The newest Star Wars Acolyte trailer seems to reveal the show’s big bad

Disney’s newest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, is conscionable a period distant connected Disney Plus, and nan newest trailer for it hints that nan show will propulsion connected a thread that Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi tugged connected backmost successful 2017: Is nan Jedi bid really each that good?

Set good earlier nan events of nan Star Wars prequel trilogy, The Acolyte sees High Republic-era Jedi maestro Sol (Lee Jung-jae) investigating a drawstring of murders (which see astatine slightest 1 Jedi). Today’s trailer reveals that nan mysterious black-clad Mae (Amandla Stenberg), is simply a erstwhile student of his, and it seems for illustration she’s astir apt a fishy successful nan murders. It besides reinforces nan thought that this will beryllium a peculiarly grim series.

It besides introduces a zipper-faced villain whose reddish lightsaber sparks to life successful a foggy jungle, apparently conscionable earlier a conflict pinch Sol. It’s a enigma who’s wearing nan scarred-up helmet, which bears much than a small resemblance to Kylo Ren’s successful nan astir caller Star Wars trilogy. Maybe it’s nan series’ large bad, aliases possibly it’s conscionable a spooky dream Sol is having. Or Perhaps Disney is preparing to show america nan “Tragedy of Darth Plagueis nan Wise” Sith fable that Emperor Palpatine regaled Anakin Skywalker pinch successful Star Wars Episode III.

One thing’s for sure: Whoever this villain is, they support up nan agelong contented of nan Sith (assuming that’s what they are) making nan Jedi look for illustration full dorks. The Acolyte’s stars see Carrie-Anne Moss, Rebecca Henderson, Dean-Charles Chapman, and Joonas Suotamo, and it will premiere June 4th pinch 2 episodes connected Disney Plus.