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Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae will show us the way soon

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Quick SummaryThe Acolytewill reportedly arrive on Disney+ this coming summer.Set 50 years beforeThe Phantom Menace, it starsSquid Game’sLee Jung-jae as a Jedi Master and will run for eight episodes.

The Acolytewill reportedly arrive on Disney+ this coming summer.Set 50 years beforeThe Phantom Menace, it starsSquid Game’sLee Jung-jae as a Jedi Master and will run for eight episodes.

The Acolytewill reportedly arrive on Disney+ this coming summer.Set 50 years beforeThe Phantom Menace, it starsSquid Game’sLee Jung-jae as a Jedi Master and will run for eight episodes.

The Acolytewill reportedly arrive on Disney+ this coming summer.

Set 50 years beforeThe Phantom Menace, it starsSquid Game’sLee Jung-jae as a Jedi Master and will run for eight episodes.

The next bigStar Warsseries fromDisney+ is set to hit the streaming platform this summer, it is claimed.

Star Wars: The AcolytestarsSquid Game’sLee Jung-jae and is different to the majority of other shows released onDisney+so far – it doesn’t tie-in withThe Mandalorianand isn’t based in or around theClone Wars.

Instead, it is set 50 years beforeStar Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, so is essentially the prequel to the prequel trilogy. It follows a Jedi Padawan and her one-time Master as the uncover a series of “sinister crimes”.

Colliderreports that the show will debut in the summer months, although an exact date is yet to be revealed. It also writes that The Acolyte has ties to The High Republic, a trilogy of novels from three different authors – Charles Soule, Cavan Scott and Claudia Gray.

Is there a trailer for The Acolyte

A trailer ofStar Wars: The Acolytewas shown to a crowd attending the Star Wars Celebration convention last year but never fully released (nor surprisingly leaked). It’s thought that a new trailer is due soon, however, with the production in the latter stages.

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Hopefully, her talent will shine through on a series that many are looking toward with eager eyes – can thestreaming servicefinally repeat its Mandalorian success once more, but with something that isn’t just a connected spin-off?

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