The Acolyte: After the cancellation, Disney takes this heavy decision

Times are tough for Lucasfilm. While the company headed by Kathleen Kennedy was forced to cancel the series The Acolyte after its first season, Disney has just made a big decision. We tell you everything!

Disney wants to end The Acolyte

Purchased by Disney in 2012 for $4 billion, the Lucasfilm company is not as flourishing as the big-eared group had initially hoped. While the Star Wars brand is obviously still lucrative, in the sense that it generates a lot of money, Lucasfilm seems to have trouble fully taking advantage of its aura. Because, despite some great successes, such as the film Rogue One: a Star Wars story, its series The Mandalorian and Andor, as well as the animated series directed by Dave Filoni, Lucasfilm and Disney have often faced the wrath of fans and critics, as was the case with the Star Wars post-logy and the series The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka, and The Acolyte.

Worse still: Lucasfilm is unable to exploit its other licenses. The series Willow, released on Disney+ in 2022, was such a failure that Disney+ simply removed it from its catalog. As for the film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the first film in the saga in 15 years, failed to recoup its staggering budget. While Disney is planning to make up for it with the video game Indiana Jones and the Ancient Circle, whose promising trailer was released this week, the cancellation the same week of the series Star Wars: The Acolyte after just one season is a harbinger of the fall of Rome.

The cancellation of The Acolyteis not insignificant; the latest live-action series in the Star Wars universe was supposed to show the potential of the transmedia project around the High Republic, a period never explored in cinema or on television. To confirm the end of The Acolyte, Disney has made the difficult decision to remove from its stores the derivative products related to the series. A choice that is all the more radical since some failures can be mitigated by merchandising. Disney has drawn a definitive line under the series created by Leslye Headland, after having ordered two novels related to this universe.