After Disney acquired Lucasfilm, the choice was made that the “Star Wars” universe needed to begin over and, consequently, convert what was as soon as canon to “Legends” standing. Particulars like the subsequent era of Skywalkers have been swapped out with chest-thumping turncoats like Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), and even trivia tidbits as small as Plo Koon’s species, the Kel Dors, have been shelved and by no means expanded upon additional. Nevertheless, the showrunner of “The Acolyte” Leslye Headland instructed StarWars.com that there have been sections of Legends lore that she was transferring to her present, which could embrace Plo’s historical past. Headland instructed the location, “There’s additionally some EU lore that I made a decision to place in as a result of I assumed it was so cool, and nobody instructed me I could not.”
A part of this lore is that, whereas the Kel Dor has an analogous life expectancy to people, Plo Koon is an exception, provided that Legends lore has him dying on the ripe previous age of 385. With that in thoughts, there is no purpose the familiar-looking Jedi proven within the latest trailer could not be Plo Koon or one other Kel Dor solely. We’ll have to attend and see when “The Acolyte” fires up a wall rack filled with lightsabers on June 4, 2024.