The upcoming Star Wars series The Acolyte could go on for more than just one season according to its showrunner. Speaking to IGN shortly after the debut of The Acolyte’s first trailer, Leslye Headland noted that there’s “absolutely room” for the series to grow beyond just one season.
“I think there’s absolutely room for it to grow,” Headland said. “I think that especially nowadays . . . I’m just the kind of person where I want to make sure a season feels like a legitimately whole story, and I definitely pepper in a lot of like, ‘Here’s how it could go this way, it could go that way.'”
The showrunner went on to stress that, as far as the series goes, she didn’t want to make the audience feel like they were waiting for something after the first season.
“I also don’t want to leave the audience hanging emotionally. I want to leave them hanging narratively but emotionally I want them to feel like they’ve watched a whole thing, and then still have a bunch of questions at the end like, ‘Wait, now that I’ve learned this relationship exists, what’s going to happen with those people, and now that this person has this type of power, what are we going to do about that?’ So I think it can definitely have some of that.”
Who is writing The Acolyte?
Star Wars: The Acolyte is written and executive produced by Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), who also serves as the showrunner. It stars Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game), Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials), Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna), Dean-Charles Chapman (1917), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Jodie Turner-Smith (After Yang), Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll), and Star Wars sequel trilogy alum Joonas Suotama as a new character in the form of a Wookiee Jedi master.
The Acolyte is described as a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers that will be set within the final days of the High Republic era. In addition to The Acolyte, Lucasfilm is also working on other Star Wars projects, including shows like Skeleton Crew, Andor Season 2, and Ahsoka Season 2.
