Star Wars: The Acolyte showrunner reveals who inspired her the side obscure in the Disney+ series. This is a powerful character from the best Star Wars game: KOTOR.
Star Wars: The Acolyte, Disney's bet
À 10 days before its release on Disney+, the next series Star Wars: The Acolyte intrigues as much as it worries. And for good reason, the latest projects linked to the galaxy far, far away did not shine. by their quality and their originality. Obi-Wan, The Book of Boba Fett, and to a lesser extent Ahsoka,have caused a certain weariness among the fans.
But by choosing to place his story within Set in the era of the High Republic, 100 before the prequel and exploring the extended universe of Star Wars, Disney and showrunner Leslye Headland are taking a worthy risk. Free ourselves from the legacy left behind by George Lucas is perhaps what an entirefanbasehas been waiting for.
This KOTOR character who inspired the sith
Headland has several times announced that the novels and comics were a great source of inspiration for the construction of the series. Particularly when it comes to evoking the side of the series. obscure. For example, she mentioned; the character of Darth Bane (became canon since his appearance in the sixth season of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars), who ultimately will not appear in season 1. It is ultimately another character who inspired him, who comes from the same character. him from the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II.
Even though we don't get into that particular story, there were certain things in Legends that I wanted to bring out because I felt like they were really interesting, not only for the storyline but for myself as a fan. I thought, 'Well, I'd love to do that.' The character of Dark Traya really inspired me”
In the 2005 title developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Obsidian Entertainment. by LucasArts,Darth Traya was a respected Jedi named Kreia who ultimately fell to the sword. towards the side dark.Headland did not specify what character this powerful woman inspired, but this choice once again underlines the showrunner's interest in the extended universe, and its will to draw from the huge treasure chest; Star Wars toys.
Headlan also explained why she chose this specific time period to tell her Star Wars story: “There were two reasons why I wanted to place it in this time period It was a very special and far from the prequels. Firstly, I didn't want to play with any canon. The other thing I liked about this period was the absence of legacy characters. ;s. I was too nervous to face them, but also, I have the impression that we saw a lot of them [La Haute Republique] seemed like a sandbox in which I could easily jump in live-action, you did not see the Sith in their best light, largely overwhelmed by the number of Jedi present in the universe. This seemed interesting to me. to explore that.”