The Acolyte Season 2: Showrunner Says Story Has ‘Room to Grow’

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The Acolyte Season 2: Showrunner Says Story Has ‘Room to Grow’

The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland has revealed that a Season 2 could be possible for the upcoming Star Wars series.

In an interview with IGN, the showrunner explained that The Acolyte’s first season could introduce story threads and ideas that might continue on in further seasons or in other Star Wars projects, though she was primarily focused on ensuring the first season was a whole story.

“I think there’s absolutely room for it to grow,” Headland stated. “I think that especially nowadays … I’m just the kind of person where I want to make sure a season feels like a legitimately whole story, and I definitely pepper in a lot of like, ‘Here’s how it could go this way, it could go that way.’

“I also don’t want to leave the audience hanging emotionally. I want to leave them hanging narratively but emotionally I want them to feel like they’ve watched a whole thing, and then still have a bunch of questions at the end like, ‘Wait, now that I’ve learned this relationship exists, what’s going to happen with those people, and now that this person has this type of power, what are we going to do about that?’ So I think it can definitely have some of that.”

Who wrote The Acolyte?

Star Wars: The Acolyte is written and executive produced by Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), who also serves as the showrunner. Joining Amandla Stenberg Stenberg are Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game), Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials), Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna), Dean-Charles Chapman (1917), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Jodie Turner-Smith (After Yang), Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll), and Star Wars sequel trilogy alum Joonas Suotama as a new character in the form of a Wookiee Jedi master.