The Acolyte Was Inspired By This Iconic Star Wars Game
There’s nonetheless loads we do not find out about The Acolyte, the upcoming Star Wars live-action sequence on Disney+ that takes place roughly 100 years earlier than the prequel trilogy. Whereas a lot of the principal characters of the present have been revealed, the trailers have solely supplied a number of fleeting glimpses of an murderer whose face is hidden by a masks. Now, sequence creator Leslye Headland is shedding some gentle on the inspiration behind that character, and it got here from a traditional Star Wars online game.
By way of Den of Geek, Headland confirmed that the character that caught her eye was Darth Traya, the first villain of 2004’s Knights of the Outdated Republic II: The Sith Lords.
“Darth Traya actually caught out to me as an inspiration,” famous Headland, who additionally revealed that she was tempted to introduce one other determine from the lore of the Sith.
“I actually toyed with using Darth Bane or mentioning Bane,” mentioned Headland. “We don’t do it within the first season, however it’s clearly the legacy of those practitioners of the darkish aspect… Whereas we do not get into that individual lore, there have been some issues in Legends that I wished to pull out as a result of I felt they had been actually attention-grabbing, not solely to the storyline however to myself as a fan. I assumed, ‘Properly, I might love to try this.'”
Headland additionally defined why she determined to select a time interval the place the Sith had been at a major drawback towards the Jedi.
“In live-action, you have not seen the Sith because the underdogs, as wildly outnumbered by the variety of Jedi which can be within the universe. It appeared attention-grabbing to me to discover that,” mentioned Headland.
The Acolyte will premiere on Disney+ with two episodes on June 4.
