Michael Abels (Get Out, Us, Nope, The Burial, Landscape with Invisible Hand, See You Yesterday, Breaking) has been tapped to score Lucasfilm’s upcoming Disney+ original series The Acolyte. The show is created by Leslye Headland (Russian Doll) and stars Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, Manny Jacinto, Jodie Turner-Smith, Dafne Keen, Rebecca Henderson, Dean-Charles Chapman, Charlie Barnett and Carrie-Anne Moss. The drama is set in the final days of the High Republic era and tells the story of a former Padawan who reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated. Headland is also executive producing the project with Kathleen Kennedy (Jurassic Park, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial), Simon Emanuel (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny), Jeff F. King (The Umbrella Academy, Blindspot) and Jason Micallef (Heathers, Butter). The Acolyte will premiere this year on Disney+.
Abels’s other recent projects include Kobi Libbi’s The American Society of Magical Negroes, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will be released in theaters on March 15 by Focus Features.
