Lee Jung-Jae Joins Cast Of Disney+ Star Wars Acolyte

The cast for the upcoming Disney+ series,The Acolytehas been revealed, including Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give),Emmy AwardFrom creator, showrunner, and executive producer Leslye Headland (Russian Doll),The Acolytehas begun production in the U.K.The executive producers are Kathleen Kennedy, Simon Emanuel, Jeff F.King, and Jason Micallef.Rayne Roberts and Damian Anderson are producing.Headland will also direct the series pilot.The Acolyte is 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.A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.Source:StarWars.com

Varietyreports Lee Jung-Jae (Squid Game) has been cast opposite Amandla Stenberg in the upcoming Disney+ series,he Acolyte. The series, set a hundred years before the prequels, has Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland and Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give) as showrunners.

VarietyreportsAmandla Stenberg("Hunger Games", Dear Evan Hansen) is in talks to join the cast ofThe Acolyte, a Disney+ series fromLeslye Headland.

The Acolyte, which is slated to begin production in mid-2022, "will take place in the final days of the High Republic era ...and will focus on the emergence of secretive dark side powers."

Maybe it's on Hera or Sabine, both have enough to flesh out and at least Hera has been active in the background of the movies

just ran down her imdb page because I didn't recognize her name. I don't think I have seen anything she had been a part of so this is a wait and see. wondering if it could be a spin off of the mandalorian focusing on Ahsoka? she has had a big popularity spike with the last season of Clone Wars and being announced for season 2 of the Mandalorian