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 identify for Star Wars tales written earlier than Disney purchased the franchise and put all the things beneath one massive canon. Although these tales are not thought-about to have “formally” occurred anymore, they’ve parts 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 an enormous 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 may briefly deflect a lightsaber. It’s the metallic the Stranger’s helmet is manufactured from and you may 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 may be extra to come back.
“It’s a tough factor since you respect George Lucas within the sense that you simply don’t need to weaken the facility of a lightsaber,” Headland stated. “It’s virtually hallowed in that sense, not simply throughout the collection, however in popular culture. However cortosis was such an awesome new aspect, and I had at all times considered it as such a cool factor to include. [Lucasfilm story group’s] Pablo Hidalgo and I labored lots on the machinations of it earlier than we began designing it. It was essential that it’s breakable, that it mainly not be tremendous arduous. 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 perhaps a minute. We labored actually arduous 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 lots about it. In order that’s the cortosis story, however the different Legends stuff we will discuss after the finale.”
The entire interview over at Inverse is incredible 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 frivolously. Then there’s that tease on the finish. Extra Legends to come back? Is there something specifically you’d prefer to see?
The Acolyte is streaming on Disney+ with a brand new episode coming Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET.
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