‘The Acolyte’ Takes the Spotlight in New Empire Magazine Cover
Empire Magazine revealed the cover for their upcoming June issue, which will hit stands next Thursday, and it’s an all-Acolyte edition. They also unveiled a subscriber-only issue, designed by Nada Maktari (see both covers below), as well as teased interviews with creator and showrunner Leslye Headland, lead actress Amandla Stenberg, as well as other cast members including Carrie-Anne Moss, Lee Jung-jae, Dafne Keen, Charlie Barnett, Joonas Suotamo, Rebecca Henderson, Manny Jacinto, and Jodie Turner-Smith.
It’s also worth noting that the main cover announces a new, career-spanning interview with Daisy Ridley. Empire likes to tease some of their magazine content online a few days prior to full issue release, but we don’t know yet if Daisy Ridley’s conversation will make its way onto their website. Stay tuned for that!
The Leslye Headland series premiered its first trailer in mid-March, but Lucasfilm is not stopping there with their all-killer, no-filler marketing push. Earlier this week, they dropped two new images via Entertainment Weekly showing Dafne Keen as Padawan Jecki Lon, and over the next week, we’ll be getting a lot of new interviews and pictures from the new series via Empire.
The Acolyte is set to start streaming on Disney Plus on June 4 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET / June 5 at 2am BST. A new look at the series is confirmed to be attached to screenings of The Phantom Menace during the May 3 weekend, and it’s a foregone conclusion that a second trailer will hit online shortly thereafter.
Check out a full breakdown of what we learned last month about The Acolyte here.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
