The latest big Star Wars production for the small screen has been formally presented during D23 and the first good news from Skeleton Crew is that what was shown does not look anything like The Acolyte. What has caught us by surprise is how much it resembles in almost all of its premises shown The Goonies, the classic by Richard Donner and Steven Spielberg. Of course, the interplanetary scale.
For the record, we knew in advance that actor Jude Law would serve as the hook for the project, playing a still enigmatic Jod Na Nawood. However, the real protagonists will be Four little adventurers in a big messwhich involves adventure, a little bit of mystery and a huge galaxy far, far away in which, as you’ll see, they’ll end up lost.
In Skeleton Crew We see how a group of children who dream of great adventures find themselves involved in a huge problem: after discovering an abandoned Jedi Temple in the forest of their city, they will end up making an unexpected jump into hyperspace that will take them to less friendly corners of the places where they grew up. Will they be able to return in time to resume their classes?
The premise on which this series was built is born from a phrase: “What if we could go wherever we wanted in the entire galaxy?” In the process we are shown a part of the universe Star Wars which is far removed from the Space Opera concept imagined by George Lucas and reminds us more of a possible future for our Earth. One in which, in addition to aliens, legends are told about Jedi knights.
As regards the main group, the very Skeleton CrewDisney will rely on four new faces introducing Wim (played by Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), KB (Kyriana Kratter) and Neel (Robert Timothy Smith). Young talents who seek to offer Disney + that formula coined for decades by The Five o Los Goonies and, more recently, Stranger Things.
However, the project has been placed in firm hands: the series has been created and developed by Jon Watts, to whom we owe the trilogy of Spider-Man by Tom Holland; produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni with Kathleen Kennedy and even Bryce Dallas Howard directing one of the eight episodes of the first season.
In any case, the premiere of Skeleton Crew It will be one of the gifts that Disney + will begin to put under the tree this Christmas: the first two episodes will be released December 3, 2024. A transition series between a complicated year for Star Wars and 2025 will be the year in which fans will have to be won back. Or, at least, their hopes will be restored.
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