Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Gets New Release Date — Watch Latest Trailer
Skeleton Crew, Disney+’s next live-action Star Wars series, will premiere a day earlier than anticipated.
The streamer has announced that the Jude Law vehicle will launch on Monday, Dec. 2 at 9/8c, with its first two episodes. Subsequent episodes will then drop Tuesdays at 9 pm ET, beginning Dec. 10.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew — which was first teased back in May 2022 and hails from Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts and Spider-Man: Homecoming writer Chris Ford — stars two-time Academy Award nominee Law and is set during the post-Return of the Jedi reconstruction following the Empire’s demise (that is, the same timeframe as The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka).
Specifically, Skeleton Crew follows the journey of four kids who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly safe home planet, then get lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy, crossing paths with the likes of Jod Na Nawood, the mysterious character played by Law. “Finding their way home — and meeting unlikely allies and enemies — will be a greater adventure than they ever imagined,” says the official synopsis.
In addition to Law, the cast includes Academy Award nominee Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Ravi Cabot-Conyers (#BlackAF), Ryan Kiera Armstrong (American Horror Story: Double Feature), Kyriana Kratter (BUNK’D), Tunde Adebimpe (The Girlfriend Experience), Nick Frost (The Nevers) and Robert Timothy Smith.
Taking turns directing the live-action Star Wars series’ directors are Watts, The Daniels (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Bryce Dallas Howard (The Mandalorian), David Lowery (The Green Knight), Jake Scherier (Lodge 49, BEEF) and Lee Isaac Chung (Minari, The Mandalorian).
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Ok, so someone inputted “Star Wars, Goonies, ET, plus a touch of Never Ending Story” into an AI platform and then requested a pilot script?
Nah, they probably just wrote it.
Fun to see a live action Star Wars concept that is clearly aimed at younger audiences. That hasn’t happened since the Ewok Adventure TV movies in the mid-80s! (Which I promise are totally real and not as awful as you might assume)
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That universe is big enough to tell all kinds of different stories, and I love to see them thinking outside of the “Skywalker-Saga epic space opera” box.
I agree Ewok Adventures wasn’t as awful as people might assume……. it was A LOT WORSE.
I’m just saying that it wasn’t the Holiday Special.
Remember “The Droids” Saturday Morning cartoon?
To me it’s a shame that Star Wars fanbase is so divided over the current state of play of the franchise. Both sides are absolutely right in what they say(in terms of their right to opinions as they’re all fans at the end of the day and love the franchise dearly), but we need something that will bring everyone back together and on the same page.
I feel like the main problem is people clinging so aggressively to the notion that every new Star Wars project needs to be “THEIR” Star Wars. I think the franchise can be a lot of different things, and not all of those things will appeal to every fan. Like, I am a big fan of pizza, but there are pizza combinations that I don’t find appealing, and that’s totally fine, because there’s probably somebody else out there who loves them.
You’re of course right. There doesn’t need to be division. There a lots of good stories that can be told in the galaxy far, far away. I will also say this however… I saw Star Wars at the drive-in movie theatre in Winnipeg in the summer of 1977 as a child. That makes me a first generation fan. Anyone who can’t say they’ve seen episodes 4, 5 and 6 in a movie theatre when they first came out is not a first generation fan and sorry, their opinion weighs less. Sorry but that’s how it is for many people. Seniority matters.
Arbitrary gatekeeping like this is another part of the problem. Once you have seen a movie, your opinions on it are just as valid as anyone else’s. If you haven’t seen it at all, that’s a different story; but if you insist the when and where actually matters, that’s just being pretentious and divisive.
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It’s as absurd as me saying that your opinion on Star Wars counts less because you saw it in Canada instead of in the U.S., where it was made. Or because you saw it at a janky drive-in, instead of in a proper theater with surround sound, as it was intended.
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We’ve all seen the same movie. Being an older fan doesn’t make you a better fan. And if your brand of fandom is based in driving away other potential fans, then I’d argue you are a worse one.
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There is a difference between new stories and at least paying homage to what came before. Even though the original trilogy had its flaws, it was pretty cohesive to lay the groundwork. Episodes 1-3 had way more issues – Jake Lloyd (Skywalker should have been older in TPM) Jar Jar and the Gungans (stereotypical) Midiclorians (leave the force a mystery, not some parasite that lives in people) and 7-9 which disregarded everything before it and really turned off the fans. I think dismissing Heir to the Empire was a mistake and they should have gone that route giving Tim Zhan some credit.
In the shows and moves since, they have been hit or miss. Rogue One was really good. I really enjoyed Rebels and Ashoka. Mandalorian I liked, Boba Fett I could have passed on. Obi Wan was okay, but enough between that, by the time Andor and Acolyte came along I didn’t mind if I started missing a series or 2. Not that there was oversaturation, it’s just that the stories became less and less compelling. And I think that’s all anyone wants is compelling stories that add to the mythology, not try to change or reinvent the wheel for modern times.
In terms of Science Fiction, if it isn’t Star Trek, then it isn’t worth it.