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Release Date

2024 - 2024-00-00

Showrunner

Leslye Headland

Directors

Leslye Headland, Alex Garcia Lopez

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WHERE TO WATCH

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The Acolyte is a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era. A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.

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