Leslye Headland, director of the new “Star Wars” show “The Acolyte,” said she wanted to “challenge” the story about good guys vs villains, and said hers is a story about “power.”
Speaking to IGN about the upcoming Disney+ series “Star Wars: The Acolyte,” Headland said her Sith-focused series is very different from what fans have seen in shows like “The Mandalorian” and “Andor.”
Headland said her new “Star Wars” series looks “at the Jedi as an institution, as a concept, as an entity that has amassed a lot of power. And that’s good, I’m not saying that’s wrong.”
“But I do think that when Jodie Turner-Smith has that line at the end of the trailer, when she says, ‘It’s not about good or bad, this is about power and who’s allowed to use it,’ really I think that’s the question we’re asking,” she added. “That’s really the question….
