At the Star Wars Celebration in London, Lucasfilm announced that the Star Wars spin-off “The Acolyte” will premiere on Disney+ in 2024. The series is set at the end of the High Republic era, before the events of the main Star Wars films. Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae will play the lead roles.
The cast also includes Carrie-Anne Moss, Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Jodie Turner-Smith, Rebecca Henderson, Charlie Barnett and Dean-Charles Chapman. The series was first announced at Disney’s Investor Day in 2020.
Lucasfilm also announced today that the “Ahsoka” series will debut in August 2023. Ahsoka made her first live-action appearance in Season 2 of “The Mandalorian” after initially being introduced in the animated shows. The series features Rosario Dawson and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
The upcoming shows join the growing roster of live-action Star Wars series on Disney+, including “The Mandalorian,” “Andor,” and “The Book of Boba Fett.”
In addition, the company revealed that the second season of “Andor” will debut in August 2024. Filming began in November and is expected to conclude in August.
Lucasfilm also announced three Star Wars movies, one of which will feature Daisy Ridley’s return as Rey. The film is set 15 years after the events of “The Rise of Skywalker” and revolves around Rey forming a new Jedi Order. One of the films goes back to the beginnings of the Jedi, while the third focuses on the New Republic and the interconnected stories from “The Mandalorian”, “The Book of Boba Fett”, “Ahsoka” and other Disney+ series. Disney and Lucasfilm have not announced release dates for any of these films.