With three episodes left within the first season of The Acolyte, present creator Leslye Headland admits she isn’t fairly finished 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 the whole lot beneath one huge 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 steel referred to as cortosis, a specialized ore that originated within the 1998 novel I, Jedi by Michael Stackpole and may briefly deflect a lightsaber. It’s the steel 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 frivolously, and hints there’s extra to come back.
“It’s a difficult factor since you respect George Lucas within the sense that you simply don’t need to weaken the facility of a lightsaber,” Headland mentioned. “It’s virtually hallowed in that sense, not simply inside the sequence, however in popular culture. However cortosis was such a terrific new ingredient, and I had all the time considered it as such a cool factor to include. [Lucasfilm story group’s] Pablo Hidalgo and I labored quite a bit on the machinations of it earlier than we began designing it. It was essential that it’s breakable, that it mainly not be tremendous laborious. It’s why Jecki can get the helmet off him so shortly. It’s type of a brittle factor. There’s additionally a restricted useful resource of it, which is why he doesn’t have a complete go well with of armor, and it solely works for possibly a minute. We labored actually laborious on what it will appear to be, 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 quite a bit about it. In order that’s the cortosis story, however the different Legends stuff we will speak about after the finale.”
The entire interview over at Inverse is improbable and price studying however this reply stood out for just a few causes. First, you may simply inform how respectful Headland is to Star Wars mythology right here. She thinks about it, she considers it, and he or she doesn’t decide frivolously. Then there’s that tease on the finish. Extra Legends to come back? Is there something particularly 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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