‘The Acolyte’ Full List of Writers Revealed by WGA

Majority writers are women, lots of black names too. Several writers chosen because they never watched Star Wars!

https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2023/11/the-acolyte-full-list-of-writers-revealed-by-wga.html

Here’s the breakdown:

Episode 1, written by showrunner Leslye Headland (who also directs it)
Episode 2, written by Jason Micallef and Charmaine DeGraté
Episode 3, written by Jasmyne Flournoy and Eileen Shim
Episode 4, written by Claire Klechel and
Episode 5, written by Kor Adana and Cameron Squires
Episode 6, written by Jason Micallef and Jocelyn Bioh
Episode 7, written by Charmaine DeGraté, Jen Richards, and Jasmyne Flournoy
Episode 8, written by Jason Micallef

Plenty of these names are news to us, so let’s try to break it down. Headland is obviously the captain of the ship; she created the series, is the showrunner and an executive producer, and also wrote/directed the pilot. Jason Micallef is also an executive producer; he doesn’t have any IMDb writing credits since his 2018-created show Heathers. He co-wrote two of the episodes and solely wrote the finale (which we know since this summer).

As far as the directors’ list, we’ll have to wait to be closer to release, but four names have come up so far: Headland (episode 1), Kogonada, Alex García López, and Hanelle M. Culpepper (episodes 6 and 8). The cast includes Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, Jodie Turner-Smith, Charlie Barnett, Dean-Charles Chapman, Dafne Keen, Manny Jacinto, Carrie-Anne Moss, and of course, Joonas Suotamo as a new Wookiee Jedi and Rebecca Henderson as fan-favorite Vernestra Rwoh (first introduced in the High Republic novels).