THE ACOLYTE live-action TV series

At Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023‘s High Republic panel followers acquired one other sneak peak at forthcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte and a bonus shock – Vernestra Rwoh, one of many early characters from the novels, will make the leap to stay motion, performed by Canadian actor Rebecca Henderson. Lucasfilm Publishing Creative Director Michael Siglain additionally went over the concluding elements of section II and disclosed the whole section III slate of novels for adults, YA, and center grade.

The Acolyte creator, showrunner, director and author Leslye Headland made a shock look instantly after the web livestream – which coated the publishing schedule – concluded and following a second screener of the teaser footage from Friday’s Lucasfilm Showcase talked extra in regards to the High Republic TV series, her love of studying Star Wars tie-in novels rising up, and that – regardless of the series being set very late within the High Republic timeline – a extra mature Vernestra Rwoh will likely be part of the series, performed by Headland’s spouse Rebecca Henderson.

Vernestra Rwoh made her first look within the January 2021 center grade novel Star Wars: The High Republic – A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland, a part of the primary section of High Republic novels (set round 200 years earlier than the Phantom Menace film) and the primary High Republic novel for the center grade market. Rwoh is a Mirialan Jedi Knight and really early in her profession within the novel. The stay motion model may have her portrayed as a lot older, way more skilled and – in accordance with Headland – emblematic of the crossroads and journey on which the Jedi are travelling within the forthcoming series which is way nearer to the top of the High Republic period (which spans 300 years).

Headland additionally stated that The Acolyte will goal to bridge the High Republic period with the Fall of the Jedi period (i.e. the primary six episodes of the Skywalker Saga coated within the films) of the brand new Star Wars timeline.

For a publishing initiative that has solely been in existence barely two years, it has already accrued a powerful fan following – one thing that was famous by the panel with its enthusiastic viewers already cosplaying their favorite characters and cheering each tease and announcement. With Lucasfilm Senior VP of Franchise Content and Strategy James Waugh saying the initiative’s success had given them “license” to maintain going, and that this was nonetheless solely the start.

The conclusion of Phase II is known as The Night of Sorrow. Phase III: Trials of the Jedi will kick off with George Mann’s The Eye of Darkness in November 2023. Phase III takes place one 12 months after the autumn of Starlight Beacon in Claudia Gray’s The Fallen Star (2022) and is anticipated to run by means of to Spring 2025 – a extra unfold out schedule that Waugh signifies is designed to provide new followers an opportunity to atone for the story up to now.

The High Republic covers a timeline that stretches 350 to 50 years previous to occasions in Episode I: The Phantom Menace and is outlined as when the Jedi Order was on the peak of its powers. It launched with Phase I: Light of the Jedi in early 2021, adopted by Phase II: Quest of the Jedi (set 150 years earlier than Phase I) in fall 2022. It is a multimedia initiative that features novels, comics, manga, audio dramas, brief and serialised fiction in Star Wars Insider journal. Young Jedi Adventures, a youngsters’s animated cartoon, and The Acolyte live-action TV present, will see it increase to tv.

Star Wars: The High Republic – Phase III: Trials of the Jedi Novel Slate [Fall 2023 to Spring 2025]

ADULT

The Eye of Darkness, by George Mann (Random House Worlds), November 14, 2023
Temptation of the Force, by Tessa Gratton (Random House Worlds), Summer 2024
Trials of the Jedi, Charles Soule (Random House Worlds), Spring 2025

YOUNG ADULT

Defy the Storm, by Tessa Gratton & Justina Ireland (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), March 12, 2024
Tears of the Nameless, George Mann (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), Fall 2024
Into the Light, Claudia Gray (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), Spring 2025

MIDDLE GRADE

Escape from Valo, by David José Older & Alyssa Wong (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), January 30, 2024
Beware the Nameless, by Zoraida Córdova (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), Spring 2024
A Valiant Vow, by Justina Ireland (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), Spring 2025