Disney Says Cost, Not Quality Concerns, Killed The Acolyte

The twelvemonth successful Star Wars was a shaky one, but amid each the astonishing big-screen announcements, the biggest earthquakes mightiness person emanated from Disney+ bid The Acolyte. The bid upended a batch of Star Wars‘ astir ingrained tenets, particularly astir the Jedi Order, and poked the feels of fans who person toxic ways of expressing themselves. Then, not agelong aft its play ended, the amusement was announced arsenic cancelled—a uncommon changeable of finality for Lucasfilm.

Speaking to Vulture successful a wide-ranging interrogation that besides touches connected Marvel’s streaming future, among different topics, Disney’s Alan Bergman acknowledged The Acolyte‘s achievements (it was a hit, remember?). But helium besides had a pragmatic mentation arsenic to wherefore it lone got 1 season. “As it relates to Acolyte, we were blessed with our performance, but it wasn’t wherever we needed it to beryllium fixed the outgo operation of that title, rather frankly, to spell and marque a play two,” Bergman said. “So that’s the crushed wherefore we didn’t bash that.”

As for Disney+’s existent Star Wars title, the precocious debuted Skeleton Crew, helium said it’s excessively aboriginal to spot what’ll beryllium next. “Skeleton Crew is successful process now, truthful we’ll see. We’ve seen immoderate maturation connected that. We’ll spot however that goes … the reviews person been fantabulous connected Skeleton Crew, truthful we’ll person to spot however that each plays retired arsenic it moves forward.”

That catches america up done 2024. But what astir adjacent year? “We person Andor play two, which we’re truly excited about. It is excellent. I’ve watched each the episodes, and it is simply a fantastic season,” Bergman said. He’s the boss, truthful it’s not similar he’s going to accidental thing different—but that is bully to hear, isn’t it?

There’s besides Dave Filoni’s 2nd play of Ahsoka, Bergman continued, and added, “We’re looking astatine a fig of further bid that are successful development. We’ll spot what we determine to do. As I said earlier, they person to beryllium great, and erstwhile we’re successful the presumption wherever we deliberation we person what we want, we’re going to determination forward. In presumption of the films, astatine this constituent we person Mandalorian, which is coming retired Memorial Day of ‘26, and we’ve got a fig of films that we are developing. When we’re ready, we’ll beryllium making announcements arsenic to what those are.”

The takeaway from that is that a batch of confirmed details astir Star Wars‘ aboriginal are inactive up successful the air—just the mode Star Wars seems to similar it.

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