Leslye Headland's live-action "Star Wars" series "The Acolyte," which will air on Disney Plus later this year, is in talks to cast Amandla Stenberg.

The figure Stenberg will play is being kept under wraps, although in the "Star Wars" world, an acolyte is a Sith who has only recently begun their training under an experienced Sith Lord. Of course, this was before Sith Lord Darth Bane established the Rule of Two, which states that there can only be two Sith in existence at any given moment – one master and one apprentice.

According to Disney and Lucasfilm, "The Acolyte" will be set in the late days of the "Star Wars" timeline's High Republic era, and will focus on the formation of covert dark side troops. To put things in perspective, the High Republic era ended around 50 years before the events of "The Phantom Menace."