The Success Of Squid Game Makes Lee Jung Jae The Leading Actor In The Star Wars Series
Lee Jung Jae. (Instagram/@from_jjlee)

JAKARTA - The star of Squid Game, Lee Jung Jae is ready to play the male lead in the Disney+ Star Wars series, The Acolyte. Leslye Headland, known as ko-creator Russion Doll, will be the showrunner of this series.

In addition, Amanda Stenberg (The Hate U Give) is lined up to become the female lead. The Acolyte takes a century backdrop before the Star Wars: Episode I - The spending.

Quoted from Variety, Friday, September 9, the series promises to describe the galaxy at the height of the High Republic era, whenter is in their strongest position and Sith is believed to have been culled from the galaxy.

Lee's addition to The Acolyte series marked his first major role after Squid Game, a Netflix hit drama that introduced him to a global audience.

Monday, September 11, Lee and the Squid Game team will attend Emmys as nominees in the first non-English language series to appear for a top drama.

Headland will depict The Acolyte inspired by Star Wars: The High Republic. Announced in February 2020 and launched throughout 2021, the High Republic series includes comic books, audio dramas, web series, and novels.

"We see political, personal and spiritual things that arise in a period of time that we don't know much about," said Headland in May 2022.

"My question when watching Thehat Menace is always like, 'Well, how did these things get to this point?' How did we get to the point where a Sith ruler could infiltrate the Senate and no chance of finding out? Like, what went wrong? What scenario led us to this moment?," he continued.


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