According to ComicBook, after its first season Star Wars: The Acolyte will not be moving forward with second season at Disney+. New trade reports suggested that Lucasfilm isn’t progressing with a second season. This shocking news comes after the series had a positive 78-percent Certified Fresh rating with critics, Rotten Tomatoes’ Audience Meter for the show was a 18-percent Rotten when it premiered on June 4th.
Star Wars: The Acolyte follows a former Padawan as they reunite with their Jedi Master to investigate a vast amount of crimes that have been happening during the dark and final days of the High Republic Era.
Cast for the series includes Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give), Lee Jung-jae (Squid Games), Manny Jacinto (I Want You Back), Dafne Keen (Logan), Charlie Barnett (Threshold), Jodie Turner-Smith (Anne Bolyn), Rebecca Henderson (Westworld), Dean-Charles Chapman (1917), Joonas Suotamo (Willow) and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix). Head writer Leslye Headland (Sleeping with Other People, Russian Doll) was very straightforward earlier this year when asked if she’d heard anything about a second installment for the show.
As per ComicBook, when asked if there would be another season for the series Headland said “Nothing. You have to take a break.”
She continued. “Especially after something like this. I don’t even know how many years my brain has been going, Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars, Acolyte, Acolyte, Acolyte – just constantly solving problems, constantly thinking about it. It is very weird to now be in a place where I don’t need to do that. I always say to budding writers, ‘The most important thing that you can do is sit around and do nothing. Because the second you start to manufacture a story, you’re going to get stressed out and the story can’t start that way.'”
“My brain is still doing it,” she added with a laugh. “It’s almost like if you’re running, you can’t just stop, can’t shut off.”
Star Wars: The Acolyte is available to stream on Disney+.