The showrunner behind Disney+’s latest Star Wars series, The Acolyte, has reiterated her interest in creating a live-action TV show based on the wonderful 2003 video game, Knights of the Old Republic. Yes. Do that.
Do that very now. Leslye Headland, The Acolyte’s creator and showrunner, spoke to the superbly named Brazilian site Omelete about her passion for BioWare’s all-time classic RPG, and her desire to see it interpreted for the screen. As translated by IGN , the writer explained that she’s especially intrigued to delve into KotOR 2’s blind, Force-neutral character, Kreia.
“I think,” she told the site, “it would be a really interesting story to bring to life.” Read More: With The Acolyte, Lucasfilm Is Done Staying Silent About Bigoted Reactions To Star Wars As a Star Wars agnostic, I find my patience for the multiple deep-lore series that keep manifesting on Disney+ to be frequently tested. Despite loving Rosario Dawson with all my heart, I couldn’t stick through Ahsoka, and I didn’t get past the first episode of Boba Fett.
But I’ve loved The Mandalorian, and thoroughly enjoyed the first two episodes of The Acolyte when I watched them last night. It’s a top show, and being set a couple hundred years before the movies, doesn’t feel bogged down in almost 50 years of baggage. Boggage? It’s perhaps for similar reasons that my absolute favourite thing to have ever come from the Star Wars universe is BioWare’s 21-year-old RPG, Knights of the Old.