of “Dear Evan Hansen” as Alana Beck. Stenberg has also appeared in TV Shows like “Sleepy Hollow”, “The Eddy” and “Mr. Robinson“.

“We take a look at the political, personal, and spiritual things that emerged in a time period about which we don’t know much,” Hedland. Tell Vanity Fair May. My question when watching ‘The Phantom Menace’ was always like, ‘Well, how did things get to this point? “How did we get to a point where a Sith Lord can sneak into the Senate and no Jedi captures him? Like, what went wrong? What scenarios led us to this moment?”

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star wars July 22 2022