Logan star Dafne Keen is becoming a member of the Star Wars universe with The Acolyte.
With manufacturing now underway, The Acolyte has added Dafne Keen, the breakout star of 2017’s Logan. Jeff Sneider and John Rocha broke the casting in the course of the newest episode of the Hot Mic podcast, with the previous revealing that Keen is “wrapping up a deal” to board the sequence.
Dafne Keen made her performing debut with the function of Ana “Ani” Cruz Oliver on the tv sequence The Refugees earlier than gaining widespread acclaim along with her work as X-23 in James Mangold’s X-Men spin-off Logan. She can at the moment be seen as Lyra Belacqua on the BBC One and HBO sequence His Dark Materials, an adaptation of the trilogy of novels of the identical title by Philip Pullman.
Amandla Stenberg is spearheading the solid of The Acolyte, which is ready to happen roughly a century earlier than the occasions of 2001’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Lee Jung-jae and Manny Jacinto are taking part in the 2 different lead characters of the sequence, with Jodie Turner-Smith on board in a supporting function.
The Acolyte is being developed by Leslye Headland, one of many creators of the hit Netflix sequence Russian Doll. The sequence doesn’t but have a premiere date for Disney Plus however a late 2023 or early 2024 launch is probably going provided that the mission is already filming.
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Source: The Hot Mic