Like all good stories, Leslye Headland’s The Acolyte also begins in a bar, or should we say cantina considering it is on the planet of Ueda, on a galaxy far, far away? So while everyone is quietly burbling about their business, a hooded person skulks in. Gosh, was that a baby Gungan (Jar Jar Binks is from the same species) behind the bar? The stranger asks about a Jedi master called Indara ( Carrie-Anne Moss ) and there she is, very calm and Zen, but one can sense the Force coiled within her. The stranger provokes her and even though reluctant to start a fight, Indara — a Force fu expert — is giving as good as she gets with gravity-defying kicks and swings.
The stranger, however, overpowers Indara and vanishes. Elsewhere, a meknek, or grease grubber, Osha (Amandla Stenberg), is working on spaceships with her droid Pip. In the capital of the galaxy — the beautiful, bejewelled city planet of Coruscant — senior Jedi master Vernestra Rwoh (Rebecca Henderson) discusses the attack on Indara with fellow Jedi master, Sol (Lee Jung-jae).
The assailant is identified as Osha, Sol’s former padwan. Sol and his padwan, Jecki Lon (Dafne Keen), and newly minted Jedi knight, Yord (Charlie Barnett), set out to find and bring Osha in for questioning. Following the death of a second Jedi master, Torbin (Dean-Charles Chapman), at a Jedi temple in Olega, Sol figures out that there is a connection between the deaths and what happened in Osha’s home planet of Brendok, 16 years ago.
Sol.