Star Wars: The Acolyte gets a Disney Plus release date, and it’s almost exactly when we expected it to debut
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Disney and Lucasfilm have confirmed whenStar Wars: The Acolytewill make its Disney Plus debut – and it’s almost exactly when we expected it to do so.
Confirmed on X/Twitter today (March 18), the next Star Wars TV series will launch on Disney’s primary streamer on Tuesday, June 4. The official announcement comes around a month afterThe Acolyte’s apparent release date leaked online. Collider, who leaked that information in late February, suggested it would arrive on June 7, so the US outlet wasn’t far off with its guess.
We already knew thatThe Acolytewasone of many confirmed Marvel and Star Wars shows for 2024, but it’s nonetheless pleasing to finally see an official launch date.
Tomorrow. #TheAcolyte pic.twitter.com/ILIfVu11veMarch 18, 2024
That isn’t the only good news that Star Wars fans will receive this week concerningThe Acolyte. Indeed, the X/Twitter post also confirms something else will be unveiled tomorrow (March 19), which all but confirms thatStar Wars: The Acolyte’s first trailer will be publicly released. It’s unclear if this first look at theDisney Plusseries will be the same teaser that was shown off to Star Wars Celebration 2023 attendees in London last May, or if it’ll be an entirely new cut-together trailer. Regardless, we don’t have long to wait to find out.
It’s high time we saw a trailer, too. In mid-February, we reported thatThe Acolyte’s first public trailer was ready to go, although industry insider Daniel Richtman – who claimed a teaser had been prepped – declined to state when it would arrive. Much like the hotly anticipated show’s release date leak, then, Disney and Lucasfilm kept us all waiting a little big longer for an official reveal.
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Plot wise, we don’t know much aboutStar Wars: The Acolyte. The only official information we have to go on is a brief synopsis courtesy ofStarWars.com, which revealed it’ll be “a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era”. As part of its story,The Acolytewill follow an ex-Padawan who “reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.”
However, Dafne Knee, who wasone of many cast updates thatThe Acolytereceived in November 2022, exclusively told TechRadar – in December 2023 – that the serieswill show how the Sith infiltrated the Jedi Order. Now that a release date has been unveiled and a trailer is less than 24 hours away (at the time of writing) from being released online, it’s time to start getting really excited for one of the numerousnew Star Wars TV shows and moviesthat’ll be with us over the coming years. Prepare your Star Wars cosplay accordingly, everyone.
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