{"id":49996,"date":"2021-12-08T20:08:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T01:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=49996"},"modified":"2021-12-21T17:11:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:11:56","slug":"amandla-stenberg-disney-star-wars-acolyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/08\/amandla-stenberg-disney-star-wars-acolyte\/","title":{"rendered":"Amandla Stenberg In Talks For Disney+&#8217;s STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acolyte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acolyte.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars Acolyte\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acolyte.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acolyte-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amandla Stenberg will be headlining the upcoming Disney+ <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> series <em>The Acolyte<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/tv\/news\/star-wars-disney-plus-the-acolyte-amandla-stenberg-1235129537\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Variety<\/a> is reporting that the <strong>The Hate U Give<\/strong> and <strong>Dear Evan Hansen<\/strong> star is currently in negotiations to star in the series, which will be the first set outside of the main timeline of all the previous the <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> films and television shows.<\/p>\n<p>As revealed last December, during Disney&#8217;s Investors Day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/10\/disney-announces-plans-for-10-more-star-wars-series-for-disney-including-ahsoka-rangers-of-the-new-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation<\/a>, <em>The Acolyte<\/em> is set during the newly unveiled High Republic Era, a time several hundred years before the Fall of the Galactic Republic and rise of the evil Galactic Empire as seen in the <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> prequel trilogy films. Although a general time of peace, the show will be \u201cmystery thriller that will take us into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark side powers in the waning days of the High Republic Era.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The High Republic Era storytelling initiative was launched earlier this year in a series of novels and comics aimed at both adult and younger readers. <em>The Acolyte<\/em> would be the first live action story set in the timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>While no further story details have been released, in <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> lore an acolyte is usually a Sith who begins their training in the DarkSide of the Force under a Sith Lord.<\/p>\n<p>No further information as to when the show is scheduled to begin production has been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Casting has begun on the new STAR WARS series which will take place during the High Republic Era.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/08\/amandla-stenberg-disney-star-wars-acolyte\/\" title=\"Amandla Stenberg In Talks For Disney+&#8217;s STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10285],"tags":[751,260,11304],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv-news","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-star-wars","10":"tag-star-wars-the-acolyte"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49996"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=49996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}