This has been a suspicion from day one, but The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland now confirms the show is about the bad guys. In a recent interview with IGN, Headland talked about the era she’s creating in this show and how it differs from the era’s we’ve seen more of.
“I think you’re seeing the Jedi when they are this very, very large institution – a benevolent one – but they are closer to who they are in the Phantom Menace than obviously in the Original Trilogy where you feel like they’re almost extinct. In a weird way, in the Phantom Menace and the Prequel Trilogy, the Jedi outnumber the Sith. And then in the Original Trilogy, the Empire outnumber the Jedi, which is why a show based on the “bad guys” is interesting to me. In that era, what does the underdog look like? Even if they’re the bad guy.”
It’s always been a take I’ve wanted to see covered in Star Wars. It remains to be seen whether this is the project to realise that though.
Headland also talked about building practical sets for Coruscant, and a few other interesting comments. For one Headland conformed there are no Nightsisters in her show. However, that race were an inspiration for her in putting together The Acolyte. Though in general here Headland is referring to The Clone Wars as an inspiration in full.
“We don’t have any Nightsisters in this show, but being inspired by them, being inspired by Asajj Ventress. My favorite episode is The Wrong Jedi. I definitely took some inspiration from that.”
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Headland also had thoughts about where The Acolyte could go next. There is no Season 2 greenlight as far as we know. However, Headland thinks there is room for the story to grow from here on out.
“I think there’s absolutely room for it to grow. I think that especially nowadays… I’m just the kind of person where I want to make sure a season feels like a legitimately whole story, and I definitely pepper in a lot of like, “Here’s how it could go this way, it could go that way.”
“I also don’t want to leave the audience hanging emotionally. I want to leave them hanging narratively but emotionally, I want them to feel like they’ve watched a whole thing, and then still have a bunch of questions at the end like, “Wait, now that I’ve learned this relationship exists, what’s going to happen with those people, and now that this person has this type of power, what are we going to do about that?” So I think it can definitely have some of that.”
There is more in the source article if you care to take a look. However, I felt the rest of Headland’s comments were just matching what we’ve reported already from other outlets.
So, The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland now confirms the show is about the bad guys. Is that something you are for, or against? Let us know below as always.
