At Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023‘s Excessive Republic panel followers obtained one other sneak peak at forthcoming Disney+ sequence The Acolyte and a bonus shock – Vernestra Rwoh, one of many early characters from the novels, will make the leap to reside motion, performed by Canadian actor Rebecca Henderson. Lucasfilm Publishing Artistic Director Michael Siglain additionally went over the concluding elements of part II and disclosed the whole part III slate of novels for adults, YA, and center grade.
The Acolyte creator, showrunner, director and author Leslye Headland made a shock look instantly after the web livestream – which coated the publishing schedule – concluded and following a second screener of the teaser footage from Friday’s Lucasfilm Showcase talked extra concerning the Excessive Republic TV sequence, her love of studying Star Wars tie-in novels rising up, and that – regardless of the sequence being set very late within the Excessive Republic timeline – a extra mature Vernestra Rwoh will likely be part of the sequence, performed by Headland’s spouse Rebecca Henderson.
Vernestra Rwoh made her first look within the January 2021 center grade novel Star Wars: The Excessive Republic – A Check of Braveness by Justina Eire, a part of the primary part of Excessive Republic novels (set round 200 years earlier than the Phantom Menace film) and the primary Excessive Republic novel for the center grade market. Rwoh is a Mirialan Jedi Knight and really early in her profession within the novel. The reside motion model may have her portrayed as a lot older, far more skilled and – based on Headland – emblematic of the crossroads and journey on which the Jedi are travelling within the forthcoming sequence which is far nearer to the tip of the Excessive Republic period (which spans 300 years).
Headland additionally stated that The Acolyte will purpose to bridge the Excessive Republic period with the Fall of the Jedi period (i.e. the primary six episodes of the Skywalker Saga coated within the films) of the brand new Star Wars timeline.
For a publishing initiative that has solely been in existence barely two years, it has already accrued a robust fan following – one thing that was famous by the panel with its enthusiastic viewers already cosplaying their favorite characters and cheering each tease and announcement. With Lucasfilm Senior VP of Franchise Content material and Technique James Waugh saying the initiative’s success had given them “license” to maintain going, and that this was nonetheless solely the start.
The conclusion of Part II is named The Night time of Sorrow. Part III: Trials of the Jedi will kick off with George Mann’s The Eye of Darkness in November 2023. Part III takes place one 12 months after the autumn of Starlight Beacon in Claudia Grey’s The Fallen Star (2022) and is predicted to run by means of to Spring 2025 – a extra unfold out schedule that Waugh signifies is designed to provide new followers an opportunity to make amends for the story up to now.
The Excessive Republic covers a timeline that stretches 350 to 50 years previous to occasions in Episode I: The Phantom Menace and is outlined as when the Jedi Order was on the peak of its powers. It launched with Part I: Gentle of the Jedi in early 2021, adopted by Part II: Quest of the Jedi (set 150 years earlier than Part I) in fall 2022. It’s a multimedia initiative that features novels, comics, manga, audio dramas, quick and serialised fiction in Star Wars Insider journal. Younger Jedi Adventures, a kids’s animated cartoon, and The Acolyte live-action TV present, will see it increase to tv.
Star Wars: The Excessive Republic – Part III: Trials of the Jedi Novel Slate [Fall 2023 to Spring 2025]
ADULT
- The Eye of Darkness, by George Mann (Random Home Worlds), November 14, 2023
- Temptation of the Power, by Tessa Gratton (Random Home Worlds), Summer season 2024
- Trials of the Jedi, Charles Soule (Random Home Worlds), Spring 2025
YOUNG ADULT
- Defy the Storm, by Tessa Gratton & Justina Eire (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), March 12, 2024
- Tears of the Anonymous, George Mann (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), Fall 2024
- Into the Gentle, Claudia Grey (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), Spring 2025
MIDDLE GRADE
- Escape from Valo, by David José Older & Alyssa Wong (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), January 30, 2024
- Beware the Anonymous, by Zoraida Córdova (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), Spring 2024
- A Valiant Vow, by Justina Eire (Disney/Lucasfilm Press), Spring 2025
