‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Teaser Trailer Online

‘Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland created and is running the show, which is set roughly 100 years before the events of ‘The Phantom Menace’ and sees a new darkness rising.

Preview:

The first teaser trailer for ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ has arrived.
This new series stars Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae and Carrie-Anne Moss.
‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ lands on Disney+ on June 4th.

Though ‘The Bad Batch’ has been keeping the ‘Star Wars’ flag flying on the small screen in animated fashion, we haven’t had a Lucasfilm/Disney+ live-action series set in that galaxy far, far away for a few months now, since ‘Ahsoka’ finished its first season in October.

If you saw the stylish, bloody poster for ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ that arrived yesterday, you know that we don’t have too long to wait for the next one to show up. And it certainly looks like the poster was simply a harbinger of things to come –– given what happens in the first trailer for the show, it’s definitely promising something moodier, and even more action packed than recent efforts.

And setting the story outside of the ‘Wars’ narrative we’ve all gotten so used to in movies and TV is a plus too, since it allows the creative team to go to interesting places and introduce brand new characters.

What’s the story of ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’?

Mae (Amandla Stenberg) in Lucasfilm's 'The Acolyte,' exclusively on Disney+.

The new show is set around 100 years before the start of the Skywalker Saga (AKA ‘The Phantom Menace’), coming in at the end of a time period known as The High Republic –– a time in which the Jedi are thriving, as is the galaxy at large.

But this is ‘Star Wars’, and if we know anything, it’s that the dark side can’t be too far away! And so it proves: an investigation into a shocking crime spree pits a respected Jedi Master (Lee Jung-jae) against a dangerous warrior from his past (Amandla Stenberg). As more clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems….

Who is starring in ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’?

Jedi Master Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss) in Lucasfilm's 'The Acolyte,' exclusively on Disney+.

Alongside Lee and Stenberg, the cast includes Carrie-Anne Moss, Dafne Keen, Jodie Turner-Smith, Manny Jacinto and Charlie Barnett.

Also featured? Current Chewbacca suit-wearer Joonas Suotamo, back on Wookiee duty, but this time as hairy Jedi Kelnacca.

This series is the brainchild of Leslye Headland, who previously worked on the likes of time-twisting comedy drama ‘Russian Doll’. Here, as with that series, she runs the show and directs the first two episodes, with Kogonada, Alex Garcia Lopez and Hanelle Culpepper each handling two of the eight-episode run.

When will ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ be on screens?

Jedi Master Kelnacca (Joonas Suotamo) in Lucasfilm's 'The Acolyte,' exclusively on Disney+.

The new ‘Star Wars’ series lands on Disney+ with its first two episodes on June 4th.

“June the 4th be with you”? Hhhm… doesn’t have the same ring as “May”, but then the month before is being devoted to a theatrical re-release for ‘The Phantom Menace’.

Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) in Lucasfilm's 'The Acolyte,' exclusively on Disney+.

(Clockwise from center) Jedi Master Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss), Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae), Jedi Master Kelnacca (Joonas Suotamo) and (second from right) Master Torbin (Dean Charles Chapman) in Lucasfilm's 'The Acolyte,' exclusively on Disney+. ©2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.