Our first huge take a look at The Acolyte final month introduced with it the information that just one character from the Excessive Republic transmedia period would make the leap from books to live-action, with Rebecca Henderson taking up novel hero Vernestra Rwoh. However now we now have a greater image of how the present will use her… and look at the encroaching darkness.
Though The Acolyte is ready about 100 years earlier than the occasions of The Phantom Menace, we met Vernestra as one of many youngest Jedi Knights of the Order, having achieved the rank at simply 15, within the Excessive Republic novels set roughly one other 100 years earlier than that—which means that she’s seen so much in her time by the point we get to The Acolyte. And in that point, in accordance with showrunner Leslye Headland, Vernestra has “been by way of some shit.”
“As a result of she has been round for therefore lengthy, she has mainly met everybody that has come by way of the Temple,” Headland recently told Empire about Vernestra’s perspective in The Acolyte, earlier than including fairly a grim twist on that perspective besides. “[She’s] seen all of them die their pure deaths in the event that they’re dwelling a pure human life,” the showrunner continued. “She’s identified [Lee Jung-jae’s Jedi Master] Sol since he was a tiny little one.”
There are in fact just a few extra Jedi who’ve lived lengthy sufficient to see the age of the Excessive Republic—and with it, the Jedi’s apex—give option to the recalcitrance we see by the point of the prequel trilogy, like Yoda and Yarael Poof, who had been each members of the Jedi Council even in the course of the 200 12 months interval previous to the place we meet them in Phantom Menace. We don’t know the way for much longer Vernestra lives past The Acolyte (or if she even survives the first season)—Star Wars has at all times been fuzzy about Mirialan lifespans—nevertheless it’s nonetheless attention-grabbing to look at her gone the time she was thought-about a prodigy of the Order’s finest and brightest, to somebody who has seen a lot change, not simply in Jedi coming and going, however the myriad methods it begins to vary between the highs of her youth to the lows of the prequel period.
The Acolyte begins streaming on Disney+ June 4.
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