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May 20, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernández |Miguel Fernández
The latest promo for The Acolyte is quite different from the regular 30-second TV spot or even a standard behind-the-scenes look at how the show was made. In a two-minute video that was posted by the official Star Wars YouTube channel on Monday, we see lead actress Amandla Stenberg take on a special violin solo.
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May 19, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernández |Miguel Fernández
Welcome back to “This Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away“, as we’re counting down the days for The Acolyte to come out. Below, you’ll find a full-scale Acolyte edition of this newsletter-style series, but only after we break down the latest in Star Wars news. It was Upfronts week, but only Marvel Television got the spotlight from Disney’s presentation. Star Wars will probably have to wait until D23 in early August for some big news.
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May 16, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernandez |Miguel Fernández
Images of character posters for The Acolyte being displayed on the street have been posted to social media by one of the people from the Disney marketing department. Five characters from the series are spotlighted here: Lee Jung-jae as Master Sol, Dafne Keen as Jecki Lon, Joonas Suotamo as Kelnacca, Carrie-Anne Moss as Master Indara, and Amandla Stenberg as Mae. The official images for these have not been revealed by Lucasfilm yet, but they should hit online within the next few days.
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May 15, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernández |Miguel Fernández
A new behind-the-scenes promo for The Acolyte was posted recently to the Australia and New Zealand official YouTube channel, focusing on Lee Jung-jae’s Master Sol and featuring a lot brief glimpses of new footage. In it, we see several members of the cast and crew talk about the South Korean actor, including Leslye Headland, who said she was writing the character at the time Squid Game game out, and immediately realized she’d found the actor to play Sol.
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May 15, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernández |Miguel Fernández
Variety published earlier this week new data that suggests that, despite having been released before 2024, several Star Wars series have been performing rather well on Disney Plus since the year began. The graph at the bottom was made by the data analytics company Luminate Data, which observed that four Star Wars series account for more than 15% of the viewership share of Disney Plus originals between Dec. 29 and May 10.
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May 13, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernandez |Miguel Fernández
A new spot for The Acolyte was posted to Twitter over the weekend, featuring new footage, dialogue, and also some interesting details. Courtesy of @Zcure1, the promo shows a few seconds of a flashback scene featuring Jedi Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) and a younger Mae (Amandla Stenberg). It also features Jung-jae’s character in the present timeline finding Stenberg on the edge of a cliff — only it’s a less determined character now, and looks even scared. “I didn’t do it”, she says.
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May 12, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernández |Miguel Fernández
Happy Sunday, and welcome back to a new edition of “This Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away“. It’s been an interesting week, with a lot of stuff happening over the past couple of days after a very slow start. From learning about George Lucas’ reaction to Obi-Wan Kenobi to finding out the first piece of casting news for a Star Wars movie in nearly six years, there’s plenty of stuff to discuss today.
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May 11, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernández |Miguel Fernández
Adria Arjona was recently featured in “Empire Spotlight”, a subsection of the latest issue of Empire Magazine in which the actress, currently about to embark on the press tour for the Netflix-distributed comedy Hit Man, spoke about her career and some of the things in her horizon. In particular, Arjona will be returning for Andor season 2, which she briefly discussed.
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May 11, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernández |Miguel Fernández
Kevin Kiner and his family returned to score the latest Star Wars animation project, Tales of the Empire, and now the music is available for anyone to listen to on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, or your favorite music streaming platform. The series marked the return of Barriss Offee, and along with her came the old Clone Wars themes.
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May 11, 2024 | 
starwarsnewsnet.com | Miguel Fernández |Miguel Fernández
A new 30-second clip from The Acolyte has emerged online (hat tip to @Zcure1) featuring an extended look at the fight scene between Amandla Stenberg’s Mae and Carrie-Anne Moss’ Master Indara. The preview was part of the footage shown at the end of The Phantom Menace screenings last weekend, and features what is likely the first display of the fighting style that will be a part of the show: a mix of martial arts, using of the Force, and lightsaber-wielding.
