Disney Says Cost, Not Positive Affect, Kills Acolyte

Year in Star Wars it was unstable, but among all the great news and surprises, the biggest earthquakes would have come from the Disney + series. The Acolyte. The drama added a lot Star Wars‘ the more grounded principles, especially of the Jedi Order, are confusing the minds of fans who have poisonous ways of expressing their opinions. Then, after a long time, his season was over. the show was announced as cancelled-a rare last straw for Lucasfilm.

Talking with Rain in a series of interviews that also touch on the future of Marvel, among other topics, Disney’s Alan Bergman admitted. The Acolyte‘s achievements (it was hittingdo you remember?). But he also had a pragmatic explanation for why it only got one season. “As it happens Acolytewe were happy with how we did, but it wasn’t what we needed to be given the price of the title, frankly, to go and do a second season,” Bergman said. “That’s why we didn’t do it.”

As for the current Disney + Star Wars title, newly released Skeleton Crewhe said it is still early to see what will happen. “Mask Employees it’s happening now, so we’ll see. We’ve seen some growth in that. We’ll see how it goes…the reviews have been great Skeleton Crewso we’ll see how everything goes as it progresses. “

This takes us to 2024. But what about next year? “We have Andor season two, which we are excited about. That’s great. I’ve seen all the episodes, and it’s a great season,” said Bergman. He’s the boss, so it’s not like he’s going to say anything different—but it’s good to hear, right?

There is also a second season of Dave Filoni AhsokaBergman continued, and added, “We are looking at a list of additional products that are growing. We will see what we decide to do. As I said before, they must be big, and when we are in a place where we think we have what we want, we will move forward. In terms of films , we currently have them The Mandalorianwhich is coming out Memorial Day ’26, and we have several films in the works. When we’re ready, we’ll be announcing who they are.

What comes out of that is a lot of concrete details Star Wars‘ The future is still up in the air – it is Star Wars seems like I like it.

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