Regardless of getting cancelled, Manny Jacinto has stated one his greatest objectives earlier than he dies can be to make The Acolyte season 2.
In the direction of the top of final month, regardless of establishing some fairly vital occasions for the world of Star Wars as an entire, Disney made the selection to cancel The Acolyte, which means there will not be a second season to even wrap up the a number of free threads the primary established. Thought you’d lastly get to see Darth Plagueis in live-action in spite of everything these years? Nope! Which makes this a transfer that actually reveals how foolish it’s to try to world construct to such a level with far too many items of media today. Nonetheless, it was clear that everybody that made The Acolyte actually loved engaged on it, together with the forged, and through a panel at Dragon Con, Manny Jacinto made it clear how a lot he desires to maintain engaged on it.
When requested by a fan what a private life objective of his is, specifically one thing he desires to do earlier than he dies, Jacinto merely responded “season 2 of The Acolyte.” This was met with a fairly large spherical of applause from the viewers, exhibiting that there’s nonetheless not less than some quantity of starvation for the present to be continued.
Whereas I did have my very own issues with it, I did take pleasure in how The Acolyte explored different concepts of how individuals interpret the Power, and specifically the way it was making it clear that the Jedi won’t truly be all that nice – some extent it did not do sufficient with and I hoped can be delved into additional in a second season.
Following the present’s cancellation, its lead actor Amandla Stenberg stated that it was “not an enormous shock” following the “rampage of vitriol that we have now confronted because the present was even introduced.”
There are nonetheless extra Star Wars initiatives on the best way, like Skeleton Crew, which is out this December, and Andor, which is due out subsequent yr, however as at all times, by no means get too invested in a streaming present.