With three episodes left within the first season of The Acolyte, present creator Leslye Headland admits she isn’t fairly finished incorporating items of old-school Star Wars mythology from the Expanded Universe, aka Legends.
Legends, in fact, is the title for Star Wars tales written earlier than Disney purchased the franchise and put all the pieces below one large canon. Although these tales are now not thought of 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 a giant instance got here within the fifth episode of the show, “Night.” The episode launched a steel known as cortosis, a specialized ore that originated within the 1998 novel I, Jedi by Michael Stackpole and might briefly deflect a lightsaber. It’s the steel the Stranger’s helmet is product of 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 flippantly, and hints there’s extra to come back.
“It’s a difficult factor since you respect George Lucas within the sense that you simply don’t need to weaken the ability of a lightsaber,” Headland mentioned. “It’s nearly hallowed in that sense, not simply throughout the collection, however in popular culture. However cortosis was such an important new ingredient, and I had all the time considered it as such a cool factor to include. [Lucasfilm story group’s] Pablo Hidalgo and I labored rather a lot on the machinations of it earlier than we began designing it. It was essential that or not it’s breakable, that it mainly not be tremendous exhausting. 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 an entire go well with of armor, and it solely works for perhaps a minute. We labored actually exhausting on what it might 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 rather a lot 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 improbable and price studying however this reply stood out for just a few causes. First, you’ll be able to simply inform how respectful Headland is to Star Wars mythology right here. She thinks about it, she considers it, and he or she doesn’t decide flippantly. Then there’s that tease on the finish. Extra Legends to come back? Is there something particularly 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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