The Acolyte will introduce a new lightsaber that no one trusted

Leslye Headland, the creator of Star Wars: The Acolytewas willing to bring her idea to the small screen, and she got her team to listen to her in the end.

Star Wars: The Acolytethe new live action series based on the universe created by George Lucas for Disney Plus, will take us to a remote past, so distant that it will transport us 100 years before the events experienced in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).

In this new and remote era that had barely been explored outside of books and comics of the Star Wars Expanded Universethe High Republicwe will see things that have never appeared on screen before, like a peculiar purple lightsaber that will transform into a whip.

We had already seen several types of lightsabers, of many different colors, even with shapes as original as the one in Kylo Ren in the latest film trilogy Star Warsand now The Acolyte It will surprise us with a new, very malleable one, but it will not be the only one. Leslie Headlandthe creator of Star Wars: The Acolytehas another ace up his sleeve.

In a recent interview with the media Rotten TomatoesLeslye Headland has revealed that in Star Wars: The Acolyte We will see another lightsaber of which we still do not have images.

What will The Acolyte’s new lightsaber be like?

The lightsaber that transforms into a whip, which will be carried by Vernestra Rwohit has already been seen in some trailers of the series and, of course, it had been possible to read about it in the books of the Expanded Universe. But the new saber remains a mystery, which its creator found difficult to materialize on screen.

“When I took it to the props department They told me: You can’t do that, it’s not something that’s going to work.”. Leslye Headland was not “willing to resign” and she continued to insist that the new lightsaber was present in Star Wars: The Acolyte of Disney Plus: “These incredible artisans were able to make my dream come true.”