The Acolyte’s Leslye Headland And Dave Filoni Discuss Star Wars Storytelling
Next week, The Acolyte will take Star Wars fans into an era that’s been previously unexplored in live-action. The Acolyte is set near the end of the High Republic, approximately 100 years before The Phantom Menace. But while the time frame is different, some Star Wars constants remain. In a newly posted video, The Acolyte’s creator Leslye Headland and Lucasfilm’s chief creative officer Dave Filoni spoke about some of the parallels between the story in the new show and what we’ve seen in the previous Star Wars tales.
“What I was interested in examining were the Sith,” said Headland in the video. “The Master-Apprentice dynamic. If the Apprentice is craving the Master’s power, then at some point, he must recruit his Apprentice to overthrow the Master. And that is the Acolyte.”
Filoni pointed out that many Star Wars villains, including Darth Vader, don’t see themselves as bad guys. That’s a theme that will come up in The Acolyte as well.