While we have just had a new trailer for upcoming Star Wars series The Acolyte (below), we’re all wondering where Skeleton Crew is and when it’s coming out…
Well, wonder no more.
Set in the so-called Mandoverse, Skeleton Crew picks up – as far as I can make out – after The Mandalorian season 3 and sees a group of young children lost in an unexplored part of the galaxy and it has been liken to the 80s movies of Amblin in tone. Sounds great.
Director Jon Watts described the series as: “It’s about a group of kids that find a buried spaceship on their boring planet, accidentally turn it on, get blasted off into the galaxy, and it’s the story about them trying to find their way back home.”
Kerry Condon talks Star Wars and her role in upcoming series Skeleton Crew
With The Bad Batch ending this week past, Tales of the Empire dropping today – Happy Star Wars Day, everyone! – and The Acolyte hitting with its first two episodes on June 4th, it’s down to Skeleton Crew to cover the second half of the year with Star Wars content and it’s going to be a long wait after the end of The Acolyte, it seems the series is set to drop on Disney+ in December, meaning we’ll be spending time in the Star Wars galaxy over Christmas! Yes!
Oh, and the series will use stop-motion done by Phil Tippett, it will also have ‘old-fashioned matte paintings’ made by an ILM painter who came out of retirement for the series.
And if that’s not exciting enough, the show will be directed by a host of directors including Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’s TheDaniels and the MCU’s Spider-man director Jon Watts.
The series will be fronted by Jude Law who says his character is ‘contradictory’ and would like him to be the show’s Han Solo (he wishes!)
And that’s all we know at this stage… still, it coming out at Christmas is a massive win, especially if it really does feel like an Amblin project – those movies were always on in my house around Christmas time – and with Law and Banshees of Innisherin’s Kerry Conlon starring, there’s a real chance that this will be some fun, special Star Wars.
Thoughts?
Source: Collider
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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