Star Wars: The Acolyte gets a release date

Star Wars fans have a reason to cheer as the prequel series Star Wars: The Acolyte gets a release date.

On Tuesday, the makers announced that the series will release on June 4, 2024.

The series is reportedly set a thousand years before the events of The Phantom Menace and will show the rise of the dark side of the force while the high republic was at the height of its power.

The mystery thriller is being developed by Lucasfilm to stream on Disney+ along with all the other Star Wars content. The series went on floors in the second half of 2022.

Apart from Dafne Keen, the cast of the series also includes Squid fame star Lee Jung-Jae, Amandla Stenberg, Manny Jacinto, Charlie Barnett, Rebecca Henderson, Dean Charles-Chapman, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Carrie-Anne Moss.