Disney Says Value, Not High quality Issues, Killed The Acolyte

The year in Star Wars was a shaky one, however amid all of the stunning big-screen bulletins, the largest earthquakes may need emanated from Disney+ collection The Acolyte. The collection upended a whole lot of Star Wars‘ most ingrained tenets, particularly in regards to the Jedi Order, and poked the feels of followers who have toxic ways of expressing themselves. Then, not lengthy after its season ended, the show was announced as cancelled—a uncommon stroke of finality for Lucasfilm.

Talking to Vulture in a wide-ranging interview that additionally touches on Marvel’s streaming future, amongst different matters, Disney’s Alan Bergman acknowledged The Acolyte‘s achievements (it was a hit, keep in mind?). However he additionally had a practical rationalization as to why it solely bought one season. “Because it pertains to Acolyte, we have been pleased with our efficiency, but it surely wasn’t the place we wanted it to be given the price construction of that title, fairly frankly, to go and make a season two,” Bergman mentioned. “In order that’s the explanation why we didn’t try this.”

As for Disney+’s present Star Wars title, the just lately debuted Skeleton Crew, he mentioned it’s too early to see what’ll be subsequent. “Skeleton Crew is in course of now, so we’ll see. We’ve seen some development on that. We’ll see how that goes … the critiques have been glorious on Skeleton Crew, so we’ll need to see how that each one performs out because it strikes ahead.”

That catches us up by way of 2024. However what about subsequent yr? “Now we have Andor season two, which we’re actually enthusiastic about. It’s glorious. I’ve watched all of the episodes, and it’s a unbelievable season,” Bergman mentioned. He’s the boss, so it’s not like he’s going to say something completely different—however that’s good to listen to, isn’t it?

There’s additionally Dave Filoni’s second season of Ahsoka, Bergman continued, and added, “We’re quite a lot of further collection which are in growth. We’ll see what we determine to do. As I mentioned earlier, they need to be nice, and once we’re within the place the place we expect we’ve what we wish, we’re going to maneuver ahead. By way of the movies, at this level we’ve Mandalorian, which is popping out Memorial Day of ‘26, and we’ve bought quite a lot of movies that we’re growing. Once we’re prepared, we’ll be making bulletins as to what these are.”

The takeaway from that’s that a whole lot of confirmed particulars about Star Wars‘ future are nonetheless up within the air—simply the way in which Star Wars appears to love it.

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