By With “Star Wars: The Acolyte” having wrapped up, the show does not yet have a renewal order.
That’s not unusual, as Disney is likely taking its time to see the full season’s numbers before making a decision. Lucasfilm didn’t officially renew last year’s “Ahsoka” series until several months after it aired, so it’s not unusual.
Speaking with EW this weekend, creator Leslye Headland was asked if she had heard anything in terms of a second season being greenlit. She says: “Nothing” and proceeded to make a zero sign with her hands.
She added that he doesn’t mind it as she’s still decompressing from launching the first season:
“You have to take a break. Especially after something like this. I don’t even know how many years my brain has been going, Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars, Acolyte, Acolyte, Acolyte – just constantly solving problems, constantly thinking about it.
It is very weird to now be in a place where I don’t need to do that. I always say to budding writers, ‘The most important thing that you can do is sit around and do nothing. Because the second you start to manufacture a story, you’re going to get stressed out, and the story can’t start that way.’”
One thing she will tease is that the second season will likely see more of the Republic Senate after David Harewood’s sceptical Senator Rayencourt played a key part in the finale:
“A generation or two generations have gone by since the Nihil. There was a lot of drama, so it was just logical to me that there would be more of this button-down [idea]: ‘We’re trying to avoid the mistake. Let’s limit the power. Let’s do that before someone asks us to.’ And it was just logical to me to show Vernestra as the bridge for that.”
The finale also revealed the connection between Vernestra and Qimir, and Headland says if they continue we’ll “see more of Vern’s history with the Stranger and how that’s affecting the decisions she’s making now.”
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