The Acolyte: Last News

Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk has given some hopeful news for fans hoping for a date for the third season of the hit show, saying it will be coming “sooner than you’d expect”.Premiering in 2021, season one of Squid Game remains Netflix’s most watched series ever, becoming a worldwide hit and making an international star of Lee Jung-jae, who would go on to appear in Star Wars show The Acolyte.Season two debuted on December 26, to the biggest ever premiere for a show on the streaming service, with 68million viewers in the first four days.

Netflix hit Squid Game has gone viral after things didn’t go according to plan.At a subway station in Turkey, a group of actors dressed as the pink Soldiers from the show tried to board a train. While most of the participants made it onto the carriage, one Soldier was left behind as the train doors shut before they could walk through.READ MORE: ‘Squid Game’ season two records Netflix’s biggest ever opening figures for a debut seriesThe humorous footage was shared on X, with one user remarking that “one player was eliminated before the game even started”.

The Acolyte never made it to a second season.In August, reports first emerged that the sci-fi show was getting scrapped after just one season, partially due to low viewership numbers. Although it was well-received by critics (including NME), it was divisive to fans and resulted in a dire 18 per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.It didn’t help matters that the series was also effectively panned by fans before its release, with many slamming its trailer earlier in the year for “looking cheap”.Now, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment Alan Bergman has spoken to Vulture and said that while the company felt positively about how the first season performed, it wasn’t enough to justify a follow-up considering the hefty price tag.“We were happy with our performance, but it wasn’t where we needed it to be given the cost structure of that title, quite frankly, to go and make a season two,” he said.

The Acolyte star Jodie Turner-Smith has criticised Disney for not defending the show’s stars amid a racist backlash.The Star Wars series, which is set around 100 years before the prequel movies, premiered on Disney+ back in June – though was recently cancelled after one season.However, some of the show’s stars were subjected to racism amid its release, with Amandla Stenberg previously sharing a song in response to abuse she had received. The star later admitted that the series’ cancellation was “not a huge shock” for her, especially after the cast was targeted with a “rampage of vitriol”.Turner-Smith, who played Mother Aniseya – the leader of the coven of witches that raised Stenberg’s characters Osha and Mae – has claimed that Disney’s silence amid the racist backlash was “unfair”.“They’ve got to stop doing this thing where they don’t say anything when people are getting fucking dog-piled on the internet with racism and bullshit,” she told Glamour.

The Acolyte star Amandla Stenberg has shared her opinion on the Star Wars show’s cancellation after one season – see what she had to say below.Earlier this month, it was announced that The Acolyte was reportedly getting scrapped after just one season, partially due to low viewership numbers. The show was well-received by critics (including NME), but was divisive to fans and resulted in a dire 18 per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Now, series lead Stenberg has shared her thoughts on the cancellation in a series of Instagram Stories that run for over eight minutes.

Disney has reportedly cancelled the Star Wars series The Acolyte after just one season – find out more below.The Acolyte‘s cancellation is reportedly by Deadline, per undisclosed sources close to the project. A reason for the cancellation was not shared, and has not been officially announced by Disney, Lucasfilm or series creator and director Leslye Headland.The alleged cancellation isn’t entirely surprising, given its reception by Star Wars fans.

Star Wars: The Acolyte star Manny Jacinto has opened up about having his dialogue cut from Top Gun: Maverick.The actor was cast as LT Billy “Fritz” Avalone in the Tom Cruise-led sequel, but his lines were cut from the final edit and he only appeared in the background of a few short scenes.“It’s flattering that there was a little bit of an outcry, but it wasn’t shocking to me,” Jacinto told GQ magazine about being cut out of the film. “There was this sense of where the film was going [on set], like I can see them focusing the camera more on these [other] guys and not taking so much time on our scenes.”Top Gun: Maverick helped to propel the careers of Glen Powell and Miles Teller, but did little to boost Jacinto’s status.

The Acolyte is drawing to a close this week – but will there be a second season of the hit new Star Wars spin off?The show is set 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and episodes were released to streaming on Disney+ on June 4.The Acolyte has been created by Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland and it stars Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give, Bodies Bodies Bodies) in the twin lead roles of Osha and Mae. The two characters are raised by a coven of witches, led by Jodie Turner-Smith,and are separated by tragedy, with Osha training as a Jedi before lapsing, while Mae turns to the dark side.The show has received much critical acclaim, including NME in a a four-star review of the show. We said of the show: “As with everything in Star Wars, balance is everything – but it feels like Headland has managed to walk a finer line than most with The Acolyte.

The Acolyte star Amandla Stenberg has written and released a song in response to a racist backlash against the Star Wars prequel show.The show is set 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and the first four episodes are streaming now on Disney+.It was created by Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland and stars Stenberg (The Hate U Give, Bodies Bodies Bodies) in the twin lead roles of Osha and Mae.

Warning: Spoilers ahead Star Wars fans have been left reeling by the shock of a major name actor being killed off in the opening minutes of the new prequel series The Acolyte.The show is set 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and the first two episodes were released to streaming on Disney+ on June 4.The Acolyte has been created by Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland and it stars Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give, Bodies Bodies Bodies) in the twin lead roles of Osha and Mae. The two characters are raised by a coven of witches, led by Jodie Turner-Smith, and are separated by tragedy, with Osha training as a Jedi before lapsing, while Mae turns to the dark side.In the opening moments of the first episode, we see a mysterious woman enter a bar and kill the Jedi Master Indara, played by Carrie-Anne Moss.

Star Wars suffer more harassment “because of the fan base being so male dominated”.The franchise has long fielded misogynistic and racist comments from online trolls, with both Daisy Ridley and Kelly Marie Tran previously leaving social media as a result of the abuse.Now, ahead of the release of the new Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte, the same issue has repeated itself, with some fans referring to the show as “The Wokelyte” due its diverse cast.Created by Leslye Headland, The Acolyte is set long before the events of The Phantom Menace (1999) and charts the emergence of the Dark Side during the High Republic era.“Operating within these giant franchises now, with social media and the level of expectation — it’s terrifying,” Kennedy said, in a new interview with The New York Times.“I think Leslye has struggled a little bit with it. I think a lot of the women who step into Star Wars struggle with this a bit more.

 and portraying Anne Boleyn on AMC+, Jodie Turner-Smith is the latest performer to join the universe as one of the ensemble cast members of the upcoming series, . «I'm like, 'I'm in f**king ,'» the 36-year-old British actress told ET's Ash Crossan during the Celebration 2023 in London, England, relieved that she can finally talk about being a part of the Disney+ show. «Like, people kept asking me about it before… I'm like, 'No, I'm doing this amazing project with really great artists and a director I love and actors I'm obsessed with.'»And all those amazing people include creator and executive producer Leslye Headland as well co-stars Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Charlie Barnett, Rebecca Henderson, Dean-Charles Chapman, Carrie-Anne Moss, Margarita Levieva and Joonas Suotamo, all of whom are part of the new mystery-thriller set during the final days of the High Republic era.The series will follow a former Padawan as she reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes before discovering the forces they're confronting are more sinister than they anticipated. And after «operating in a little bubble,» Turner-Smith shared that she's so excited to be part of such a huge, lasting franchise.