Lucasfilm’s Star Wars collection The Acolyte has been canceled by Disney and there are not any plans to proceed the story. I’ve gotta say, I’m probably not stunned. The writing on that collection was not good and I discovered the story and character extremely uninteresting.
The choice to cancel the collection comes greater than a month after the eight-episode first season of the collection completed its run on Disney+. The collection got here from creator, director, govt producer, and showrunner Lesley Headland, who hoped to proceed the story.
Whereas The Acolyte was successful with some critics, with 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, it divided Star Wars followers, which was mirrored in its general viewership. Numerous Star Wars followers trashed the collection and issues obtained actually ugly there for a bit.
Regardless, the followers of the collection did attempt to push for a Season 2 with #RenewTheAcolyte, which trended on X for a bit. However, the assist wasn’t sturdy sufficient to make Disney wish to do it.
Whereas the collection began off extremely sturdy with 4.8M views in its first day on the streamer to rank as the largest collection premiere on Disney+ this 12 months. After 5 days, that rose to 11.1 million views.
However, the collection had a gradual fall, and The Acolyte couldn’t maintain the momentum. The season finale one clocked in 335M minutes in viewing, making it the bottom for a Star Wars collection finale.
Ultimately, Disney felt that it wasn’t price renewing the big-budget Star Wars collection, which price effectively above $100 million per season to make.
Supply: Deadline
