Star Wars show The Acolyte shares first-look trailer
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Star Wars has released a first-look trailer for its upcoming Disney+ series, The Acolyte.
Set 100 years before the events of The Phantom Menace, the prequel series will follow the final days of the High Republic as a former Jedi Padawan (Bodies Bodies Bodies' Amandla Stenberg) reunites with their Master (Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae) to investigate a series of crimes across the galaxy.
However, it's not long before the pair find themselves confronting forces more sinister than they ever anticipated.
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The trailer, released ahead of the show's June 4 release, opens with the Master telling a group of trainee Jedi: "Close your eyes. Your eyes can deceive you. We must not trust them."
The footage then cuts to Stenberg's masked warrior fighting with Carrie Ann Moss' character Jedi Master Indara, while another character informs us that "someone is killing Jedi".
Meanwhile, a tagline that emerges throughout the trailer reads: "In an age of light, a darkness rises".
It also features lots of lightsaber combat, which star Dafne Keen (who is playing a Jedi) previously revealed there would be more of rather than using guns.
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"There's a lack of guns, which personally as someone who loves fighting and stunts and stuff, I love," she said last year. "We have a lot of the sabers. Chris Cowan, Mark Ginther and Daren Nop have choreographed all of these wonderful, wonderful stunts in such a beautiful way – it's visually stunning."
Other cast members include Game of Thrones star Dean-Charles Chapman, Litvinenko's Margarita Levieva, The Good Place's Manny Jacinto, Anne Boleyn's Jodie Turner-Smith, Russian Doll's Charlie Barnett and Inventing Anna's Rebecca Henderson.
Star Wars: The Acolyte starts streaming on Disney+ on June 4. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the entire Skywalker Saga are available on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K now, as well as on Disney+.
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