Star Wars: The Acolyte Casts Solo‘s Joonas Suotamo as Wookiee Jedi
Disney+’s Star Wars: The Acolyte series has announced one last, “big” cast addition.
As revealed on Friday morning at Star Wars Celebration in London, 6-foot-11 Joonas Suotamo — who previously played Chewbacca in Solo: A Star Wars Story as well as in the sequel trilogy — will play a Wookiee Jedi named Kelnacca in the upcoming TV series, which is on track for a 2024 release.
It was also confirmed that Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game), whose own casting was announced back in September, is playing a Jedi master in The Acolyte.
Described as a mystery thriller, The Acolyte is set about 100 years prior to Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, during the final days of the High Republic era, a time rife with “shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers.” Per the official logline, “A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.”
Previously announced cast members include Lee, Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Jodie Turner-Smith (The Last Ship), Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll), Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials), Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna), Carrie-Anne Moss (Marvel’s Jessica Jones) and Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones).
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I’ve been looking forward to the series for a while. I hope it delivers. The time they’re taking should help make it a strong show, so we’ll see.
I’m not the biggest Star Wars fan. I watch almost all the series but skip what doesn’t sound interesting to me but it’s getting really but it’s getting way too difficult for me to keep track of the in universe timeline of all the projects they are developing.
The shows help you stay on track.