JOHN NOLTE: Disney Flop The Acolyte Cost Nearly Quarter of a Billion Dollars.
The Acolyte is — er, was; it’s already been canceled — the latest Disney+ Star Wars-raping streaming series. This one was all about how lesbian witches created everything or something.
Anyway, the groomers told us the eight-episode series cost only $180 million. But now, thanks to the fact the United Kingdom does not allow studios to fudge or hide their numbers, we know The Acolyte $231 million.
United Kingdom tax documents filed by the Walt Disney Company’s UK branch reveal that Lucasfilm and The Walt Disney Company spent over 172 million GBP (231 million USD) on the production of The Acolyte, a prequel series set in the Disney Star Wars universe.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, The Acolyte series creator Leslye Headland publicly claimed the show cost “180 million,” which was assumed by several to be stated in US dollars. It is evident that if Headland had knowledge of the series financials that she was more likely referring the the amount in Great British Pounds. Accounting for exchange rates at the time of this article, this means that The Acolyte cost almost $230 million US dollars.
That works out to about $29 million per episode.
Industrial Light and Magic certainly knows how to make spaceships explode in a spectacular fashion. But nobody sets money itself ablaze on the small and big screen like Kathleen Kennedy. Not to mention, nobody knows how to either permanently or temporarily derail the career aspirations of the actresses she casts:
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