Star Wars: The Acolyte Showrunner Confirms Plans to Reveal the Stranger's Connection to Kylo Ren in Future Seasons

The divisive Star Wars TV bid The Acolyte would person featured a transportation betwixt The Stranger and villain Kylo Ren had the amusement been fixed a Season 2 and not been cancelled, its showrunner has confirmed.

Creator and showrunner Leslye Headland, who is possibly champion known for her enactment arsenic a playwright, revealed that The Acolyte's cardinal villain, Qimir besides known arsenic The Stranger, would person gone connected to commencement The Knights of Ren, the cult the young Kylo Ren joined pursuing his departure from the Jedi. Indeed, The Acolyte would person confirmed The Stranger arsenic the archetypal Knight of Ren.

“It was successful the plan of the character, arsenic good arsenic knowing that we were going to present Darth Plagueis, who has to extremity up with Palpatine arsenic his apprentice," Headland wrote successful The Art of Star Wars: The Acolyte by Kristin Baver, arsenic reported by SFF Gazette.

"Following the Rule of Two - a precept that constricted the Sith to conscionable 2 astatine immoderate fixed time, a maestro and an apprentice - 1 mode to support it going is if the Stranger is the archetypal Knight of Ren, portion of a Sith-adjacent cult that we cognize yet survives."

The Knights of Ren are not Sith per se, arsenic Headland explains, but they besides align themselves overmuch much with the acheronian broadside of the Force than the airy the Jedi follow. Some of the Knights seemingly look with Kylo Ren successful The Rise of Skywalker, but the discourse surrounding them, who they truly are, and wherefore Ren is with them is ne'er decently explored.

Knowing each of this, immoderate fans volition undoubtedly beryllium wishing much of this could’ve been explored some successful further seasons of The Acolyte, and the task Adam Driver, who played Kylo Ren / Ben Solo, and manager Steven Soderbergh were trying to marque — The Hunt For Ben Solo — earlier Disney tossed it successful the trash.

Indeed, Star Wars proprietor Disney canceled The Acolyte aft Season 1, leaving a fig of crippled threads, main among them the melodramatic archetypal quality of Darth Plagueis successful live-action form, dangling, possibly ne'er to beryllium resolved.

Since the cancelation, a fig of actors who appeared successful The Acolyte person said they inactive anticipation for a Season 2. In December past year, Manny Jacinto, who played Qimir, said Darth Plagueis would person had a bigger relation successful further seasons of The Acolyte, but didn't uncover excessively overmuch due to the fact that "we could travel back."

Meanwhile, Sol histrion Lee Jung-Jae has said helium was "quite surprised" to perceive The Acolyte wouldn't get a 2nd season, which Headland was reasoning astir adjacent earlier Season 1 premiered. Others, including Amandla Stenberg, person said they weren't shocked by the cancellation, however. "I'm going to beryllium transparent and accidental that it's not a immense daze for me," she said. "I was successful the bubble of my ain reality, but for those who aren't alert there's been a rampage of vitriol that we've faced since the amusement was adjacent announced. When it was inactive conscionable a conception and nary 1 had adjacent seen it."

Here's the leafage from The Art of The Acolyte publication wherever Leslye reveals that The Stranger was expected to beryllium the archetypal Knight of Ren, successful HD quality.
This leafage and others were initially previewed astatine Celebration Japan and I conjecture nary 1 work them excessively cautiously lol pic.twitter.com/NxZMvXfU7T

Mother Aniseya histrion Jodie Turner-Smith raised this contented too, calling retired Disney for not doing capable for the formed who faced waves of racist slander online. "They’ve got to halt doing this happening wherever they don’t accidental thing erstwhile radical are getting f**king dog-piled connected the net with racism and bulls**t," she said. Jacinto is inactive anxious to make much of The Acolyte though, calling Season 2 his life's extremity not agelong aft its cancellation.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.