It’s official. The next live-action Star Wars that’ll hit your eyeballs is The Acolyte, and it’s coming sooner than you may think. Disney just revealed a teaser poster for the show with an intriguing tagline, lightsaber, and the release date of June 4. Oh, and the trailer is coming Tuesday. Here’s the image. “In an age of light, a darkness rises.” Ominous stuff. What we know for sure though is that the “age of light” mentioned here is the High Republic, a time centuries before any of the films.
As more clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems….” In the lead-up to the show, many thought Stenberg’s character was the evil one but here it seems maybe that’s not the case. Or, at least, not the only interpretation. Then there’s the image on the poster itself. Clearly, that’s a lightsaber with a trail of blood.