With the third and closing season of Star Wars: The Dangerous Batch and the miniseries Tales of the Empire now firmly within the rearview mirror, the Star Wars franchise is revving up for one more new addition. The primary live-action collection in a while, Star Wars: The Acolyte goals to take viewers again in time. Lengthy earlier than the Empire, lengthy earlier than the Clone Wars, there was the Jedi Order, the Republic, and a mysterious, highly effective drive looking for to destroy them each.

The Acolyte takes audiences a century forward of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as a bunch of Jedi try and type out a legal conspiracy. Jedi are being killed left and proper and nobody is aware of who’s accountable. This intriguing story comes from collection creator and showrunner Leslye Headland, who’s no stranger to the Star Wars galaxy.

In actual fact, Headland herself shared that her love of Star Wars helped her create The Acolyte. Extra particularly, her love and information of Star Wars RPGs and the Expanded Universe influenced her artistic path. “I used to be coming at it as a fan who was far more into the RPG that the Prolonged Universe feeds on,” Headland stated in an interview with Self-importance Honest.

Persevering with, Headland talked about that Star Wars RPGs went a good distance in serving to her creativity come out as a child. She didn’t really feel the necessity to adhere strictly to what the movies needed to supply narratively, as a substitute making her personal enjoyable in George Lucas’ large sandbox. She introduced that mentality to The Acolyte, affording her the prospect to push the boundaries of Star Wars itself.

“I used to be in a position to escape into that world with my associates, to fake that I used to be a part of that world. It was not like, ‘And now you need to do a scene from the unique film,’” she added, noting that, in her thoughts, there’s way more to Star Wars storytelling than strictly rehashing the core story parts, character arcs, and the like of the now-nine movie-long Skywalker saga.

Although Headland didn’t title any particular Star Wars video games in her Self-importance Honest interview, she did not directly point out one sport that helped lay the inspiration of her Acolyte imaginative and prescient elsewhere. She instructed Den of Geek, “Darth Traya actually caught out to me as an inspiration.” Traya (Sara Kestelman), previously the Jedi Kreia, is a serious participant within the 2004 hit RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic II – The Sith Lords.

Fortunately, followers don’t have to attend too lengthy to see the place particularly Headland’s enduring love for Star Wars RPGs manifests in her present. The Acolyte premieres on June 4 solely on Disney+.