When does ‘The Acolyte’ come out on Disney+? New Star Wars show’s release date, episode guide, and more (2024)

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When does ‘The Acolyte’ come out on Disney+? New Star Wars show’s release date, episode guide, and more? ›

Here's your handy dandy guide to when each and every episode of Disney+'s new Star Wars show, The Acolyte, will premiere: The Acolyte Episode 1: Tuesday, June 4. The Acolyte Episode 2: Tuesday, June 4. The Acolyte Episode 3: Tuesday, June 11.

While it certainly seems like the show is on the verge of ending near the conclusion of episode 5, the series actually has a total of eight episodes. [Ed. note: The rest of this post contains slight spoilers for Star Wars: The Acolyte.]

The first two episodes debuted on June 4, and will be followed by weekly episodes (Tuesdays) through July 16. Here's the full release schedule for The Acolyte: Episode 1 – June 4 - Read our Series Premiere Review.

Not officially, no—Disney+ has neither confirmed nor denied the show will continue. Showrunner Leslye Headland may have hinted at the existence of a second season when she revealed that a major plot point—the Sith Lord—had been reserved for season 2 but the actor's screentest was so good, they fast-tracked it.

This detail also checks out with what Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland has said about cameos in the series in general: “We are pulling characters from the High Republic and characters from EU but that's it,” she said in an interview with ComicBook.com. “No, there is not [a Yoda cameo].”

Jacinto plays a happy-go-lucky, drunken apothecary named Qimir, who—as we learn in Episode 5—also turns out to be Mae's master and a fearsome Jedi-slaughtering warrior (and maybe a Sith Lord?).

One character we know will not be even mentioned in season 1 is Darth Bane, who is now, in canon, the establisher of the Rule of Two. Headland said that she tried to introduce a brief reference to him in The Acolyte but it didn't work: “I really toyed with utilizing Darth Bane or mentioning Bane.

The age rating for Star Wars: The Acolyte is TV-14 in the US and 12+ in the UK. According to the Amazon-owned IMDb, Star Wars: The Acolyte carries warnings for 'Sex & Nudity,' 'Violence & Gore,' 'Profanity,' 'Frightening & Intense Scenes, and 'Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking. '

Not only is the series set in a galaxy far, far away, but The Acolyte takes place at a time long, long ago. It predates the events of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace by a century. That's long before Anakin Skywalker was born, and in an era where numerous Jedi were around.

Miikka Leskinen was one of the series' editors. Headland said additional dialogue recording (ADR) work could not be completed during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike which delayed the end of post-production, but the series was mostly done by March 2024.

Will The Acolyte be dark? ›

“The Acolyte” is a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era.

Last episode confirmed it's in 132 BBY. "Lost/Found" Episode Guide | The Acolyte on StarWars.com (backup link) states that the events of The Acolyte take place 100 years before the events of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 32 BBY.

This is set a century before the events of the Skywalker saga, meaning Yoda should still be heavily involved with the Jedi Council at this time. Yoda would be 764 years old in The Acolyte.

Din Grogu (/ˈɡroʊɡu/), colloquially referred to as Baby Yoda, is a character from the Star Wars Disney+ original television series The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. He is a toddler member of the same species as the Star Wars characters Yoda and Yaddle, with whom he shares a strong ability in the Force.

Dagobah was a remote, unexplored planet in the Dagobah system, and one of the purest places in the galaxy within the Force. A remote world of swamps and forests, it served as a refuge for Jedi Grand Master Yoda during his exile after the destruction of the Jedi Order.

In “Teach/Corrupt,” Mae is disguised as Osha and angling to get closer to Sol on his ship, while her sister is stuck with Qimir on a forbidding island on an unknown planet.

The age rating for Star Wars: The Acolyte is TV-14 in the US and 12+ in the UK. According to the Amazon-owned IMDb, Star Wars: The Acolyte carries warnings for 'Sex & Nudity,' 'Violence & Gore,' 'Profanity,' 'Frightening & Intense Scenes, and 'Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking. '

Following the opening double-header and subsequent releases, the sixth episode in the series will arrive on Disney Plus on Tuesday 2nd July 2024 in the US – although it's worth noting that UK viewers won't be able to watch it until 2am on Wednesday 3rd July 2024.