The Acolyte Will Incorporate More Star Wars Legends

With three episodes left successful the archetypal play of The Acolyte, amusement creator Leslye Headland admits she isn’t rather done incorporating pieces of old-school Star Wars mythology from the Expanded Universe, aka Legends.

Legends, of course, is the sanction for Star Wars stories written earlier Disney bought the franchise and enactment everything nether 1 large canon. Though these stories are nary longer considered to person “officially” happened anymore, they person elements immoderate creators are dilatory bringing implicit into the canon. One caller instance: Grand Admiral Thrawn from Heir to the Empire appearing connected Ahsoka.

This is happening connected The Acolyte excessively and a large illustration came successful the fifth occurrence of the show, “Night.” The occurrence introduced a metallic called cortosis, a specialized ore that originated successful the 1998 caller I, Jedi by Michael Stackpole and tin concisely deflect a lightsaber. It’s the metallic the Stranger’s helmet is made of and you tin read much, overmuch much cortosis and its past here. Speaking to Inverse, Headland explained wherefore canonizing cortosis successful The Acolyte was not taken lightly, and hints determination is much to come.

“It’s a tricky happening due to the fact that you respect George Lucas successful the consciousness that you don’t privation to weaken the powerfulness of a lightsaber,” Headland said. “It’s astir hallowed successful that sense, not conscionable wrong the series, but successful popular culture. But cortosis was specified a large caller element, and I had ever thought of it arsenic specified a chill happening to incorporate. [Lucasfilm communicative group’s] Pablo Hidalgo and I worked a batch connected the machinations of it earlier we started designing it. It was precise important that it beryllium breakable, that it fundamentally not beryllium ace hard. It’s wherefore Jecki tin get the helmet disconnected him truthful quickly. It’s benignant of a brittle thing. There’s besides a constricted assets of it, which is wherefore helium doesn’t person a full suit of armor, and it lone works for possibly a minute. We worked truly hard connected what it would look like, due to the fact that we didn’t privation it to look excessively almighty oregon excessively goofy. Pablo, [visual artist] Rob Bredow, and I talked a batch astir it. So that’s the cortosis story, but the different Legends worldly we tin speech astir aft the finale.”

The full interrogation implicit astatine Inverse is fantastic and worthy speechmaking but this reply stood retired for a fewer reasons. First, you tin conscionable archer however respectful Headland is to Star Wars mythology here. She thinks astir it, she considers it, and she doesn’t marque a determination lightly. Then there’s that tease astatine the end. More Legends to come? Is determination thing successful peculiar you’d similar to see?

The Acolyte is streaming connected Disney+ with a caller occurrence coming Tuesday astatine 9 p.m. ET.

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