With three episodes left within the first season of The Acolyte, present creator Leslye Headland admits she isn’t fairly achieved incorporating items of old-school Star Wars mythology from the Expanded Universe, aka Legends.
Legends, after all, is the title for Star Wars tales written earlier than Disney purchased the franchise and put every part underneath one massive canon. Although these tales are now not thought of to have “formally” occurred anymore, they’ve components some creators are slowly bringing over into the canon. One latest occasion: Grand Admiral Thrawn from Inheritor to the Empire showing on Ahsoka.
That is occurring on The Acolyte too and a giant instance got here within the fifth episode of the show, “Night.” The episode launched a metallic known as cortosis, a specialized ore that originated within the 1998 novel I, Jedi by Michael Stackpole and might briefly deflect a lightsaber. It’s the metallic the Stranger’s helmet is manufactured from and you’ll read much, much more cortosis and its history here. Speaking to Inverse, Headland defined why canonizing cortosis in The Acolyte was not taken calmly, and hints there may be extra to come back.
“It’s a difficult factor since you respect George Lucas within the sense that you simply don’t wish to weaken the facility of a lightsaber,” Headland mentioned. “It’s nearly hallowed in that sense, not simply throughout the sequence, however in popular culture. However cortosis was such an amazing new factor, and I had at all times considered it as such a cool factor to include. [Lucasfilm story group’s] Pablo Hidalgo and I labored rather a lot on the machinations of it earlier than we began designing it. It was essential that it’s breakable, that it mainly not be tremendous onerous. It’s why Jecki can get the helmet off him so rapidly. It’s sort of a brittle factor. There’s additionally a restricted useful resource of it, which is why he doesn’t have an entire go well with of armor, and it solely works for perhaps a minute. We labored actually onerous on what it might appear like, as a result of we didn’t need it to look too highly effective or too goofy. Pablo, [visual artist] Rob Bredow, and I talked rather a lot about it. In order that’s the cortosis story, however the different Legends stuff we are able to speak about after the finale.”
The entire interview over at Inverse is improbable and price studying however this reply stood out for a number of causes. First, you possibly can simply inform how respectful Headland is to Star Wars mythology right here. She thinks about it, she considers it, and she or he doesn’t decide calmly. Then there’s that tease on the finish. Extra Legends to come back? Is there something specifically you’d wish to see?
The Acolyte is streaming on Disney+ with a brand new episode coming Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET.
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