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SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Leslye Headland, the showrunner for The Acolyte, recently revealed a surprising source of inspiration for her work on the Star Wars show: Breaking Bad. Since The Acolyte is set during the High Republic era, about 100 years before the Skywalker saga, its place in the Star Wars timeline allowed it to break several of the franchise's molds.
"Not to compare myself at all to Vince Gilligan, but the cold open to Breaking Bad is one of the best cold opens ever. So whenever I sit down to write anything, I'm like, ‘Well, I won't be able to top that, but in my show, what's the version of that?’ And it felt like the best I could come up with was killing Carrie-Anne Moss. It was icing Trinity and just having everyone go, ‘I'm sorry.
Related Star Wars: The Acolyte Episode Guide - Cast Members, Biggest Takeaways & Easter Eggs Here's everything you need to follow along with Star Wars: The Acolyte, from references and trivia to main takeaways from each new episode. As far as shocking viewers and drawing them into a tantalizing story goes, Headland fully succeeded with the opening to The Acolyte. In just over seven minutes, she established Indara's skills as a Jedi, a mysterious connection between her and Mae, and killed off one of the show's most advertised characters. Everything about The Acolyte's opening scene screamed "this show is not what you think it is," just like Breaking Bad's did.
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