The first trailer for the highly-anticipated Star Wars series The Acolyte has finally arrived ahead of its premiere this summer.
It is the first major Star Wars project that is set in the High Republic era of the galaxy as the events take place around 100 years before The Phantom Menace.
The series is described as "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."
Yesterday, Lucasfilm officially announced that the series will premiere on Disney+ on June 4 and unveiled the first poster that features a bloodied lightsaber with the quote "An age of light, a darkness rises".
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The Acolyte Releases First Official Trailer
The trailer starts with Lee Jung-jae's Jedi character Sol teaching a class of younglings in a Jedi temple while a masked warrior figure (played by Amandla Stenberg) confronts a Jedi Knight (played by Carrie-Anne Moss).
The rest of the preview showed various glimpses of lightsaber-filled action sequences with an emerging conflict brewing and threatening the existence of the Jedi in the High Republic era.
Despite being set in unfamiliar territory in the Star Wars galaxy, it still has a lot of familiar undertones that the franchise is known for as evidenced by the quick glimpses of lightsaber action and usages of the Force.
The end of the trailer revealed that the series will premiere with two episodes when it arrives on Disney+ this June.
Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland serves as the showrunner of the series. The ensemble also includes Rebecca Henderson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Dean-Charles Chapman, Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, and more.
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